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More than 50 Digg users banned - again!

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

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…

50 digg users banned again

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.

Can’t Digg but the account still alive

Friday, September 19th, 2008
Today I felt like digging and I did. I dugged all my friends submissions and many other stuff. And then the cowboy window popped out, asking me to slow down. I continued to digg stories and after a while again … easy cowboy window.
And now… hmmm… I can’t digg. Account is still alive (and I hope it will stay that way) but I can’t digg stories. I sumbitmed two new stories and they both got 0 diggs, which only means one thing - Digg blocked me digging. … For how long? :(

Is anyone else here with similar experience?

I did digg more than I do usually, but wasn’t using any scripts or whatsoever… Never, OK??? So, this time Digg really has no basics to ban me. Once more, I wasn’t using any scripts, so Digg, do not ban me, all right?

Heads are rolling on Digg.com ..

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

.. 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!

Can you learn foreign language in 40 hours?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Have you ever heard of speed learning? No? Read about this.

This method was supposedly “invented” by Mengele. Don’t know Mengele? Oh, well I am sure you heard about Adolf Hitler, and Mengele was Hitler’s brain. Get the idea? Mengele was Nazi doctor who was after the WW II transported to USA to develop ideas that was “worthy” to develop. And speed learning by this method sure was. Well, to be honest, I am not really sure if Mengele was the one who invented the concept, but surely he was the one who re-invented it. Enough about Mengele. He has done enough harm. Later on, NASA used this method when training astronauts.

Ok, it all started in 1924. Dr. Hans Berger was the first scientist who recorded the electrical brainwaves in humans. He named them Alpha rhythms (8 to 12 cycles per second); Beta brainwave rhythms (13 to 30 cps Hertz - Hz); Delta rhythms 0.05 to 3 cps (Hz) and Theta brainwave rhythms (4 to 7 cps Hz).

To put it more clear, people live in Beta consciousness 16 hours daily – it is alert activity with our left hemisphere dominating our brain. When you close your eyes and relax for one-minute, your brainwaves morph into Alpha cycles per second (Hz), an altered state of consciousness. It releases chronic stress through alert relaxation and often leads to creative intuition. This is the state when speed learning is possible.

Method is totally controlled by certain machines, that monitor your heart beat, depth of breathing etc. Of course you are attached to this diodes (looks like you just woke up in Matrix) through which your body functions are controlled in order for speed learning to be successful.

Specialists say it is possible to learn foreign language by this method in 40 to 80 hours. It is also true that the week after the training you don’t “feel” as you learned anything, since the knowledge must “settle down”. That means the optimal timing would be one or two moths after the training: the words just come up from “somewhere behind”, from unconscious mind.

Want to know something from (almost) first hand? My boss says it works!
I don’t really believe him, because at all my naughty English questions (as you may notice from this article, English is not my native language) and blushes and answers: “yes, yes… “. Hmmm… after spending 2500 euros for 40 hour class, all you can say is “yes, yes”. Really worth it???
Ok, I’ll wait another month or two and then ask him couple more questions. Maybe “the knowledge” will settle down.

I drive a BMW therefore I can park wherever I choose

Friday, July 11th, 2008

We are all in hurry, we don’t have time to walk for a minute or two, but obviously BMW drivers are more important and have less time than anybody else.

Propaganda controls Your actions

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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…