I am an abuser of Tip’d
2008-12-28 0:20:14 | Tags: Alex Jones, ban, blog, Business, Plug-in, tip'd, WordPress, Zemanta | 4 Comments »
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I got a nice email from a Tip’d moderator:
Hello,
This is a friendly warning from your Tipd moderator that your submissions about Zemanta have no value and do not relate to business or finance. Please keep your submissions on topic.
We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that continually use the social news site to promote their own blog with off-topic content. Please note that we will block barnabasnagy.com completely from our system and terminate your account if the submission pattern continues.
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I answered:
Hi
I’m writing about how to make blogging earn revenue and as such any plugin, design, programming related tech news or review I consider something financial related because it is about business. Tell me if I’m wrong but I really believe the 2.0 web post I submitted are consequently business related.
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She responded:
Hi, you clearly do not state that in your 5 submissions from your blog and as such your domain has been banned. Please do not abuse tipd.com for your own self-promotional purposes; at this point, you are not able to use it for your domain.
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I answered:
What is this? The pattern did not continue? I have not submitted any content after you warned me. Why I’m still banned? By the way, you were wrong writing about blocking barnabasnagy.com because I submitted content from barnabasnagy.net 
and again by the way, it’s gonna be a really bad PR if I publish this mail and mess you up for this shameful thing.
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Emailing closed.
Can someone tell me why I’m banned? There is a “Tech” section on Tip’d and there I submitted some articles from this blog. I’m really good at having banned. Is there someone else out there who get continuously get banned except of Alex Jones?
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They banned me for linking to DIY tutorials on my site. Looks like they just ban people’s IP addresses rather than just locking out accounts, which is pretty lame on their part.
They probably just didn’t like the setup on my site regardless of the pertinent material I submitted.
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Barnabas Nagy Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 15:37:28
Whoa! So I’m not the only one. Thanks for sharing. The Tip’d team seem to be super retarded…
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After submitting 2-3 articles to tipd – both related to business, my IP was banned without even a warning! I’m a regular user of digg, stumbleupon, reddit and various other sites and this is the FIRST time this has happened. What’s worse is that there’s not even a warning system in place. I can’t even go to the site because I just get a white screen with “your ip has been banned”.
I emailed Tamar (tip’d moderator) and he said warning users “is not an efficient use of time for moderators”. He refused to unban my IP even after apologizing to him if one of my 2-3 posts submitted were somehow off-topic. I told him I just want to read the site and promise not to submit, he still refused.
Yet their FAQ reads “The Tip’d staff is committed to being an open community, and avoiding the ban first, ask questions later attitude that seems to permeate so many other social media sites.”
Very hypocritical.
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Tom, I hope you read the above comments to realize you’re not alone in being banned. We also have a zero tolerance policy for spam submissions. When a specific member does not read the rules and submits off-topic content, it is evident that they do not have the desire to understand the community before self-promoting (or clearly submitting spam). If your first submission was on-topic, we’d be a lot more accepting to the fact that this was a misstep, but your submissions were all off-topic.
As for why Digg and Reddit don’t ban you, well, it’s also a much larger site and those spam submissions get lost in a sea of noise. Tip’d strives for high quality content throughout the site, including its upcoming queue. We’re much smaller and more niche, and as such, we have more eyeballs on our queue – we strive for quality throughout.
Finally, it is known that we ban users accounts when they disregard our rules. Here’s a relevant piece from March: http://blog.socialmarker.com/social-marker/play-by-the-rules/
Thank you.
Tamar
Tip’d Moderator (and the same moderator who banned Barnabas)
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