Wow. What a shame. I am sorry that DIGG has labeled your site and articles as SPAM. Just another reason in my book why I have opted NOT to visit DIGG anymore....
A of M, on the other hand... is an oasis in the web. I don't visit as often as I could, but when I do, I am always glad, and usually inspired, too. Keep up the good/great work!
- Rod
James Cassell
· 1 year ago
yeah, Digg is going to the pits. I've actually started reading slashdot more than digg; the home page of digg is almost entirely spam (huffingtonpost is more worthy to be called spam than AoM)
Ethan Gunderson
· 1 year ago
The digg algorithm for spam is complete bullshit. It only factors in people who call a site spam, once it reaches a certain amount, that's it, your marked as spam. It in no way takes into account diggs or total stories, which I assume is because of people gaming digg. I realize it must be hard to counteract people gaming them, but the current way is broken beyond repair.
Tanner Godarzi
· 1 year ago
That sucks on getting blocked out on Digg, reminds of the auto bury algo Digg had a while ago that despite how much momentum a story had, certain URLs were always buried despite having no user buries mentioned. Happened to my old Blog, never got a response from Digg :(
Glen Stansberry
· 1 year ago
It's funny how sites that have excellent content like AoM are getting banned from Digg because their users are retarded.
Keep up the great work guys. Art of Manliness is one of the premier blogs on the web, and I couldn't be happier that it's a part of LifeRemix.
Robb
· 1 year ago
I have always been floored by the adolescents on Digg. I dropped them an email letting them know what nonsense this is, though I'm older than 13 so I suspect they don't care. Regardless, I will no longer be using Digg. Always liked Slashdot better anyhow! :-)
Kaiser
· 1 year ago
And yet every XKCD comic gets the front page immediately. I think Digg is an unfortunate victim of groupthink, and am thankful for Slashdot's existence and staying power.
Digg did, however, introduce me to AoM, and for this, I am grateful.
bob
· 1 year ago
I don't really mind. It seems to me that this site is the antithesis of digg. This is the one place on the internet that I have found where the comments are actually mature and relate/contribute to the given topic. Digg has gone from a place of lightning fast tech industry news to an immature, biased, 4chan replica. My only regret is that the worthwhile topics discussed on this site will not be read by a group of people who so desperately need to hear them
Hayden Tompkins
· 1 year ago
Punks.
http://theyoungbostons.com/dus
· 1 year ago
Hey sorry to hear about that. This kind of injustice really appeals to a guy. How do you handle injustice? How do you handle it when someone falsely labels you and your efforts at doing something good?
Ian Millard
· 1 year ago
The Digg people: Just another bunch of MF's who think they own the world.
This is, in effect, censorship. And the lowest form of life on the planet is a censor. Lower than critics or child molesters (who theoretically have mental problems) and way lower than lawyers. The censor is a pathetic creature who believes their morals are so superior they can dictate what the rest of us watch or read.
The Art of Manliness is not spam. It is a necessary source of information - especially these days when there are so few intelligent and cultured men (like us) around.
I look forward to receiving the AOM in my inbox. Keep up the good work.
Ian Millard
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Max Laird
· 1 year ago
Hold the phone, Ian. The AoM isn't being censored. It's just considered spam on Digg. Censorship would be if an organized effort to shut down AoM was successful. AoM is still fully available.
I don't understand Digg's problem with this site but, well, it's really their loss.
Max
dMix
· 1 year ago
I believe social media sites get "spammed" by link bait, not so much the traditional type that gets emailed to you.
This site has all the traits of a social-media marketable blog; fortunately it has quality content to back it up.
Tony
· 1 year ago
Max-
It is censorship because Digg won't put AoM back on the site. If people simply marked it as spam and that what that, than that wouldn't be censorship. But for a site to refuse to remove you from the spam list when they know you're not spam, is censorship.
Everyone thinks Digg is democratic in nature-the stories that people like get dugg up while the stories people don't like get buried. But there are human editors who watch behind the scenes and yank off stuff they don't like. "Autobury" is not a myth. They just pull off websites they decide against. It's f-in censorship.
Ian Millard
· 1 year ago
Right on, Tony.
Censorship is: the suppression of speech or the deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.
This certainly qualifies as "deletion of communicative material", and although I don't always agree with what I have read on AoM, none of it has ever been "obscene, vulgar, and/or highly objectionable."
