I disagree with your perception of Digg. I think it's a great tool for finding interesting reading material on the Internet. I do agree though that asking others to Digg your article is annoying. Point me to the article itself, not your Digg page. If I like it, I'll Digg it. If not, I won't. Asking me to Digg it usually results in my clicking the Bury button instead.
Jim L
· 1 year ago
Yeah, but how do you really feel? This is similar to Facebook, I don't get it. I can get with it helping keeping people keep in contact with distant friends and relatives, past classmates, whatever. But I don't need to be super poked, smiled at, kissed, waved at, oh snapped and all that BS everyday. Oh, look, if I send one more drink to 5 more friends I can send a new drink. Silly, pointless, childish...I could go on.
I agree wholeheartedly on the Facebook (and other site) annoyances. I block 99% of all application invitations I get (it gets pretty quiet after a while on that front once you've blocked all the popular apps). I disabled pokes and even had the wall disabled for a while, but then found to actually be useful enough to leave on.
This carries over to Digg as well. The way that Digg handles friends leaves a lot to be desired. There's really no benefit to friending a person on Digg other than to spam them with Shouts advertising whatever you want them to Digg up. For this reason, I carefully examine the friend requests I get through Digg. Most that I get show recent activity of friending several hundred people at once and sending the same shout to each of them ("Check out this great story: www.digg.com/some_dumb_story_about_cats")
It's awfully nice of you to continue giving people Diggs, even though you don't like the site. I'll have to remember that you'll give Diggs when asked. ;)
I'm not a big fan of Digg, but it's definitely got some potential. To each his own.
With Digg, you can't force it to the front page. I think you should still make your posts diggable, because there's always that chance of getting traffic from the site, but I wouldn't waste time having my friends Digg stuff for me. Good content reaches Diggs front page. If you have good content then your posts will be dugg.
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· 1 year ago
I know what you mean. It's also annoying when people ask if you'll stumble their articles and whatnot. At least it is for me.
james
· 1 year ago
Im with you on this one buddy annoys the hell out of me
I know this is an April Fool's post, but I do wish people would stop asking me to transcribe the poo. BTW, glad to hear you have gotten yourself an ukelele. The hubby and I use ours for down-home urban hootenannies.
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This carries over to Digg as well. The way that Digg handles friends leaves a lot to be desired. There's really no benefit to friending a person on Digg other than to spam them with Shouts advertising whatever you want them to Digg up. For this reason, I carefully examine the friend requests I get through Digg. Most that I get show recent activity of friending several hundred people at once and sending the same shout to each of them ("Check out this great story: www.digg.com/some_dumb_story_about_cats")
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