Badges of Honor
So after yesterday's little recursion hack I've received a few badges of honor that I'm very proud of:
- I've been banned from Digg and the Digg folks don't have the decency to answer my polite email asking for an explanation of my banning. At this point, I consider this to be a badge of honor: if a technical web site bans you for submitting a clever link that demonstrates a well known programming paradigm and harms no one, and the founder of the web site claims to be such a cool hax0r, then your submission revealed something very important: that site is run by fools.
- The reddit folks honored me with a special reddit logo for the day celebrating my never ending recursion between Digg and reddit. I'm probably violating reddit's terms of service by publishing this, but here's a copy of the logo:
- My story was also #1 on reddit yesterday and so I've been awarded a Golden Reddit in recognition. Cool, thanks guys!
- And I guess the reddit guys really liked it because they've offered me a free shirt from their store.
Labels: rants and raves
posted by John Graham-Cumming at 6:59 AM
2 Comments:
Glad you liked it, I'd been trying to come up with a good way to represent your clever hack in 120x40px and it was Steve who suggested it.
Don't worry about having a copy of the logo, we love seeing all the variations posted places -- I think it's pretty clear who it belongs to ;-)
From an email exchange I've had with digg.com support:
The user submitted the same exact story twice in less then 2 minutes time. Digg users emailed us complaining that the user is spamming digg with the same story and off-topic content. It is in violation of our User Conduct
"5.to create or submit unwanted email ("Spam") to any other Digg users
or any URL;"
"7.to submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs,
multi-level marketing schemes, sites/blogs repurposing existing stories
(source hops), or off-topic content;"
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