For those who do not recall, Promote My Site is the “Social Media Management Products Company” that received negative publicity as a result of my post Confessions of A Banned Digger. Yesterday I received the following email from them:
Don Draper” redacted@gmail.com>
To:
brian.cuban@dallasmavs.com
Cc:
“‘Oliver Taco’” <redacted@gmail.com>
Hi Brian
Thanks for the link in yesterday’s blog post, but we’re
shutting down the bot aspects of Promote-My-Site. The full explanation is
here: http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/258-Digg-is-on-a-Banning-Rampage.html
The PMS Social Suite is going to have a much broader focus
on finding content to submit across several social networks and finding the
right friends. It’s a better value proposition for more users and
doesn’t involve the hassle of a constant arms race with Digg. Our
thinking is that by zealously attacking script usage, Digg is changing the
ecosystem and creating other opportunities. If the people at the top stop
using scripts, the need for bots goes away.
Here’s a story you might want to cover: http://humanorbot.com/ Pretty amazing
stats on how the Top Diggers are still blind digging among their mutual
friends. Probably the most buried submission in the history of Digg, but
it has had excellent traffic from Stumbleupon.
There you have it. The Digg community has spoken resulting in the shut down of at least the Bot aspects of this company. I do not know if they were making money but it is still a pretty powerful statement about the power of Digg.
September 25th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
To be clear, the PMS Social Suite is still very much alive. The only bot aspect of it was an option under a single tab named “Manage Shouts” which is going away. There’s really no point to it anymore. All of the friend management and analysis will still be there, which is where the real value is now.
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September 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I’m one of the people who just got banned from Digg. I had no bot no nothing i just dugg and shared stories with my friends (and i think Brian can confirm that). I think if you digg more than 2-3 stories / day you start to be considered a bot… Anyhow, i don’t care. There are other ways to promote a website, but is pity for all the time i spent on digg
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September 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Digg is guarding themselves now, but will they turn into a RIAA if they don’t calm down on people like diggboss?
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