This is my fourth or fifth time being banned - awaiting response from the support staff to see what the reason was this time.

Apparently opposing view points in comments are unwelcome, be it from other digg members digging your comments down or the digg support staff automatically banning you without prior notification. It would at least be slightly helpful to send the banned person a notice as to why (s)he was being banned.

The reason why banning people is so impersonal is because there is no public face when dealing with abusive users. It’s almost like doing business deals under the table so the government doesn’t know about it. Only this time, the website users is the government watching over the company, making sure it doesn’t abuse it’s users irrationally.

Surely it would be a great idea to come out with a website similiar to ResellerRatings.com - however, instead of rating online retailers, you rate your personal experience with a website and their “social services”. Maybe then, when these untold stories are made public, these companies will think again before silencing their “abusive” users.

Update

Your account has been banned (again) for trolling comments. Your
account will not be re-instated.

–Digg Support

… to which I responded …

Thanks for being very ambiguous.

Don

I’m not too sure what “trolling” means. Why an online company supposedly worth tens of millions would use such a childish statement is beyond me.

Oh well, at least it’ll give me a chance to get away from them and give reddit, mixx and newsvine a chance. Hopefully one of them support opposing commentary to their mainstream comment base.