Promote-My-Site Shutting Down Digg Bots.

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:


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.

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