News Source: http://socialmediarockstar.com
Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1241 Days ago
Category: Social Media
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News Source: http://socialmediarockstar.com
Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1241 Days ago
Category: Social Media
2 Comments
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I think Mr Social Media Rockstar misses the whole point of Digg users complaining about a rigged system. It has nothing to do with "the frustrations of the casual Digg user who never hits the home page". Digg users complain about "power users" gaming the system because it waters down the quality of the site. To 99% of Digg users, its not about being a "social media rockstar"... its just about reading quality content on Digg. And when "power users" are blindly digging hundreds of stories each day based on who submitted those stories clearly it waters down the site for the end users, most who don’t "look up to the ’social media rockstars’ and follow their content on Digg or Twitter, in part because they are famous."
Chris1 does raise an interesting and valid point that certain super users have figured out how to game social networks and unfortunately degrade the quality of content for monetary or status benefits. While I do recognize that social networks are an extension of real life social hierarchies where people with better social skills thrive, I view super users (and normal users) that abuse their status for personal gain the same way I view spammers and blackhat SEO practitioners. If the content you submit doesn’t add value or spark interesting/important conversations then you’re wasting the communities’ time and polluting the reputation of the network! Gaming the system only benefits you and your buddies at best!Call them out expose them in plain view of others - let the community decide what to do with offenders. This kind of behavior is abusive and to the detriment of all users - both regular and power users.