Running a blog is hard, I thought I’d have everything to talk about but I guess that I was wrong, mostly because many of the topics I’ve encountered don’t seem blog worthy or I have not experienced the service enough to blog on the issue alone. I know that I shouldn’t complain but I mostly thought that it would be easy sailing, guess not, guess nothing’s going on at the time. Anyways, people these days seem to be making a lot of mistakes and acting out recently, as is the norm for a lot of stories out there on Digg or whatever, and as my job of 1 out of trillions of bloggers around the world. I must write up opinions on these issues so that they may have some chance of being heard by the masses. As with the issue over at Digg over someone who discovered that the auto-bury exists over someone who had some issues, issues which are present in an anti-digg blog that he created after he had “enough” of Digg and wanted to blog about how bad Digg can apparently be.

This revolved over an auto-bury feature being discovered after Mike Venon, the person formally known as nitmeh3, acted out on Digg after he noticed that his submissions were being automatically buried (full story here). Then it was discovered that he had 3 blocked accounts before and to apparently prevent any damage to the Digg community, his posts were being buried. I don’t get how this works exactly considering that he might be reforming himself, if anyone knows how this works, comment below! So after talking to a few of his Digg friends, who were trying to give helpful advice but instead he decided to let his anger take over and sent an obscene message requesting him to ban him, which they delightfully did. They also offered to reactivate his account should he choose to calm down or discover that he was acting foolish all along. I know that some of you remember that I might of acted stupid, angry and blind a lot of the time but as a guy who’s blogging about this situation, I have a lot to say about him.

First of all, getting banned from Digg 3 times was very stupid, I don’t know what he did (go out on some user, go out on Digg, or break the ToS), but attempting to come back means even more trouble if you got banned previously. Seriously, if you’ve been given 3 chances to fix your behavior or learn from what you did and you break those 3 chances then that means you’re probably not going to learn your previous mistakes or you have some serious issues going on down there. Even though this guy has been given restrictive terms (IE, not being able to digg upcoming stories and not being able to be featured on the front page) but still, he’s angry because he’s unable to cope to the restrictive terms of his 4th chance to be a member on Digg and even after talking with many of his fellow Digg users, with many of them telling them to just “Let it go, it’s nothing major, who cares if you’re on the front page.” but unfortunately he decided to let his anger get in the way and as fate would have it, he acted very childish.

Also he’s doing a very, very, very stupid thing. Instead of realizing that the way he might of been acting might of been a sign that he needed to change. He sort of developed his own views against Digg and has created what he calls the “Digg Ban Rampage”, a sort of unnecessary uprising against the evilness of Digg and their “overmoderation” of users. I’ve been on the site for a while and I have not felt someone telling me what to do or forcing my words to be altered in a way that wouldn’t offend anyone. Mostly this restriction is mainly in their heads, unless I encounter some sort of “overmoderation” then I think they’re crazy, seriously. Their gaming the system in a fruitless attempt to get Digg to notice them and to get their vengeance for being “wrongly” banned and to make Digg users realize that Digg is not really what it seems. Also they posted a really ineligible but readable image that was obviously made in paint. It’s obviously NSFW but it contains a very crude message about sticking something inside the rears of Digg moderators.

Look, the only way that you can bring change is if many of you email Digg support, email Kevin Rose, just show your general support. Not by doing this, not by doing what they’re doing currently. I think that Digg’s staff would treat you better if you acted better or acted appropriately or better yet, if you just would of not gotten in trouble at all. Because if you constantly get in trouble then they might stop treating you a bit seriously and treat you like a user who might get into trouble again, and that might be very, very bad for Digg. That goes for the users who are even on the rampage, you’re not getting anywhere. You are going to disrupt the experience for many established users, you might even drive away new users who’ll think that Digg is a bad place to go due to the fact that they think they can’t control their users. I assure you this is not the way to go, this will just end in pity and you’ll be digging a deeper hole for yourself then the one you are currently in.

Seriously, I hope that this issue dissolves and everyone can live happily ever after. These guys seriously need some help getting outside to the real world or just need some counseling and some seriously needed punishment. The fact that they’re going to game the system just because these guys got in trouble is inexcusable, gaming the system just to get the message across. Whatever message that is, it’s bad, it’s unnecessary and it could of been spread if the users would of been following the Terms of Service and it’s also an example that people should learn from their past mistakes. I wish them the best of luck at seeking help or a local physiologist to help them get their life back in shape and make them realize that what they’ve been doing is wrong. Also I’m still taking that break and also I’m not dead as my Twitter stream suggests, no. Merely I’m doing the same thing Megan is currently doing. Sad to see her show ending but hey, it’s her decision, she needs more time with the kids. In the meantime, I’ll break my twitter-silence eventually, just keep on watching.

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