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That's ridiculous and only shows how the Digg/Reddit model is absolutely outdated. You can't spam Twitter or Facebook by promoting your legit publication there but you can on "frontpage metapohor" sites like Digg/Reddit simply by encouraging people to vote. The stream is the better metaphor on the Web that's why the last remaining social news site will also die soon.
To be fair, the banned individual worked for The Atlantic and was literally posting every link to Reddit. I would argue that you can spam Twitter and Facebook if you promote only your own content 24/7 and never provide any other benefit for your followers. Also, I have a hard time seeing Reddit disappear, unless they start making stark changes as Digg once attempted.
How many people "literally post every link" to Twitter, Facebook etc. ? IMHO almost everyone. Still nobody gets banned for that.
But there's fundamental differences between Facebook/Twitter and Reddit. On Facebook and Twitter, it's your page that you're posting links to, so why would you be banned? On Reddit, it's a public playground and you have to adhere to the rules, which they violated and were banned for it.
But this very site we are using is the same as the Digg/Reddit model. And despite the presence of Facebook and Twitter, we are still here. So I strongly disagree the model is outdated. I think currated content has a lot to offer in the future.
Yeah, Thomas, I think niche social news sites can work with this older model unlike one size fits all sites like Digg/Reddit. Curated content is the future, but the frontpage is the past. There is no frontpage on the Web. It's copying print on the Web. Reddit just survived longer because Digg failed earlier and people moved to Reddit the Digg failure started the same with bans etc.