I knew I’d eventually get reprimanded, but was surprised to be complete banned.

I actually really like their, site and would have played by the rules, I just had to know what Netscape homepage traffic would feel like. I’ve gotten on the home page of every known social site, and was actually more impressed with the traffic from Netscape than any other site.

They are switching their site to non social site anyway, so the good times were bound to end eventually.

FYI – The guy who got me banned was a scout named “corey.spring”, who comically had voted for several of my articles previously. I think my name coming up on the top contributors so often set off a red flag. On the otherhand, I had pissed off enough people with my comments that one or more of them was probably reporting all my articles.

The system will never be perfect and I never swallow the West Coast, touchy feely, lets all be a community bullshit. Behind the hippy dippy crapola lies a ruthless business machine whose aims are simply to make money.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, but at least be honest.

I want to be mean and remind them of what happened to that nutscrape browser of theirs :D Oops!

Honestly though – its all a little pathetic, what are they trying to do here, invite some mass gaming onslaught.

If anything they should of looked at whatever it was you were doing that was so objectionable and worked out ways of nullifying.

This heavy handed approach just sucks really and turns them into firefighters rather than fire prevention officers.

Graywolf has already covered this.

I wonder who else has been banned?

I tried to submit this to Netscape, cause I thought it would be fun and just as a test and I got the following:

There were errors in your submission:

* The domain or URL is banned for the following reason: violating Terms of Use

Please correct these errors and click Check My Story to validate.

Looks like your site’s no longer welcome in the club either!

I am active on netscape 2 or 3 times per day – more so on votes and comments. My submissions have been limited. But in 3 months my profile PR was 5.. hehe – thats why I love netscape.

I would have thought multiple accounts would be an issue if they are cross voting which I wasn’t do.

Possibly I submitted too much of my own work, in future I will submit my work on a 1:3 ratio, but I don’t see why that would trigger a ban as the posts were all quality and recieve above the average votes.

I even made the front page a few times.

Lesson learned, now to get stuck back in.

So the question remains why did you get banned, having multiple accounts while strictly speaking against most TOS is also really hard to prove, what if one was your wives the other(s) yours?

our client was banned from Digg once after we inadvertently started chain submitting scraper posts automatically to Digg. Now don’t laugh but we honestly didn’t mean to but hey that’s life.

;-)