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.
