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Thu, Mar 27, 2008

[Icon][Icon]So long, digg

• Post categories: Omni, Technology, My Life, Helpful

Yup. 30,000 hits yesterday. And that's not counting the multitudes that couldn't even access the page because the server had melted.

And it was the same page that's been dugg at least 3 times before, so it's not like there was anything new.

So. Stuff it. I've blocked Digg. I did it the simple way: Through an .htaccess file.

B2evolution, which is what powers this blog, has a .htaccess file in its main directory. Your blog or website will quite likely have one too.

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} digg\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

So I put that little lot into it. And now, if you go to the digg page that caused all the trouble and try to follow the link, you'll get a 403 error.

If you try to access the web page directly, you'll get the page no problem. So a Digg user who really wants to get to the page can do so easily, but not with a simple click as was the case before. Hopefully, that'll be enough. If not, I'll set it up to redirect to a much less CPU-intensive page.

That says "Bugger off" [Smiley]

4 comments

Hari
Comment from: Hari [Member] · http://harishankar.org/blog/
If I were you, I'd leave a very rude message along with the 403 error message. :p
28/03/08 @ 04:04
Andrew
Comment from: Andrew [Visitor] Email · http://www.andrewsteinhome.com
You should link to the Google cache of the article, perhaps.
28/03/08 @ 13:08
Ray
Comment from: Ray [Visitor] Email · http://lostaddress.org
Shame you can't make the page the Digg links links to link back to the Digg page and leave the clickers in a never ending circle :)
29/03/08 @ 10:56
oneandoneis2
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
I could link them back to Digg.. or to a cache or whatever.. but that'd be more effort than I can really be bothered to make right now :)
29/03/08 @ 20:55

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