Wow... I just got Dugg.

So I write an article on seven mistakes for a newbie to make on my personal, 25-unique-visitor a day blog to contribute something to the ProBlogger '31 Days to a Better Blog article...'.

I leave for several hours, expecting something like my usual 2 Sunday hits (last Sunday I had something like 7 uniques in 24 hours; I'm not kidding about small traffic).

I come back and I have 690 hits and a ton of hate mail in my inbox. Turns out someone submitted the article to Digg.com, and a few hours later, it had hit the front page; my tiny site got a deluge of traffic not unlike a power washing hitting a delicate, delicate china doll.

In conclusion, Digg people are, on the whole, mean. Apparently blogs are a sore subject over there, and anyone with anything to say about them is claiming to be an expert and offending them mortally enough for them to take several minutes to write detailed emails about why I suck.

 

Whoa, forget being mean - at least they pay attention! I'll be submitting my blog, www.burritoblog.com as soon as I have a worthy entry.

 

The crazy thing is that I didn't submit it myself! I left a comment on another site, which apparently got picked up by someone and submitted to Digg.

As it is, yes, they pay attention; if I read their stats right, they think I'm half as cool as pictures of the space shuttle. Which would make a good tagline, actually; "Thirty Stories Up: Half as Cool as the Space Shuttle."

 

what lifeless peeps, to care so much about the brain leavings we call content to write windy emails.

/story

 

That's nothing. I got my ultrasound site blogged by some crazy group of people who hate babies. They hate babies for goodness sakes! Who does that??! It was just bad.

I can see being annoyed by little one's in movie theaters or something like that, but to actively dislike them so much that you would seek out a community of like minded people is just plain wierd and wrong. And to think someone actually took the time to build such a community.

I was creeped out for a month by those people.

 

Add a couple of CPM advertisements and add a few articles, and you got a great thing going. lol, even if they all hate you.

 

It's not so much that they care about content... it's that they care enough about blog content to write email to me and say how dumb and pointless they think blogs are. If they really think it's so insignificant, why all the time spent trying to convince people not to write any blog content?

 

The comments about your blog in digg are a real mixed bag... THE most venomously hypocritical comments are the ones "like anyone gives a sh*t what you have to say..." Err, excuse me, like we give a sh*t about their comments on digg, which, correct me if I'm wrong, works in a similar manner to a blog...???

It's like the time Elliot Back blogged about the GTA Rating Sex Scandal... the majority of comments were from complete knuckle-draggers...

Good luck dude, publicity is publicity, whatever

 

jebus, lever, gonna have to agree.

 

bloody hell David, who is that in your avatar? I hardly recognised you.

Mella ~ successfully Hijacking threads since January 2005

 

Haha @ Mella.


@ Key: I actually found Digg this morning and was one of the many visitors to your site from it. I think Digg could be a positive thing. Don't let people get you down. I thought your 7 tips was pretty good. Keep up the good work!

 

peter sellers. You're older than me, you should remember Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther?

 

Omg really? How old are you!!? I thought you were a daddio.

 

barely 19, to further hijack this thread.

 

That looks like Peter Sellers

 

Yes, he said that's Peter Sellers. lol

 

only 19? wowzers! I thought you were mid forties for some bizaar reason.

Yay this thread has officially been Hijacked, futhamucka's!