Comments on: I am an abuser of Tip’d

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:06:40 +0000

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)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:19:25 +0000

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.

By: Barnabas Nagy

Barnabas Nagy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:37:28 +0000

Whoa! So I’m not the only one. Thanks for sharing. The Tip’d team seem to be super retarded…

By: Anarchology

Anarchology — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:36:54 +0000

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.