Comments on: Don’t let the Haters bring you Down

By: Inspirational Quote Maniac

Inspirational Quote Maniac — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:07:22 +0000

It must be disheartening to get such comments.

But for a new blogger, to get lots of comments is a great thing. No matter how many are negatives. At least your friend managed to get her visitors engaged.

As for digg users, most are tech-savvy teens. Thus, angry or uncensored remarks from them are nothing new.

It’s okay. Tell your friend to keep blogging.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:31:05 +0000

Good post. I think I actually found your site through that 300 post on Digg. I remember that most of the comments were highly critical. Glad you were able to see the benefit of the Digg and ignore the negative comments.

I actually think that the Digg crowd in general is highly negative. It’s almost as if they like nothing better than to Digg something up and comment it down. I still stop by Digg once in a awhile to see what’s new but I’m doing less and less commenting over there because it feels more like a flame war than anything else.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:07:53 +0000

It depends on what you are writing as to which you are digged for, I guess. Some diggers think they have seen it all (by digging), and they think that they are some big shot when they make those comments. But it’s still acceptable, overall.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:41:36 +0000

So Diggbait for links, not necessarily the traffic? I think could buy that argument.

By: stark

stark — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:19:59 +0000

Yeah, Digg definitely brings in a lot of bad traffic but I can say for sure, there is not much of a faster, cheaper, and better way to build links to your site then getting a front page Digg article.

Within a 24 hour span, dozens and dozens of blogs will link to your article and which causes a sort of chain reaction of even more links. Even weeks after the digg article has slipped away, you’ll still get traffic from the other blogs that linked to you.

I don’t know. If you have a thick skin when it comes to criticism, Digg can be very powerful.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:03:23 +0000

The sole reason I’ve never attempted to get Dugg is the flood of idiot Diggers it brings to your site. The comments I see on other sites was more than enough to make me decide that it wasn’t worth it. I’m probably throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I’m not blogging for a living, so I don’t have to have the traffic. I’d rather just avoid the headache altogether.

Also, I definitely wouldn’t lump StumbleUpon users and Digg users together. They’re two totally different animals in my experience.