111I My Dearest Digg Friends and Fans
this: http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/12/26/111i-my-dearest-digg-friends-and-fans/
digg: http://digg.com/people/An_Ode_to_a_Banished_Digg_Character
Before we get to the letters written to digg.com friends and fans, I must rise to a point of order and bear witness to a rude and disrespectful digger who shouts repeatedly concerning her posts. Surely in the words of digg etiquette there must exist an etiquette rule concerning such behavior.
Please help me in setting one living digger onto the straight and narrow concerning the trade-offs between Freedom of the Press, as permitted by digg.com policy, versus bad behavior.
The undeniable evidence of this digger’s [http://digg.com/users/powerdigger007] rude and disrespectful self promotion is shown below. I have decided to keep her as a friend to give her another change to learn to behave. I have shouted back a direct admonishment so we’ll see if that has any beneficial effect.
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If ever my digg.com behavior is rude or the content I post is lame, I invite other diggers to add commentary and give me shouts to the effect. I am trying to learn how to be an effective member of the digg.com social networking community and I welcome constructive criticism.
I wrote two letters for digg friends and fans that I hope are deemed interesting and worthy of diggs and shouts. I posted them at http://blog.peaceengine.com and created a digg item.
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December 26, 2008
We have together been experiencing the digg game over these last few days of 2008. A game; digg.com is an example, from a cosmic sociological perspective, of a game. For humans like you and me love to play games on computers.
We have together made new heroes, like that TheDataWhore fella who got banned and is destined to be let back into digg.com from a new IP address and under a new name. What motivates a man like dataWhore to invest his game time in digg.com? I read about it at:
[http://aszx.net/how-i-became-a-digg-power-user-with-a-75-popular-ratio.html]
digg: [http://digg.com/people/Digg_user_TheDataWhore_talks_about_his_banning]We have together helped keep a pardoned man in jail, where he belongs. We helped elect a Negro, like Martin Luther King a man of vision, to the Whitehouse. (Author note: the usage of the older form of race designator is intended to honor Dr. King because that term is how he referred to himself.) He (Obama) will realign “We the People” with the “Arc of our Moral Destiny”.
We did these things in 2008.
What now is left to be done?
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December 26, 2008
My dearest digg friends and fans,
As we wait to welcome TheDataWhore back into our midst under a new disguise, reincarnated in a new character, will he seek out his old friends and fans. Or will he seek out new fans.
Here’s an interesting question for the folks seeking to cast out on the digg.com network. And I’d like to ask a favor. First, let me offer you my first patent claimed idea that I’ll gladly give to you if you will do me one little favor.
Here’s the question. Will you hunt down dataWhore’s reincarnated self and kill it too, like you did to good old TheDataWhore? Or will you let old dataWhore in until he misbehaves in some new way?
I guess he could be a she. I could imagine some gal calling herself dataWhore but she’d be confessing her addiction and that would not be a good thing so we’ll go back to the original premise that TheDataWhore is a man.
The one favor I ask is that idea added to the digg Game be GPL licensed in the name of the inventor and the name od digg.com. In the now present case, that is two non-human beings: digg.com and peaceengine.com.
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REFEECTIONS UPON THIS BLOG ENTRY
Title: An Ode to a Banished Digg Character
Text: Ponders the digg.com experience is light of recent events. Admonishes one truly misbehaving digg.com Game Player and admires another–for a true flair for the Art of the Digg Game. Hopefully the first will read about the second and Peace will prevail.
Shout: I’ll appreciate your help with this one. Please Digg and share 
Quotations:
Digg is a nice place for a single human’s multiple personalities to meet one another and become friends.
To be continued. . .
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Thank you for pointing out the irony of the original post. I guess I must plead guilty as charged to that one. That being said, I would never use such a situation to perpetrate a joke. The post was designed to evolve over time as additional pages are added exploring the matter of banishment.
Another letter is written, putting upon the table for discussion the proposition that the digg.com Game ought to evolve a newer set of rules placing banishment and re-admission into the hands of a computer process named “Trial by Jury of Peers”. I believe such a democratic process would shift digg.com towards a less authoritarian governance model and will be to the goodwill and benefit of all concerned.
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December 26, 2008
My dearest friends and fans,
Let us return to the saga of good old TheDateWhore and the question of why he was banned from our social networking community at http://digg.com/ and the Game of digg.com.
There exist many possible motivations for why TheDataWhore was banned. I’ll not speculate too much on motivations because I choose to believe that being banned is a badge of honor for one of the following two game reasons:
1) banned for reverse-engineering of digg.com Game rules
2) banned for repeated bad behaviorI will speculate upon what is wrong with digg.com and what must be done to remedy the situation of bad behavior in an autocratic corporate sponsored social network, namely, THAT all banishment shall be judged by a fair jury of twelve peers and THAT the role of “Seeking Justice” shall be added to the
criteria for burying a post for egregious rude and disrespectful behavior towards other community members.
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December 26, 2008
My dearest TheDataWhore,
I gotta tell ya there friend, your name spoken outloud kinda dries up my mouth when I hear it. This is because it contains the spoken word “whore” which is a word seldom appreciated in polite company.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that you might have been banned you were using a name not given to you by your family a name containing a naughty word. At least I find such a premise plausible.
One plausible alternative explanation for your banishment springs to mind. Suppose digg.com banishes anyone who reports on reverse-engineering speculations. This might make sense from a patent perspective.
A fun explanation would be that digg.com is some kind of Game and your banishment may have been because you were too good a player. I know this sounds like flattery but I hope banishment for being too good might become a reality.
BTW. Be sure to change your IP address and your computer MAC address to avoid re-detection.
Good luck.
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