Apparently, Digg is currently undergoing some massive autumn cleanup, because yesterday 86 power users (and still counting) had their accounts banned. You can see a list here. The reason? Using scripts for voting stories. I’ve spoken in the past via IM with some of them and for some I feel sorry, because they were great guys, others just ordinary spammers, that flooded me with a lot of digg requests every day, until I put them on the ignore list.

Anyways, I saw some stories showing up about a possible Digg conspiracy. I think that’s BS. Voting scripts are for lazy ass users, not for serious ones and, to me, it’s obvious that if you’re using one of these, you’re only interested in profiting from Digg and bring no real value to the community.

I’m not a Kevin Rose fan, but this time I’m with Digg. I mean, how can I work a few hours everyday checking out stories and you want to vote 3 times more than me in just a few minutes? It’s just not fair. And, though I never had any experience with it and I’ve heard that Digg support is extremely slow, I really think that accounts banned by mistake will be reinstated. If not, then I’m sure they did something wrong.