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)

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.

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.

Nice article. THX.