Here’s how it went down:

Yesterday I posted the 2008 Election Merchandise article here.  There was a lot of thought and work behind that post as I wanted it to be my first really good blog post.  I was quite proud of myself and said “hey I bet I could put this on Digg with something about Ron Paul in the title and it might do ok”.  So I went over to Digg and submitted the story as “Buy a Ron Paul Maternity T-Shirt!”  Afterwards I posted the link to the story in IRC and on my Pownce page.  The story got 6 diggs, and a few comments before the end of the night.  I thought hey cool this is turning out perfect.

I wake up the next day, my story is gone, and I see this:

I have no clue what happened.  I have a few theories. Maybe they don’t like you linking to your digg stories like I did on pownce.  They may have thought the title of the story was misleading.  Maybe people just marked it as spam and the system automatically cut me out.  Either way I really don’t think I did anything wrong, so I’m obviously very confused.

I guess it doesn’t really matter, I can still read stories, and that’s what I really like using the site for.  Besides if I ever do write something worth digging you guys will submit the story for me right?

Feel free to post conspiracy theories in the comments.

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