Thank you for the response, Unfortunately I am quite baffled. I reread your TOS again including the part you mentioned. to advertise to, or solicit, any user to buy or sell any products or services. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without their prior explicit consent; I am quite curious as to what your definition of “to advertising to any user” as about 95% of the blogs that make the front page do just this, advertising to the visitor. It’s how the bloggers support themselves and allows them to do insightful reporting and commentary. I am an artist that takes three months of out of the year to research and craft the graph depicted on my website. Nobody pays me for my time, which is several hundred hours. I do it because I believe we should have an open democracy and our taxes and what the government does with them should not be locked up in thousands of pages of budget documentation. I try to bring this to light in an easy to understand infographic. Yes, I sell posters of that infographic. It supports the endeavor as any artist hopes to sell copies of their work. Is that a violation of your TOS? An artist selling copies of their work? If so, then there are quite a few other front pages stories you should take a look at. It’s quite disparaging to me that there are companies that create viral advertisements designed to spread through social media and Digg is a huge facilitator of the spreading of these ads, which no recourse to the advertiser. Yet here I am, an artist who advocates an open democracy and somehow, my art and website are a violation of your TOS. You would think our shared goals of citizen empowerment would not be so opposed. I do not hawk loan offers, ring tones, or t-shirts. I sell a poster which depicts the discretionary budget of the United States. I am a one man operation and sales of the poster supports my family. My mother does all the rolling and shipping of posters. We all know that digg users don’t buy anything as is evidenced by their extremely low conversion rate, but I rely on digg, and the democratization of the news selection process to get the word out about my work and poster, (or the democratization of the federal budget and government oversight.) My customers and supporters include CEO’s and visionaries of major technology companies that the digg community idolizes. They also include senior government officials and hundreds of university professors and school teachers. Hardly the type of crowd that would associate themselves with spam. So you can see why I am baffled by the banning of my domain. Is there a particular aspect of my website, (http://www.wallstats.com) and the links that have been submitted and rejected, (http://www.wallstats.com/poster/) that rub your TOS the wrong way? If so please let me know so I can get a better understanding of how you apply your TOS, as it seems pretty loose and fast. I have been on Digg for almost two years and my content has garnered over 8,000 diggs without issue. I am sure there is a way that we can resolve this misunderstanding and I look forward to your response, Cheers,

Jess