I must admit that the whole “Digg” thing has never really been something I “got”. Only recently when we opened up The Web Squeeze and I started writing again have I started to use it to expose our articles to the people of the internet that don’t know of us yet. It’s a really great tool for that not only for us to get more traffic and readership but also to find other really great articles from sites that I haven’t encountered yet. My blog tag in my delicious account has grown quite a bit in the past few months because of Digg and that’s very cool.
Allthough, I’m not sure if it’s something new or it’s been happening for quite some time but I’ve been finding alot of SPAM is being submitted to Digg. Things like 3 submissions for one Web Design company. It’s accepted only because the url is slightly different (displaying .net, .com and .something else). Or 10 submission for themes that could easily have been condensed into 1 submission sending it to a main theme page.
I find it’s starting to be really hard to find good entries nowadays and that’s very sad. What was once a really great resource is falling in the spam cracks.
So what’s going on?! Maybe I’m naïve but when I submit something I always triple-check to make sure it wasn’t submitted before and that it’s something of value. My trips to Digg have slowed down quite a bit since I noticed this lately. Instead, I find myself registering and going to these wonderful places:
These last three links have a “Community News” section where you can submit your article or tutorial sort of like Digg and Design Float but what makes them even nicer is that the submissions are monitored either by being approved before posting or removed my an appointed moderator. Now that’s nice!
Tags: digg, inspiration, social network, spam
When I open a new site I always submit it to digg.
I am a Spammer lol, not really.
Simon
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