Blocking Digg Users

Tuesday, Feb. 7 2006 | Author: Dave

Nathan Smith of Sonspring.com has decided that Digg users, are not worth the trouble and has begun blocking them from his site.

It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to do this. After being on the front page of Digg.com twice in the last two months (1, 2), I have learned that these are not the type of visitors I want on my site. Let me prefix this explanation by saying I do not have anything against the creators of Digg.

He gives his reasons, and instructions on how to block users coming from Digg. A very good read for those wanting to block users coming from social bookmarking sites, that have no intention on commenting or adding value to the site.

Could this become more commonplace as the Digg user base grows?

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3 Responses for "Blocking Digg Users"

John

February 7th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
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So Digg users have to copy paste links now instead of just clicking. And instead of setting up “turf wars” on the Internet, couldn’t you just make it slightly more difficult to become a member of a site and/or leave comments to get rid of 95% of the random blog spamming? Require e-mail verification before leaving a comment, or even setup the redirect to pass a PHP argument that turns off the commenting and/or registration system if people are coming from an aggregation site. This seems like a short-sighted attempt at fixing the problem of the tyranny of the masses.
David

February 7th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
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I think it has to do with the type of comments being entered. If a mass of people using gigabytes of my bandwidth came to my site, and started legitimately commenting on how crappy things are, and then leaving without clicking one advertisement or affiliate link, then what is the point?

That is the usual type of user from Digg these days, and so I think what he did might have been a smart move, where your notes, don’t really deal with the issue at hand.

Also, the copy/paste link thing is probably one step more than the average digg user would do.
giffo

February 19th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
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Are users expected to click on advertisement links?

can’t people expect to convert digg surfers to regular visitors? im sure it must be better ratio than google ad click-thru(s)