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Went Hot: November 4, 2007 - 8:06 am
Posted By: theGypsy 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SNIPPET - OMG, yet another post on Sphinn? Yup. I tell you why gaming Sphinn is counter productive, because I just don’t want to read another whiny rant in the lines of “why do you ignore my stuff whilst A listers [whatever this undefined term means] get their crap sphunn hot in no time”. Also, discussions assuming that success equals bad behavior like this or this one aren’t exactly funny nor useful. As for the whiners: Grow the fuck up and produce outstanding content, then network politely but not obtrusive to promote it. As for the gamers: Think before you ruin your reputation!
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Thanks for the sphinn. :)
I'd be glad if this could be the last rant on young impatient sphinners ;) Sigh.
Don't count on it, Seb.!
You're right Jill. I know this behavior from supporting Webmaster just too well. "Why does Google ignore my stuff" is basically the same issue.
Well I'm not going to lie, it was hard for me to even skim this article when you missed the entire point of my comment.
So what's your point and what's wrong in my post? If I really addressed your point and got it that wrong, please elaborate.
Dismissing folks who are complaining as whiners completely ignores the fact that half the front page is crap content. Not everyone who's noted the problem is doing so because they're articles didn't get sphunn. How about thinking about the readers looking for quality content? This place is littered with too many junk posts that are getting sphunn like crazy. It's like DP 2.0 around here.
I don't have a solution, but heck, neither did the OP. I do think the site is likely losing repeat visitors as a result of this though.
I agree with Wheel that it's the same crap Sphunn about the same topics over and over again just to get noticed on a daily basis. I find a few gems a week but mostly it's the reciprocal Sphinn network doing that they do best by pushing each other to the front page regardless of quality or uniqueness.
True, the 99th permutation of "how to become a SU power user" is plain noise. I don't sphinn stuff like that, and I noticed that others ignore dead topics even from well known authors too. I'm not sure it's only reciprocal sphinning when such submissions make it on the home page. Many folks, me included, sphinn stuff as bookmark for later reading. It happens that I sphinn something to read it later on, esp. when the author or submitter usually delivers quality, and I admit that I don't bother with the "unsphinn" button when I'm disappointed. Also, most submissions which went hot have a few votes from folks who know that the submitter clicks on "who sphunn this", hoping they will be remembered or even stalked.
I believe that a fair amount of not exactly high quality stuff on the home page gets there due to a number of factors, or different motivations of the sphinners who voted it hot, including auto-voting for friends, sucking up, bookmarking, crediting the author before reading the post, and votes from folks who really liked it or at least found it sphinnworthy, perhaps because they didn't read the 98 other posts on the topic.
That's frustrating, but IMO not a good enough reason for cheating.
Q: How many SEOs does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 43
1 to hold the ladder
1 to screw it in
1 to blog about it
40 to Sphinn it to the front page
LOL. Succinct and to the point.