Space.com Banned from Digg?

Looks like it.

I just saw a pretty humorous article: Florida Restaurant Holds Benefit for Astronaut Lisa Nowak and I was going to submit it to Digg (in the Offbeat News not the Space section) mainly because I couldn’t believe that this restaurant couldn’t find a better person or cause to hold a benefit for.

So I went to submit it:

Then I got the infamous banned message:

This was quite surprising because Space.com would definitely be considered a trusted, authority site. They have certainly had a lot of exposure on Digg and many homepage stories with one as recent as two days ago. We covered other sites that have been banned back in December but I would venture to say that Space.com would be at the top of that list in regards to a trusted news source.

So what happened to lead to this banning? Could it be that Digg buttons lead to abuse and possible bannings?

Or is this a temporary glitch? Or did they just not want this stupid story on Digg ?

Update: Someone submitted this story to Digg and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually replied in the comments there that it was a technical glitch and he would get it fixed:

something is screwed up – I’ll check out the reports and have the team take a look in the AM. For now, the www.space.com works (taking the www. out causes it to error)

http://digg.com/world_news/Florida_restaurant_holds_benefit_dinner_for_accused_astronaut

Very nice response there Kevin!