I am a Digg Spammer, at least according to Digg users HaltingPoint, dnight, and hobbsy, who left the following comments on the Digg Story of my last post about the $100 dollar business.
The story was buried soon after it made it to the home page, which is too bad because in my opinion it was pretty interesting. In my own defense I would like to say that I didn’t even submit either of the two stories that I have had make it to the homepage, and in neither case did I have the intention of profiting from the Digg exposure. I did have adsense on each post at one time or another but removed it as soon as I saw the stories had been dugg, for the very reason of not appearing like a spammer.
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Don’t swet the small stuff. The Green Eyed Monster (better known as User: HaltingPoint it seems) earned his comment a one way trip to nowhere. MINUS SIXTEEN by the time of the screen shot.
However I know how hurtfull it can be when another user attacks you for no real reason. We call these guys “Trolls” and a good approach is “Do Not Feed The Trolls”. As a blogger you must have had similar silly attacks on your own blog?
I actually went to the trouble of writting a basic disemvowler to make attackers comments into menaingless junk at one stage. It’s a shame that this is not available on digg.com…
I have been on the receiving end of some smallminded people for similar ‘offences’, they really are best ignored - at least digg is big enough to avoid them. I wonder how they have so much time on their hands.
I’ve had this too recently and for want of a better phrase it can “piss on your parade” if you let it.
As Flora said you are best ignoring criticism. I think it takes you to distance yourself from your work a little. If you accept the positive things people write about you, you’ll tend to believe the negatives too.
It can be a real pain in the ass.
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