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For the record, this is the first post of mine I have suggested. According to this http://sphinn.com/story/53984, we should be submitting our own posts. Though it still seems like self promotion!! ;)
haha I don't think I've ever seen that before. I'm not sure if English speakers in other countries are affected as much as the UK.
Good post. I just desphinned my first post :) It was an article which was full of affiliate links. It was more of an advertisement than a post that should be on sphinn.
I wasn't aware Sphinn encouraged you to submit your own posts. Is this not frowned upon within the community? I mean, would members not be less likely to sphinn suggestions from people who submit their own articles on a daily basis?
cre8pc - It seems the desphinn button is more for spam than for differences of opinions. I read the post from the sphinn moderator who posted some of the junk that gets submitted. Some of the submissions are hilarious.
Nick - Thanks Nick. Yes I came across that post this morning (and commented on it). I like the fact that there isn't too much spam here. The moderators obviously do a lot of work however there is a lot of self regulating too which is good.
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I wrote a post yesterday about how no one seems to desphinn.
Nick makes a very good point about some articles being pushed to the front. Matt Cutts posts nearly always reach the front page because he is so high profile, yet some of his posts are not as good as the ones he's pushing down the list.
andy : I personally wouldn't cast any vote. I don't think it's fair to cast a vote in an article I cannot understand.
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True. With Sphinn having moderators looking after this kind of thing too the need for actually having the desphinn option in the first place is less. Perhaps a 'report to moderator' link would be more suitable. It would allow unsuitable posts to be looked at by the moderating team and standard posts which have a poorer quality will just go down the list natrually.
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@Nick
I think your right. From what I have seen so far, people are really reluctant to use the desphinn option. We need to change how people view the desphinn option.
Perhaps we should encourage people to use the desphinn option for articles they dislike and advise them to explain why.
If someone was following me around and casting negative votes on all posts from my blogs then obviously I'd have a bit of a grievence but I wouldn't have a problem with people desphinning my posts. Particularly if they leave a comment as well and explain why they are desphinn.
@Danny
Judgement calls are something I didn't even think about it. It would be better if control was placed within the community. I was referring to reporting spam more than anything else. Of course, the debate comes up about what is considered spam and what is not.
As you mentioned, interesting comments from Michael Martinez. Some good points raised about how webmasters could abuse this system by buying spammy links for competitiors and then reporting them. Not sure how google would cope with this kind of thing if it became common.
I think it's a good concept however after thinking about it some more I'm not sure how well it would work in practice. It would really need someone at the helm spending a lot of time making sure it's steered in the right direction.
Good post. Contacting advertisers directly is something I need to do more. I get emailed about ad spots on other sites so I really should return the favour :)
The funny thing is, the article he is trying to promote is only a few sentences long. Maybe more effort should be put into writing the article in the first place.
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