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To you digg-sters

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:36 pm
by s.dot
Is it appropriate for an article-based web site to have a 'digg' button on each article? Or do sites usually just put one on the home page and that's it? Maybe both?

Some site examples I can look at?

Obviously I'm not familiar with the process of being dugg ;) Is it for more than just technical articles?

What about otherones? Reddit? del.icio.us? Which ones do you typically put on web sites (if any) to help increase traffic?

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:17 am
by aaronhall
It's fairly common these days to put a huge set of links to every social Xing site in existence, and digg/reddit counters on every article page. Digg is mostly for LOLcats and Ron Paul fanatics, but occasionally they'll promote some quality articles.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:56 am
by Charles256
Wow. Way to over generalize.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:25 am
by aaronhall
Hyperbole, my friend

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:59 am
by Josh1billion
Kongregate.com (a flash game website) has digg/stumbleupon/etc. links on the page of each game.

Example: link
Ctrl+F to where it says "Share or send"

Also, articles on qj.net also have a link after an article that says "Digg it!".

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:50 pm
by Jenk
Every site like digg has it's glory days, before the general user base seems to drop in IQ and they all vote for garbage such as LOLcats.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:04 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Who doesn't love LOLcats? I have it on good authority that they were the single biggest design goal for TBL @ CERN.

I'm shocked (and saddened) that the LOL request method didn't make it into the final HTTP spec *sniff*

(edited due to smiley interference)

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:00 pm
by s.dot
Kieran Huggins wrote:Who doesn't love LOLcats? I have it on good authority that they were the single biggest design goal for TBL @ CERN.

I'm shocked (and saddened) that the LOL request method didn't make it into the final HTTP spec :cry:
We'll have to settle for emails like lol@yourdomain.com

Or in corps, lol.scott@example.com.

(weird parsing there) lol . scott @ example . com is what it should be ;)

EDIT| Grrr. just skip this post.

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:29 am
by alex.barylski
I'm not big on popular culture, including anything on the Internet, so I have to ask...WTF is LOLcats??? Haha

p.s-I'll Google it right now :)

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:43 am
by Kieran Huggins
You've never heard of I Can Has Cheezburger?

Wow. They're almost passé by now!

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:48 am
by aaronhall
Hockey, you need to get out less :wink:

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:27 pm
by TheMoose
Charles256 wrote:Wow. Way to over generalize.
As sad as it may seem, but it's somewhat true. I was/am a Digg browser from way back in it's hay-day when Kevin was sneakily promoting it on The Screen Savers (back when TechTV was amazing, before Comcast decided to throw it down the toilet with G4). It was definitely a million times better then, stories were actually worth reading, and there were no "OMG LOOK AT THIS PICTURE" articles.

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:35 pm
by Josh1billion
TheMoose wrote:Kevin was sneakily promoting it on The Screen Savers (back when TechTV was amazing, before Comcast decided to throw it down the toilet with G4)
That show was awesome.. that whole channel was awesome with a few exceptions. Extended Play was really good too, back when Adam Sessler was just a correspondent or something rather than a host.. back before the show was renamed to X-Play and gained the maturity of a third-grader. :/

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:48 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Anyone remember TSS with Kate and Leo? Now that was some hardcore geekness!

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:11 am
by alex.barylski
Hmmmmmmmm...Morgan Webb...

I would commit any sin for one night of nakedness for that woman. :twisted: