Looks like it.
I just saw a pretty humorous article: Florida Restaurant Holds Benefit for Astronaut Lisa Nowak and I was going to submit it to Digg (in the Offbeat News not the Space section) mainly because I couldn’t believe that this restaurant couldn’t find a better person or cause to hold a benefit for.
So I went to submit it:
Then I got the infamous banned message:
This was quite surprising because Space.com would definitely be considered a trusted, authority site. They have certainly had a lot of exposure on Digg and many homepage stories with one as recent as two days ago. We covered other sites that have been banned back in December but I would venture to say that Space.com would be at the top of that list in regards to a trusted news source.
So what happened to lead to this banning? Could it be that Digg buttons lead to abuse and possible bannings?
Or is this a temporary glitch? Or did they just not want this stupid story on Digg 
?
Update: Someone submitted this story to Digg and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually replied in the comments there that it was a technical glitch and he would get it fixed:
something is screwed up – I’ll check out the reports and have the team take a look in the AM. For now, the www.space.com works (taking the www. out causes it to error)
http://digg.com/world_news/Florida_restaurant_holds_benefit_dinner_for_accused_astronaut
Very nice response there Kevin!
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Or it could be that the Digg crowd is just a cliquish bunch of naval-gazing wienerheads. Take your pick.
Its not blocked as I just read the article on digg…It must have already been posted and you didn’t see it.
Travis -
Read the update I posted earlier – it was an internal error that Kevin Rose confirmed (due to no www.) – the article hadn’t been submitted at that time. You also wouldn’t get that error message if the article had already been submitted – it would just bring you to the already submitted story on Digg.
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This is hilarious that they decided to throw this benifit!
Maybe we should call them with some ideas.
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