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The *Real* Reason Digg and Reddit Are In Trouble

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

There’s a problem with Reddit and Digg, but it’s not what you’ve been hearing. It’s not the spammers, and it’s not the voting systems. The real issue is that people don’t know the difference between legitimate promoting of o ... Continue reading »

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  • Spot on
  • You make an excelent point. I always though that posting links of your own content was wrong, but now you have completely changed my mind. It is definatly a practice that should not be abused, but the beauty of these services is that if you are posting shit it will be burried anyway. By your definision of "blogspamming" (which I 100% agree with) these ppl are just comiting plagiarism and if cought should be banned from the community.
  • This all makes complete sense. I am new to digg/reddit and I would have thought original content would be the only thing people want to see. Why bother with a yahoo re-post of a news story I read anyway?

    P.S. As a new viewer of digg/reddit but a longtime blogger, I think reddit is better. People have posted my stuff on here and it gets seen ... on digg it is seen for 5 minutes and then gets washed away by new posts or those guys who have the super-powered ability to get noticed.
  • I say you're right on the mark there. But unfortunately the vast majority of people are idiots, so don't expect anyhting to change.
  • Indeed, the post was pretty much buried on Digg and Reddit. LOL
  • You are absolutely right. Next question: Is any website doing waht you propose to be done (and we all find reasonable)?

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