After seeing complaints posted at the forevergeek.com blog complaining of suspicious mass-promoting of stories and its banning from Digg, site creator Kevin Rose addressed them in his Digg the Blog.
Earlier today, ForeverGeek responded first by noting the use of some type of automated method to Digg stories using apparently valid accounts. "This is a violation of our terms of service and the accounts have since been banned," he wrote.
As to Forever Geek's banning, Rose claimed its stories were the focus of a little gamesmanship too:
Aside from the dozens of user reports, several accounts were created to artificially inflate the digg count of their stories. When a single URL hits a threshold of reports, our standard procedure is to block that URL from submission (spam control). Again, mass fraud digging is in violation of our terms of service.
Rose also said that he reads lots of stories on Digg and votes for ones he likes, which is why he had a Digg in one of the stories in question.
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