Digg Cracks Down On Trolls - Onetimer Troll Defeated

UPDATE: Onetimer has been reinstated, meaning that his banning only lasted a couple of hours.


Early this morning Digg finally took action to clean up Digg and eliminate the rampant death threats. Libertyth0r's heroic efforts to slay the trolls JCM267 and Onetimer weren't without casualties however. In the process of hunting and exposing the trolls that were responsible for the death threats against Kevin Rose, he was banned as well.

Check out the links below! You will be sent to the google search page, so that you may click on them and see that they have been banned:

Onetimer: Suspected of self-trolling and the slough of death threats against Kevin Rose

JCM267: Onetimer's Sidekick previously exposed by Trollhunters.org

JCM267's Profile on Trollhunters.org

Libertyth0r: Person banned in the process of exposing Digg's worst trolls

Libertyth0r's bombshell submission that led to the nixing of JCM267 and Onetimer

Kevin Rose Repeatedly Receives Death Threats on Digg

I am writing this to make a call for better comment moderation on Digg. There is no reason why death threats should be allowed to remain for more than 5 minutes on any given Digg front page story. Even death threats against Kevin Rose have stayed on for around an hour.

How much effort would it really cost Digg to have a few people constantly monitoring the comments on the front page to promptly remove racist tirades and death threats? Below are some examples. Note that some lasted long enough to be spidered by comment stalkers. Check out the link to the comments that managed to get less than -50.




Kevin Rose Digg Townhall Death Threats

Kevin Rose + Onetimer Death Threats

Google Cache of One Kevin Rose Townhall Death Threat

A Death Threat With Less Than -50 Diggs