The flood gates have opened, the beast has awoken, the penny has dropped, insert whatever you like here. The point is, it seems Digg has finally done the right thing and ‘unbanned’ a whole bunch of domains (including swollenpickles.com) that it had previously black listed. This is good news, but a key question remains unanswered, why were these domains banned in the first place?

Currently the general consensus is that if too many ‘Diggers’ mark a submission as spam, then the originating domain is placed on the list. Too many times though, posts are marked as spam because diggers either a) don’t agree with the points the post raises, or b) are relying on the comments of other diggers to draw a conclusion (or in other words, without even reading the post themselves).

Everyone has a right to an opinion. Whether or not you agree with what someone else writes or not, they still have right to present their views, and the right to be heard. It is a dangerous situation when a vocal minority can use existing systems to bury the things they don’t want to hear, and as a result, have that voice banned from ever speaking again.

Whilst this great ‘unbanning’ event, may be a big step forward, and signal a change in Digg’s policy direction, I would hope that it is not just a one off, designed to subdue the increasingly out spoken anti-Digg movement.