RSS Feeds: Digg Me Not
I just finished deactivating the Gregarious plugin for WordPress. I do NOT need the headaches that come with my website getting "dugg", which includes not being able to access it myself. I may bring it back in the future, but I don't plan on it, at least not with this web host.
It all started when I wrote the article, Downloading Pirated Anything Is NOT Illegal, on March 20th. After reading a lot of what I considered hostile comments on both my blog and on Digg, I wrote my Followup to the Previous Article while the site was still going up and down. I wasn't very kind to diggers in general.
My final thoughts on the whole thing were summed up in my article, Almost UNIVERSAL HATRED of the RIAA and American Copyright Laws where I said that I would have done things differently had I known how "delicate" the topic was.
You see, Digg brought in a lot of traffic but it was relatively short term and it skewed my real traffic numbers. You'd probably think that I'd appreciate the traffic and some of the advertising revenue. I did, but I didn't, if that makes any sense at all. If it had been regular traffic, my revenue would have been at least 10 times higher.
I apologize to the diggers that weren't part of the hostility, but the rest of them can take a long walk on a short pier as far I'm concerned. The plugin is deactivated. I'm not making it easy for anyone to submit my site again.
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lol. I wonder if this post would get Dugg if we submitted it!
Hey, check out my post about Roadkill. A commentator there left a comment about Philippine people and a funny occurrence. Maybe you could educate her to Philippino eating habits.
Well, I guess I won't DIGG your posts anymore. Wow, I hadn't read that post. Wow, and double wow.
I had an article a while back that got picked up at digg (not as big as yours). It was just a copy and paste from some article about reasons not to use Firefox. All it got was short term abuse comments saying what a moron I am – it wasn't even my story!
It seems Firefox fans are as bad as Apple fans.
http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/ten-reasons-not-to-use-firefox-20/
Hey RT – does the add block plus extension in firefox affect your advertising revenue? Wouldn't want to do a mate out of a dollar or a peso
I'm not sure I understand your question. If I have adblock on and use it for my own site, it prevents me from accidentally clicking on my own ads. When I go to another website, especially a blog that I like, I right click on the icon and disable it for that site. Why? Because there might be an ad I'm interested in and clicking it can only help the site owner. If I fail to disable it, I can't see an ad to click it, now can I?
Is this what you're asking?
I think coach is asking if your ads (on UV) get blocked if surfers have that plugin enabled.
In that case, the answer is yes, it does, but only if you told it to.