Diggers vs Bloggers – Check Your Profile For Friends

When I first joined Digg, I really didn’t know too much about it or the system. Over time, I accepted many people as friends and added what seems to be an equal number. The end result is having over 100 people added as friends in my Digg account. Some have been added as mutual, some I am still just at fan status and quite a few are actually people I know.

However, I have been spending about 10 minutes or so each night for the last three purging my friends list and removing people that I don’t know and keeping the ones that I do. I am learning quite a bit about the community tools within the Digg network and it is actually a pretty useful thing if you use it for the right purposes.

Bloggers commonly use Digg to score traffic. And you know, I feel their pain, bloggers always want to get recognized for their work and they will do what they need to do to try to get traffic. In the process of learning more about Digg and the large community of people within, it turns out that Diggers and Bloggers don’t get along very well.

Diggers typically don’t like Bloggers because Bloggers come onto their turf and drop Digg bombs for the purpose of getting traffic. Bloggers don’t like Diggers because Diggers tend to shun them and thumbs down their efforts. If you ask me, it’s all kind of childish; however, I think if I had to choose, I’d have to side with Diggers and come to their defense.

It is true, it seems like there are more Bloggers who use Digg in hopes to score traffic rather than to present useful information to users in the community. In fact, Bloggers have gone so far as to create little secret Instant Message networks so that they can blast out messages to their network to in an attempt to get the needed votes to get a submission to make the home page.

I can clear as day see why Diggers don’t like Bloggers. At any rate, enough with that, this isn’t the purpose of the post. The purpose of this post is to announce my Digg URL:

http://digg.com/users/garryconn

and to invite any and all my readers who also have a Digg account to add me as a friend. Also this post serves as a reminder to check and see if you have added me knowing that I have already added you. As I mentioned above, I am purging out my friends list in Digg. This will go in two stages.

First stage is simple: Remove anyone I don’t know.

Second stage is to give people that I do know the opportunity to add me as mutual or they’ll be dropped.

The reason why I am purging out my friends list is because once I have this things totally cleaned out, I’ll be in a better position to actually follow and track the items my true online friends submit to Digg. In other words, I’ll be in a much better position to add my vote to the stuff that you submit into Digg. The reason is pretty simple.

In Digg, each user has a section called, Friend’s Activity. From this page, any user can get a list of the most recent activity of their friends. You can quickly work your way down, seeing exactly what you’re friends submit into Digg and offer your vote, if you like. I plan on doing just that.

Here is the URL to my “Friend’s Activity” page:

http://digg.com/users/garryconn/friends

So here’s the deal. If you want to be my mutual friend in Digg, first check and see if I have added you. If I have, then you should add me so that we have the mutual friends status. Keep in mind, eventually I will be removing friends from my network who haven’t added me in return.

Secondly, if you want to add me, drop me a comment and let me know. I will then check out your profile page and review your previous submissions into Digg and see if the stuff you do interests me.

For me, the whole point in doing all this is to improve my ability to follow the things that my friends feel are cool enough to submit to Digg. Second point is to better use the Digg system for what it was intended. I’ll admit, I have used Digg for the purpose of trying to get traffic to pages.

I had a conversation a few days ago from a devoted Digg users and together we both learned how life is for each other. I learned what it is like to be a Digger and he too learned what the life of a Blogger is all about. Amazingly, the war between Diggers and Bloggers could very easily come to an end.

Diggers and Bloggers have quite a bit in common and actually in many ways want the same things and have the same goals. Diggers just have a different way going about things compared to Bloggers. The bottom line is this: If you want to be apart of my little Digg network, I am open to it.

I see an interesting light in the Digg system. I see Digg as a real wonderful system that allows for people to be able to share cool things with their friends and vote on it. Some how over the past two years or so, I think Bloggers have really muddied up the waters with the Digg system. So, if you want to be in my Digg friend network, that is great, but I expect to see good stuff being submitted.

If you make my friends list, you’ll get my vote and eventually as a continue to grow and moderate who is in my network, my vote will be coupled with about 50 to 100 or even more votes back to the stuff you submit. Reason being is simple: If I add you as a friend on my end, you can expect to see my vote and comments. That goes hand in hand with you being mutual.

If you don’t stay active with my activity on Digg, then there is really no point keeping you in my network. The same should apply for me as well. If you accept me as a friend, but notice that I never contribute in your own network, you should remove me. At this point I am blabbing… but I think you should now get the point, right???

Anyway, once again here is my Digg URL:

http://digg.com/users/garryconn

I need you to either add me, remove me, or mutual me.

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