Digg’s Double Standard on Blogs
February 13th 2007 10:13
There’s a nice buzzword on Digg, it’s called ‘blogspam’.
Blogspam is basically when someone submits a post from his or her own blog to Digg to try and get some extra traffic.
One thing that makes blogspam a legitimate concern is when bloggers just copy and paste content from other sites and use Digg to gain traffic for it. Would be better if we could just see the direct source, not some copy and paste job to get attention.
However Digg’s community has turned into somewhat of a hypocrite, there are some very notable blogs such as TechEBlog and Destructoid that have many submissions on Digg. Even many of the Destructoid submissions used to be made by someone who works on the Destructoid blog.
Those two blogs often make it to the front page on Digg, often for legitimate fresh original content. This is where the blogspam should separate from original content on blogs.
Most recently a post from Destructoid made it to the front page which clearly has all the merits of blogspam. There is a video in it, which is essentially the only content that people clicked in for, that was embedded from Gamevideos. Often times Digg members claim it is blogspam when videos are taken from one source and embedded into a blog (never a website), especially for youtube video’s being embedded. Sure there is some written content on the Destructoid post but it clearly is getting attention for the video which could have been submitted directly from Gamevideos. Hence that is blogspam, why not just submit the video itself?
This is one of the problems with Digg’s community, they are more and more being commercialised and they really don’t care. Either that or they don’t have a fixed set of generally agreed upon rules of what determines blogspam, seems like it is anything from any blog except a certain few such as Destructoid, and no matter what video another blog might post if it embeds videos it will get accused of being blogspam.
I’d go as far as to say that Destructoid would still be nothing if its original submissions were treated as blogspam and the blog banned from Digg. So why keep out other upcoming blogs? Because of blogspam? Often times it isn’t blogspam, it may be a collection of embedded video’s such as a ‘Top Ten Best Robot Videos’ which people accuse of being blogspam for whatever reason.
Blogspam is basically when someone submits a post from his or her own blog to Digg to try and get some extra traffic.
One thing that makes blogspam a legitimate concern is when bloggers just copy and paste content from other sites and use Digg to gain traffic for it. Would be better if we could just see the direct source, not some copy and paste job to get attention.
However Digg’s community has turned into somewhat of a hypocrite, there are some very notable blogs such as TechEBlog and Destructoid that have many submissions on Digg. Even many of the Destructoid submissions used to be made by someone who works on the Destructoid blog.
Those two blogs often make it to the front page on Digg, often for legitimate fresh original content. This is where the blogspam should separate from original content on blogs.
Most recently a post from Destructoid made it to the front page which clearly has all the merits of blogspam. There is a video in it, which is essentially the only content that people clicked in for, that was embedded from Gamevideos. Often times Digg members claim it is blogspam when videos are taken from one source and embedded into a blog (never a website), especially for youtube video’s being embedded. Sure there is some written content on the Destructoid post but it clearly is getting attention for the video which could have been submitted directly from Gamevideos. Hence that is blogspam, why not just submit the video itself?
This is one of the problems with Digg’s community, they are more and more being commercialised and they really don’t care. Either that or they don’t have a fixed set of generally agreed upon rules of what determines blogspam, seems like it is anything from any blog except a certain few such as Destructoid, and no matter what video another blog might post if it embeds videos it will get accused of being blogspam.
I’d go as far as to say that Destructoid would still be nothing if its original submissions were treated as blogspam and the blog banned from Digg. So why keep out other upcoming blogs? Because of blogspam? Often times it isn’t blogspam, it may be a collection of embedded video’s such as a ‘Top Ten Best Robot Videos’ which people accuse of being blogspam for whatever reason.
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Comment by yoda76
The Tube Blog
Does that make "The Daily Tube" blogspam?
Comment by Ahmed
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PolyKicks
If it were a bigger blog it wouldn't be considered as such... for some reason.