Digg – Another One Bites The Dust
I really don’t understand the appeal of Digg, and why it’s talked about so much as being an enormous help to build web traffic to blog sites. Of all the social networking sites I participate in, I have to say that I’m just not diggin’ Digg at all.
Case in point: Just a little while ago, I was trying to help another blogger build web traffic to a Blog Carnival that will allow up to 5 post submissions for a single carnival, called “Soup to Nuts“. I took the time to submit it to Blogging Zoom, Stumble Upon, and then thought I’d throw in Digg for good measure. Geez, trying to submit anything to Digg is a virtual obstacle course, having to figure out what “Topic” to choose in order to give it the most appropriate and targeted web traffic. Check out this Digg screenshot and someone please tell me, What “Topic” would you choose to bring attention and build web traffic to a Blog Carnival?
Before I would ever consider becoming actively involved with using Digg, they’ve got a lot of work to do to make the Topic section a bit easier to navigate.
Come to think of it, what Topic could anyone possibly think of using if they were to consider Digging one of my posts on relationships and parenting children and teens? Being a parent is a lot like an obstacle course in itself, so perhaps you might choose Sports?!
As far I’m concerned, Digg is just another social networking site that I just don’t/won’t bother with. Chalk it up to another one bites the dust. Blogging Zoom, Stumble Upon, Entrecard etc, are exponentially better than Digg.
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I think Digg does it on purpose because they only want tech related sites to be submitted.
Digg users really have their noses high in the air and there actually a system in place to cheat Digg–not to mention that the people who run Digg have been proven to be very shady (they manually prevent certain popular sites from recurring on the front pages).
I hate Digg and I hate the Diggites that run around preaching about how Digg is the greatest.
In my opinion, it’s completely useless and a waste of time.
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Kevin, I will not be using Digg anymore. If they only want techie type stuff, they should have accepted my account or my blog. It’s ridiculous, but I’m not sweatin’ it, there are lots of ways to get traffic, so Digg can go dig themselves a ditch and jump in.
Lin,
i have also been a part of the Digg community for quite some time now. i too have experienced what you did. not int he area of categorizing sites but in the amount of traffic it can allegedly bring. i really can’t “digg it”.
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I can completely agree! Since my Digg account was disabled for no reason and I can’t get a response from them, I have given up on them too.
To many rude people on there also. I can understand the navigation as that was a big pet peeve of mine, but the submissions structure also was a mess, especially since they began allowing images and other junk.
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Jessie and Elliott, thank you for your comments. I really cannot say that I have even submitted more than two posts to Digg since I started this blog. It’s just not user friendly, and I’m fed up with getting tons of “shout outs” from people on Digg who just spam me with their own submissions. Whatever…
thanks for the tip. i just signed up in bloggingzoom. by the way, is there something wrong with Digg? I cannot log in last night and today, and can not even access Digg links as reflected in search engines.
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I find digg a pain too. I much prefer StumbleUpon. I don’t use digg any more. Also they people on digg are usually pretty horrible people for some reason.
@ Elliot
rude is not the proper word – it’s ruthless!
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IMO Digg has gone down hill rolling. Too many topics, adding the image section was a huge no-no and too many pervs are just digging up articles because there is a cute lady in them. Oh, and did I mention that 14-year-olds are not fun to talk to?
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Gary, that is what I’ve found myself when I had looked around on Digg. Just a bunch of nonsense about celebrities and scantily clad girls. What a waste of time that is.
The same people get their stories dugg time and time again because they have so many friends. Digg is horrible, in my opinion.