Tag Archives: social bookmarking

For Digg: 5 Simple Ways to Make Sure Your Comments Work for You

It is possible to get a reputation through your comments that can be helpful to you later, even though the comments do get deleted. The trick is to make the right sort of comment often so that they’re visible enough, and then have something else which can help you preserve the community you’re in effect

A Suggestion for My New Right-Wing Pals at Digg

I’ve been sick the last few days and unable to focus on anything, but have been able to periodically drop in on Digg and vote up articles and meet a nice bunch of conservatives I hope will be friends. Right now Digg is quite obviously gripped by election fever. Every article has to do with

A Quick Note: Why Voting On Comments Is Stupid

Voting is the end product of carefully considered opinion. Voicing an opinion on a vote can happen after an election, including an intermediate election to filter out choices. But voting on opinions while a debate is going on in real time? Are you kidding me? The only thing voting is doing in that case is

Social Bookmarking and the Communities It Forms

The comment below was left by me on chrisg.com on a post concerned with what causes some of the nastier behavior at Digg towards bloggers: I don’t know that it is jealousy and ignorance alone. It seems to me forming community has a price, and that more tightly knit communities are going to have common