StumbleUpon Takes A Lesson From Digg, Starts Banning Users »
Posted By TheAttacks 1 year, 1 month ago in Science & TechnologyNot even two months ago, social news web site Digg.com cleaned house and banned over 80 users for running scripts while on site, including those from Greasemonkey. Digg also banned others for allegedly promoting sites promoting products and services. Now we're getting word that the recommendation engine StumbleUpon may have started a "witchhunt" of their own, banning users of their service for stumbling upon the wrong things. What's worse is that they don't even seem to be responding to emails from the banned users who wanted to know why this happened.
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