My beefs with Digg.com
I am fairly fresh in the whole blogging scene, and I already have a problem with digg.com. There are several reasons, and some of the reasons were explained to me on John Chow’s blog entry here.
Basically, what was meant to be a democratic system of targeting spam sites can be abused by a small group of users on Digg that do not like specific posts, and will be buried eventually with a certain amount of votes. And the administration on digg.com’s end, apparantly, does not seem very keen to monitor this situation to prevent innocent guys like John to fall to politics of jealousy.
Another beef I have with digg.com is this : it’s too freakin’ slow sometimes. Because I have the digg.com icons on my blog, sometimes my blog takes too long to load. Not to mention that when the site seems to have too much traffic, I get no pages returning when i try to digg some articles - it just shows me a blank white page with no source code, and yet it says “Done” at the bottom and refuses to move anywhere.
If I find that the whole thing on Digg.com is NOT working out too well, but instead, is slowing my page-load time, I might just get rid of it and rely on other tools to drive traffic to my blog.
Digg users are becoming or perhaps always have been very immature… Of course there are a percentage that are honest and excellent users of Digg, but many of them are truly immature…
Just look at some of the comments to some of the Diggs and you soon realize this…
And another big “beef” that you mention is that it is definitely a clique type of society that Digg has morphed into… I do feel sorry for well meaning, serious, and honest Digg users..
Yup the downside of democracy
yeah its always the few bad apples that ruin it for the rest… always has been, always will be.
Ya let’s see how long i stay with them..