I have been wanting to write this series of articles for a long time. Over the years I have come across very bad code examples and I have always wanted to share them with you guys, kind of in the way of "Watch and DON’T learn" :).

Everything you are about to see in this series is based on my personal experience and completely real, so before we begin I have only one request:

Don’t try this at home!

I used to love using Digg, reading, submitting and digging. But no more! From now on I HATE them. I know Hate is a strong word, but hear me out and understand why I used this strong word.

On Friday the 13th of June I tried to submit one of my articles to Digg and I got the following error message:

This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.

Weird I though to my self, probably just a glitch and right away I wrote an E-Mail to the Digg Support, here it is: