Digg Gets Spammed - Member Gets Revenge for Getting Banned

[user-7256]

Digg, the popular social bookmarking site with over 105,000 members, has one major problem: Spammers.

Today? Sean Carter, (seancarter222), decided to spam away his little revenge messages as he pleased:

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The "digg spy", allowing users to see - live - what others are reporting and digging, hit an all time record for reports:

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Digg's webmaster is looking for ways to quell the spamming and this offensive "attack" on digg may be incentive for new spam controls and stricter moderation methods.

Digg community users were not pleased with the spam attacks, some commenting likewise offensive things. Many contribute, but most suggest that a "report this user to an admin" link might be necessary for things like this.

Another suggestion arises that if enough stories are reported from a certain user, the user is automatically banned.

Oh, and the sad part is that people actually DIGG his spam

EDIT: THIS IS LIVE! If you go on digg now you can see it happening!

 

[007]

I just checked it out and looks like it's been cleaned up.

I think digg is a great site and it's unfortunate to see things like this happen to it. I hope they can get a stricter system in place to prevent future problems.

 

[user-7256]

Yeah, looks like enough people reported it. Finally.

 

[jstep]

shouldnt be that hard really, just when some gets banned all their diggs get deleted, so just set up a warning link

 

[oliciv]

I am glad you took the time out of your day to bring us this exciting news! What would the internet do without Digg.com? :o

 

[user-7256]

I am glad you took the time out of your day to bring us this exciting news! What would the internet do without Digg.com? :o

Was that sarcasm?