Comments on: Secret Private Voting Networks

By: GS

GS — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:45:05 +0000

I want to join! Please email me.

By: How We Were Dugg

How We Were Dugg — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:52:48 +0000

[...] networking is so important I’ve set up our own voting network. You can read more about our voting network. These networks are very underground and usually secretive. I may belong to other [...]

By: September 2007 Stats and Earnings

September 2007 Stats and Earnings — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:39:05 +0000

[...] Secret Private Voting Networks [...]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:24:09 +0000

Oh neat. Can I join your network?

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:34:28 +0000

Matthew, I think that if you want to get on in business there have always been alliances eg old boy network from public schools and Oxbridge, the golf club etc. I don’t think it’s a secret private voting network it’s bloggers helping each other promote their blogs to try to earn a crust in a competitive environment.

No-one is forced to vote. I think it brings my attention to articles which may be of interest to me. Yesterday I read the post about Blogrush and decided to sign up for it which will hopefully bring more readers to my travel blog and help promote other travel blogs.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:46:32 +0000

A lot of people have different views on it. My opinion, is that if you’re not forced to vote for something you don’t like, then there’s no problem.

If I get emailed a few articles, I take a look and stumble only those that I really like. If I ran across those same articles without the email, I would have still stumbled them because I would have liked them. Just because I discovered them through an email and not through surfing does not mean I’m gaming the system.

If I stumble everything including those I don’t like, then I could be faulted. As long as I only stumble posts that I really like, my conscience is clear.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:32:31 +0000

I have been in this ever since Matt emailed me about it. I welcomed it with open hands for these reasons, some of them mentioned by others as well.

* I pick and choose the ones I Stumble/Sphinn
* Gives me one more way of exploring new & interesting content
* I publish my Stumbles ( and delicious bookmarks) in my sidebar and I would like to share only quality links to my readers. I see it as a checkpoint for myself against blind stumbling.
* I am not for gaming social networks but I will definitely help out a fellow blogger if content is worthy of it.

Matt, I am kind of glad you brought this up.

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:42:23 +0000

I don’t vote daily, but maybe once a week or so, i think daily is a bit much. I like voting networks, as it is leveraging your network, and what is a network, if not a group of folks you can turn to when you want the power of numbers. Bloggers need bloggers, period. No blogger can survive or thrive without other bloggers. It just aint gonna happen.

Together we stand, divided we fall. lol.

I vote yes. hehe.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:01:08 +0000

I have no problem with these networks as such, and I’ll happily vote for anything people send me – as long as I like it.

I’m happy to help people, but I’m not stumbling stuff i don’t like.

Is that enough fence sitting?

By: Ed the Editor

Ed the Editor — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:57:08 +0000

I like receiving an email every day and looking through a couple of posts. I dont vote for every post by any means, and I dont even read every post. Seems quite innocuous to me.

Then again, I am not a gamer, so maybe others are abusing the idea?

PS I just wrote a really fantastic post on 301 redirects, http://www.thepisstakers.com/weekly/webtech3oct06_files/301-redirects-and-htaccess-files.html so even if you dont read it, don’t understand it, don’t like it, please vote for it on every social network you can find.