Two of the world's largest blogs Gizmodo and Lifehacker announced today that they will be dropping the yellow Digg button on their articles, unless they are exclusive or original content created by themselves.
Gizmodo and Lifehacker also encourage their fans to stop submitting all of their posts to Digg. It make sense because many Digg users are just submitting everything they read to Digg. As much as I like their ideas behind it, I think it is hard to regulate and people will just continue to submit whatever they feel like.
It seems like 90% of the technology blogs that I read have the Digg badge or some sort of social bookmarking buttons... Are we going to see other major blogs going to follow suit?
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Gizmodo/Lifehacker Announce No Digg Spams
Posted by Andy at 10:55 PM
Labels: digg, gizmodo, lifehacker
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I actually like StumbleUpon and Reddit better than Digg. While I have digg in my social bookmark buttons on my blog, I don't think I'm in any danger of getting dugg haha.
they should keep the digg button but write the code so that it submits the site they are linking to.
@Brown: I like SU for its randomness of interesting stuff popping up :P I look at Digg to check out what's hot...
@Steve: Nice idea ;)
I never had digg badges or buttons on my personal blog...but with my new theme, it came with them. I dont expect my posts making the front page of digg anytime soon though :D
-Gregg
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