Comments on: Blocking Digg Users http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/02/blocking_digg_users/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: giffo http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/02/blocking_digg_users/comment-page-1/#comment-25188 giffo Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:13:18 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2641#comment-25188 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) 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)

]]> By: David http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/02/blocking_digg_users/comment-page-1/#comment-25187 David Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:59:44 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2641#comment-25187 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. 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.

]]> By: John http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/02/blocking_digg_users/comment-page-1/#comment-25186 John Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:38:28 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2641#comment-25186 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. 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.

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