Ian
Dave
· 1 year ago
Honestly, my experience with Digg with my own website has been nothing short of disappointing. Digg seems to be a very childish high school clique where if you are not part of the "in crowd' your stuff gets buried or marked as spam. Because it is based on a voting system where some users are considered more powerful than others it is truly not democratic.
You are better off without Digg in my opinion.
coco the MAN
· 1 year ago
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Digg is a little boys' club made up of non-manly children who are probably frightened by your scary talk of "barber shops", "responsibility", "how to ask a man for his daughter's hand in marriage", and other topics they've never heard of.
Hunter Nuttall
· 1 year ago
Sorry to hear about this, and I definitely don't understand it. How could anyone think AoM is spam?
Ryan
· 1 year ago
Digg is what introduced me to the AoM. It's unfortunate to see this happen. I have contacted Digg regarding this and informed them that I will no longer be using their service as long as this goes uncorrected. Maybe it won't mean anything to them, but it doesn't hurt to try.
Brett
· 1 year ago
@Robb and Ryan-
I appreciate you emailing Digg. Thanks for the support.
Tyler @ Building Camelot
· 1 year ago
That sucks! Like Ryan, I found AoM through Digg and now I'm dedicated fan of your site. Not that I use digg that much, but I wonder what other great site they call "spam" and aren't reaching the right readers.
James Hills
· 1 year ago
Sorry to hear about that, any idea why that happened - i.e. is there a threshold where you can only submit so many articles from the same account for the same site or something like that?
Brett
· 1 year ago
There's not officially a threshold for how many things can be submitted from one site per se, but they do frown on submitting your own stuff excessively. But we never did that. A lot of people right before the ban were submitting old stuff that had already been on digg before so maybe that did tick them off. But we have no control over that. So I'm not sure what happened really. It seemed to happen around the time our post about displaying the flag was on digg, and I suspect that many digg users marked that one as spam.
Brad
· 1 year ago
I found you from digg.com a couple of months ago. Very upset to hear this and will be contacting them in disgust.
Edward
· 1 year ago
That's because there are no MEN in digg :-) just a bunch of kids. they wouldn't even be able to begin to grasp the concept of AofM
Tyler @ Building Camelot
· 1 year ago
Just wanted to let you know that I created a Reddit account just so I could vote for your stuff.
alanocu
· 1 year ago
The 3 top users of Digg have consistently submitted content from this site. Clearly, Digg management did not have the courtesy to look into this, and their decision suggests that their top users are spammers.
Justus
· 1 year ago
Digg is such a joke. I'm outraged by this. I will continue to support theartofmanliness on my own personal blogs and continue to read.
nicknick
· 1 year ago
I came across your site searching for a way to get a site "unspammed" on Digg. This happened to us today also with a site. It is total bullshit. I agree. Your site looks nothing like spam so Digg is crap. They won't create a solid business with this kind of attitude and no appeal process.
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A of M, on the other hand... is an oasis in the web. I don't visit as often as I could, but when I do, I am always glad, and usually inspired, too. Keep up the good/great work!
- Rod
Keep up the great work guys. Art of Manliness is one of the premier blogs on the web, and I couldn't be happier that it's a part of LifeRemix.
Digg did, however, introduce me to AoM, and for this, I am grateful.
This is, in effect, censorship. And the lowest form of life on the planet is a censor. Lower than critics or child molesters (who theoretically have mental problems) and way lower than lawyers.
The censor is a pathetic creature who believes their morals are so superior they can dictate what the rest of us watch or read.
The Art of Manliness is not spam. It is a necessary source of information - especially these days when there are so few intelligent and cultured men (like us) around.
I look forward to receiving the AOM in my inbox. Keep up the good work.
Ian Millard
example of
I don't understand Digg's problem with this site but, well, it's really their loss.
Max
This site has all the traits of a social-media marketable blog; fortunately it has quality content to back it up.
It is censorship because Digg won't put AoM back on the site. If people simply marked it as spam and that what that, than that wouldn't be censorship. But for a site to refuse to remove you from the spam list when they know you're not spam, is censorship.
Everyone thinks Digg is democratic in nature-the stories that people like get dugg up while the stories people don't like get buried. But there are human editors who watch behind the scenes and yank off stuff they don't like. "Autobury" is not a myth. They just pull off websites they decide against. It's f-in censorship.
Censorship is: the suppression of speech or the deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.
This certainly qualifies as "deletion of communicative material", and although I don't always agree with what I have read on AoM, none of it has ever been "obscene, vulgar, and/or highly objectionable."
Ian
You are better off without Digg in my opinion.
I appreciate you emailing Digg. Thanks for the support.