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danielmiessler.com | grep understanding: The *Real* Reason Digg and Reddit Are In Trouble

  • Haydn · 3 years ago
    Spot on
  • Yellowbeard · 3 years ago
    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.
  • Cash · 3 years ago
    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.
  • Nils · 3 years ago
    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.
  • Daniel Miessler · 3 years ago
    Indeed, the post was pretty much buried on Digg and Reddit. LOL
  • Nelson Medina · 3 years ago
    You are absolutely right. Next question: Is any website doing waht you propose to be done (and we all find reasonable)?