Info Freaking

You may return from a vacation, like optimusprime01 (Away Till End Of October) when something hits you direct in the head -You are banned from Digg, man!

No page profile - the only thing that pops out is announcement: “What you are looking for, isn’t here.”

…. WTH is then, if it isn’t here???!!! WTF is my profile? WTF is my page??? WTF, OMG, … and so on and so on… these and many more thought might storm through your mind….

Just because of one reason (and I think you know): SCRIPT USE!

If you were using scripts, my dear Digg Friend, you shouldn’t be as surprised as one might think. Ban spree on Digg.com is not a fresh news and supposedly Digg.com has no mercy. Or as Kevin Rose put it in one of the videos: “I don’t care whether is top user or the millionth user. If you are using scripts, you will be banned.”

And they were…

I am just wondering: were they banned because they used to use scripts or these users continued to use scripts even after the big fuss on Digg (when top users like DiggBoss, Zaibatsu etc.. were banned). If they did - very brave indeed, my friends!

However, if they used to digg with scripts, but stopped violating Digg TOS, personally I see no reason for banning them.

Then again, I hope they will keep the dignity and not come out with the lamest excuse such as… Oh, I didn’t know using scripts is agains Digg TOS.

Here is the list of 50 and more lucky winners that were banned:

1. abhim12
2. akpwnzz
3. alexander13
4. alllo
5. americanpyscho
6. CassyEli
7. charbarred
8. cosmikdebris
9. Crackerpat
10. craig081785
11. D14BL0
12. DCapps
13. dreams800
14. FamilyGuyFan
15. guerresoanthony
16. HapSnappy
17. hilariobarbosa
18. Inthenameofmine
19. iraq
20. jaybuster
21. jefflombardo
22. jfreshbloomer
23. jordankasteler
24. LewP
25. lordhuggington1
26. MarkusGarvey
27. Mathieugothax
28. mejaredme
29. miriad
30. MissPoker
31. mpind176
32. NeoConSlayer
33. noupe
34. obeezy
35. Odenized
36. optimusprime01
37. PauloAlbini
38. peetys
39. petsheep
40. PMG2007
41. queenmoweeny
42. rtknox00
43. SocialBanner
44. socialuser
45. starfocus03
46. supernova17
47. sweetnothing
48. tamar
49. ToeCracker
50. umarboy
51. WWMD

If you have some more information about who was banned and why, please comment.

.. or it’s just site database issue.

Somewhere between 16:00h and 20:00h (PMT) more than 50 power users were removed from Digg.com. Trying to access their Digg personal profiles leads to server error page. This could mean only two things. Either users have been banned or some kind of technical error occurred.

Quick inspecting on their 48 hours activity shows that they had high level of activity, more than 300 diggs, some of them even 1000+. It’s not clear if users are banned because of their scripts usage or for some other reasons. Maybe some of them will speak out about this massive Digg ban.

It seems that Digg.com continues to upgrade its anti-cheat policies and that cheats tracking system became more sophisticated.

At the moment most diggers with the activity below 10-12 hours are still “alive” but it the following period we’ll see, if the Digg tsunami will continue.

Here is a part of the current “Missing Person” list:
diggboss —–> digg.com/users/diggboss
claybodie —–> digg.com/users/claybodie
cuzzy —–> digg.com/users/cuzzy
klop10 —–> digg.com/users/kloop10
michaelwong38 —–> digg.com/users/michaelwong38
loky —–> digg.com/users/Loky
ksiltd —–> digg.com/users/ksiltd
bgholt1970 —–> digg.com/users/bgholt1970
stephie189 —–> digg.com/users/stephie189
webaddict —–> digg.com/users/webaddict
explicitmemory —–> digg.com/users/explicitmemory
lordhuggington —–> digg.com/users/lordhuggington
kickoff22 —–> digg.com/users/kickoff22
akittenone —–> digg.com/users/akittenone
ArnoldPettibone —–> digg.com/users/ArnoldPettibone
Fangsinmybeard —–> digg.com/users/Fangsinmybeard
akpwnz —–> digg.com/users/akpwnz
superman7018 —–> digg.com/users/superman7018
MasterOfHyrule —–> digg.com/users/MasterOfHyrule
rainfosys —–> digg.com/users/rainfosys
BCCStu —–> digg.com/users/BCCStu
karjosh —–> digg.com/users/karjosh
v666 —–> digg.com/users/v666
ArnoldPettibone —–> digg.com/users/ArnoldPettibone
complicious —–> digg.com/users/complicious
GeorgeCarlin —–> digg.com/users/GeorgeCarlin
theeandrew —–> digg.com/users/theeandrew
Babblin5 —–> digg.com/users/Babblin5
KoolBreeze —–> digg.com/users/KoolBreeze
kianat —–> digg.com/users/kianat
skewl —–> digg.com/users/skewl
BornReady —–> digg.com/users/BornReady
rainfosys —–> digg.com/users/rainfosys
anchalsingh —–> digg.com/users/anchalsingh
DeathWish808 —–> digg.com/users/DeathWish808
broalexinfo —–> digg.com/users/broalexinfo

If you find someone else submit comment. Good luck!

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Do You believe You are in control of Your life? If you think you are, you might be completely wrong!

Propaganda is a sociological phenomenon rather than as something made by certain people for certain purposes. Propaganda exists and thrives. It is Siamese twin of our technological society. Only in the technological society can there be anything of the type and order of magnitude of modern propaganda, which is with us forever. And only with the all-pervading effects that flow from propaganda can the technological society hold itself together and further expand.

Most people are easy pray for propaganda because of their firm but entirely erroneous conviction that it is composed only of lies and “tall stories” and that, conversely, what is true cannot be propaganda. Modern propaganda operates with many different kinds of truth - half truth, limited truth, truth out of context.

A second basic misconception that makes people vulnerable to propaganda is the notion that it serves only to change opinions. That is one of its aims, but limited, subordinate one. Much more importantly,it aims to intensify existing trends, to sharpen and focus them, and, above all, to lead men to action (or when it is directed at immovable opponents, to non-action through terror and discouragement, to prevent them from interfering).

Modern propaganda cannot work without education. Education is “pre-propaganda”, conditioning of minds with vast amounts of incoherent information, already dispensed for ulterior purposes and posing as “facts” and as “education”. Designated intellectuals are virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons:

1. they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information
2. they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information
3. they consider themselves capable of “judging for themselves”

To be continued…