Kool-Aid Drinkers strike back at Zune Info!
It looks like my “Apple Cult: Drinking the Kool-Aid?” and “Apple Cult: Drinking the Kool-Aid? Part 2” articles have angered the iPod fanatics “a.k.a Kool-Aid” drinkers. When I went to submit another article at digg.com by account was removed with all my posts. When I signed up again and tried to submit an article I got this message:
“This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.”
Let me explain to you how digg.com works. People can post terrible news, but if they have a website with 1,000s of members they can all “Digg” an article and move it to the top. The same is true for sites they don’t like. They can group together and report a site as “spam” even if it isn’t and digg will act without even investigating. I really don’t blame Digg.com because it is a popular site and it is impossible for them to investigate all spam. They take that 100s of people have reported it and act.
This once again proves my point about how fanatical Mac users are. They will go to any means to censor Zune users and slam Zune everywhere they go. Read my Kool Aid articles and you will see what I am talking about.
Presumably you have solid proof of this clandestine nefarious activity aimed at you? Looking forward to seeing it!!
Let’s take the events as they happened. I have been submitting to digg.com for 9 months now (not just Zune Info). Within 48 hours of submitting my “Kool Aid” article I was banned. This is also after receiving 100s of comments (only approved a few), some vicious with anger for writing the article. Shortly after these comments appear my article and account are suspended for spam. If you can show me how this article spams anyone, I am all ears.
People are generally clueless how digg.com works. Digg.com is by far the easiest website to manipulate. If you don’t know this, then you know nothing about Digg. If you write an article, you can post it on your site and other sites and ask others to “digg” it, your article can receive hundreds of “diggs” thus promoting your website. There are whole groups dedicated to assisting other digg users even though the content is worthless. The opposite is true as well. You can easily tell hundreds if not thousands of users to click the spam button and get an article removed and/or an account suspended. I am certain that my article was attacked by the Kool Aid drinkers. The funny thing is this proves everything that I said!
Put the pieces together and you will see I was banned shortly after submitting my Kool Aid article to Digg and receiving angry comments from caring Mac/iPod users. Like a Communist state my voice has been silenced on digg.com.
Your article was true, and well written. It is a shame that you got banned for that, as there are may articles on Digg that SHOULD have gotten the user banned. Sadly Digg is mostly populated by Kool-Aid drinkers, and pro-Microsoft stories never/rarely make it on to the homepage.
Try using a free host like byethost.com to host your story, then post it. If Digg blocks specific text, just screenshot the image and post it. :P
Not to mention the owner of Digg, is Kevin Rose. Who as everyone knows is a fanatical mac usser.