Burying Digg

I can't believe Digg deleted my account! Their decision, according to their e-mail, "is final and irreversible." It never stated that they actually had any real evidence of me sending spam, merely that I had been reported by a user to have had sent spam.

I think I am an honest user of the Internet. If you look around at some of the different things I've written you will see a lot of stuff I've written about wanting to see the Web be more than just a place to shop, but to remain and be even more of the immensely valuable tool that it is to so many people. I am no spammer. I get spam and I hate it, so why would I do that to others?

These are the unforgivable things I did to deserve a summary life sentence of banishment from Digg:

• I cut and pasted a two-line signature my comments. The first line was my full name, the second was a hyperlink to my homepage
• I 'dug' a few of my blog posting and some webpages from some of my sites

I never meant them any harm and I never did anything explicitly against their vague and nebulous terms of service that I can honestly tell (I triple-checked). I am hurt by their their willingness to delete my account in such a rudely cavalier fashion and offer me no recourse whatsoever. I have to admit that I still think Digg is a great idea and I'm also saddened to not be allowed to be a part of that anymore for the rest of my life. It's not of much consolation to search around and find out they've done this to many others as well.

There is a part of me that is led to believe by the way it all happened that they think I'll be back tomorrow under a different e-mail and username perhaps, but, unfortunately for them, I am especially angry that I've lost the dozens of favorites I had saved up, to some excellent places on the 'Net, that are now gone forever. I'm really pissed about that.

So I will never be a user of Digg again, my decision "is final and irreversible."