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Are people just voting for content and not really reading? Is blind support acceptable social media behaviour? What say you?
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from eKstreme 1508 Days ago #
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I just voted. I didn’t read the post :)

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from WayneSmallman 1508 Days ago #
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Yeah, this is something I wrote about recently, which I prosaically refer to as my 3 rules of Socia Media.I’ll only ever vote on something for three reasons:    1.    The topic is of interest to me.    2.    I agree with the majority of the article.    3.    I think the article is good enough to share.And I will read the article...

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from RedEvo 1508 Days ago #
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I’ll only Sphinn an article I’ve read but I’m not convinced this is the norm. Goog points well made.d

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from JamesDuthie 1508 Days ago #
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I’m with you Wayne. Those are the basic principles I follow, and I guess I expected others to as well, especially here at Sphinn where the content and audience are more professional than your typical social media site.

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from theGypsy 1508 Days ago #
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well there JD... don’t forget;1. folks that accessed directly (earlier visit)2. folks reading via RSS3. folks accessing via other social medium (twitter,stumble etc...)This post is a good case ... I accessed it via RSS...so Sphinning was done as I had already read it....but you see what I mean, the data may be misleading. I do tend to read what I share, vote for.... part of one’s persona is the quality of their actions oui?

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from JamesDuthie 1508 Days ago #
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Ah yes Dave... all valid points. For prominent blogs I’d expect that you’re right as traffic is driven from Stumble, Google, RSS etc. But for my humble little (new) blog, I still don’t think it explains the gap as my numbers from these sources are relatively small at the moment.It may reduce the gap, but not account for it completely.

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