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The main reason why I opened an account at Digg was my will to help some fellow webmasters and bloggers. As you all know, Digg is seen as a vital source of traffic by many people. Consequently, I’m often asked to digg various articles.

I don’t take all requests, though. The time-sensitive ones (”Please digg my post within the next 20 minutes!”) are the worst for me, because for some obscure reason I’m never online when such requests are released. Normally I read them a few minutes after the dealine is over, so I always feel bad for not having been able to help.

There are also other reasons why I may say “no” when someone asks me to digg their stuff. But the truth is that there have been many requests which I have declined although I could have perfectly taken them. The problem here is that I’m really not a Digg fan, therefore I avoid visiting that site. To be more specific, I don’t like its community. And considering that it’s a social site, i. e., a site (supposedly) driven by its community, I think that’s a very serious issue. I don’t foresee any possibility to overcome my ill-will towards it in the near future. I just can’t stand all that childishness and rudeness. When I visit Digg, I spend most of my time burying the silly comments I find over there, instead of searching for interesting headlines. It tells a lot on my feelings about most diggers.

I know, I know, there are some cool people at Digg too. However, they seem to be… well, buried among the not so cool ones.

This post is my entry for Vivien’s group writing project on Digg and Reddit.

Not a lot of people are comfortable with online marketing. They seldom keep a check on web development around them too. This is why in spite of advertising seo doesn’t work. Many don’t go beyond domain names.

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