Hey all –

Digg enforces its Terms of Use so that Digg remains a vibrant community of people committed to sharing and discovering great content. Everyone who uses Digg agrees to abide by the TOU, which maintains a positive experience on Digg for all community members by prohibiting spam, porn, gaming, hate speech etc.

In many cases, Digg gives users who violate the TOU a second and sometimes even a third chance. When people continue to violate the TOU, or where a first-time violation is egregious, Digg is reluctantly left with no option but to ban the user.

A couple weeks ago we posted a blog entry regarding script usage, reminding members of the community that it violates the Digg TOU. We also rolled out some changes that warned users when unnatural Digging activity was detected. Since this post, we analyzed our logs on a regular basis to clearly identify script use over an extended period of time.

While we never speak to specific instances of user bans to protect the privacy of individual users, we have banned a small number of users for script use over the past several weeks. Some of them are active users that are well known within the Digg Community. While we’ll sincerely miss the contributions of these individuals and are never happy about playing policeman, we believe that the larger Digg community is adversely impacted by people who choose to violate the TOU.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@digg.com with questions or feedback. We’re continuously researching and investigating this process, so don’t be shy and let us know what you think.

Have a good one,
Jen

Hey all,

We’re growing up so fast…sort of. Today we launched two new official Digg Blogs: Community (this one) and Technology. We’ll still use our main blog for big news and other important announcements, but because we love you and you love us, we thought we’d add a few new sections to keep you in the know.

We leave you with a little glimpse of some of the people here at the Digg offices. We have crooning QA Managers, Product Managers with crabs and a little secret about what really powers the Digg Recommendation Engine. We are calling this video series ‘Safe for Work.’ Hope you like the first installment.

Keep an eye on this space, more to come!

- Jen