On Social Bookmarking Ethics
I have been using Digg now for a good few weeks, I had been a regular visitor before hand but I hadn’t start digging and submitting content until a few weeks ago. I just thought I would comment on a few different points that I have noticed in this period of time.
- Spam - Some website owners will stop at nothing to try and get some traffic, I have seen some users submit practically every page of their blog, even when their blog contains old or, to put it bluntly, rubbish content. Some examples I have seen in the programming section of Digg are “How to code in HTML” and some appalling sites talking about increasing your page rank.
- Incorrect topics - I don’t care how cheap I can buy mothers day presents for, why is it in the programming section!?!?
- Bad Spelling and Grammar - Seriously, if you are going to take time writing decent content, take some time out to spell check it and do some proof reading.
- Advertising - There is the odd submission that obviously has no purpose other than to try and drive you to the site so you can buy or use the service, just get this one thing sorted - you will not get onto the front page and everyone will digg you down, so don’t even try.
Thats it, hopefully a few people will listen……yeah I don’t believe they will either.