Over the last few months, it looks like the wingnuts have undertaken a specific and systematic effort to try and downrate items that don’t reflect well on them at places like REDDIT and DIGG.
Of course, lots of recommendations on those two sites result in thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of more eyeballs to the various stories we run here at The BRAD BLOG — stories which are often not seen anywhere else in the media, even in the Progressive Blogosphere for that matter!
So your REDDITs and DIGGs actually do matter quite a bit, particular now since the wingnuts seem to have begun their downrating campaign. Click here to see the amazing number of DOWN votes at REDDIT, for example, for last night’s “Franken Isn’t ‘Leading’; He Won and Coleman Lost” story. Without all that downrating, the story would easily have made it to the front page of REDDIT for a long while, and therefore been propagated across dozens of other key sites on the net as well.
It takes about 30 seconds to sign up for REDDIT and/or DIGG the first time, and then you can remain logged on forever. It then takes less than 2 seconds to vote for and/or uprate our stories here at The BRAD BLOG without even leaving this page by hitting the REDDIT and DIGG vote icons for stories that you believe are important to get out there.
Your 2 seconds of a mouse clicking matters. Really. And, as ever, your help is much appreciated! (And thanks to those regular DIGGers and REDDITers who already help out!)
Brad,
I often submit and upvote your stories at Reddit.
For details on how Reddit and Digg are gamed, please read this:
http://washingtonsblog.com/2009/01/downvote-bots-fight-propaganda-war.html
Thanks, GW!
I am often the first one to post to BB stories to Digg. Which is a hassle because they make you jump through a few hoops, and the process takes a minute or two. If you’re not the first one in, it’s far easier–one click does it provided you stay logged in on your computer.
I don’t bother with Reddit. Should we favor one over the other?
Brad, also, consider a Facebook presence. There is a *ton* of progressive activity, blogging and fund-raising on FB, much of which is FB-specifici, including many EI groups all with lists so they can blast stories to their entire groups easily. I often cross-post your stories to my FB page which get a lot of play you would not have gotten otherwise. BB needs to have a FB page and should also include 1-click FB ‘post to profile’ button like HuffPo has. Right now you can use FB’s Links feature to post stories on your FB page, and that’s relatively easy, but not as easy as the one-click ‘share on Facebook’ command HuffPo and other sites have.
FB has become THE go-to intranet and not having a presence there I believe undercuts BB’s efficacy.
JC
….YEA, Brad-Fly!(Trumpet Sounds): The importance of this action from every reader here can not be over-stated. DIGG and REDDIT and rating sites like it are a critical cog in the potential funding wheel for the future of the new media business model, still in it’s larvae phase. Future advertising dollars will be bartered and gleefully spent based on which site can boast the most eyeballs, and they will look to such sites as automatic green light indicators.
Yes, it takes a second or two, but this is a battle for the future of our very search engines! If every wildly insightful mind who read the Bradblog rated, digg(ed), reddited, buzzed up, or stumbled upon even just one of the Pulitzer-Prize worthy articles you do, not only might it better preserve the foundation of net neutrality, but it would continue to hold accountable those voices with better distribution deals for misrepresenting the facts, obfuscating and outright lying – or in Glen Beck’s case, INCITING something grim and delusional. At best it’s stupidity, at worst, it’s violent stupidity.
I submit that as an exercise in the bizarre motif, we collectively choose one of Brad’s outstanding articles to “flash mob” them with, and see how we might impact it’s Global search engine rating/ if it’s picked up by any other media outlets/ track it’s resulting progress daily, etc.
Ideally, such experimentations could lead to real changes in Brad’s life and career; giving us all a self-sustaining news source we can trust, without little pissers-of-time-eaters like ‘facts’ getting muddled.
We should do so before the search engines are even more shamefully gamed. (Great link, GW.)
I do not know what the goal of Beck and other neo-cons is. I have come to the conclusion that they are part of the anti-American “troops” that Bush/Cheney warned us about. They totally hate America.
I often digg your articles, or cross post them on Face Book.
I just signed up at Reddit. I notice when I refresh a Reddit page referring to a Brad Blog article, the numbers of up and down votes change each time but not by much. Is this a ratio, such as 7 votes up to every 5 votes down begets a score of 2 points?
This is gonna make glen’s head explode, AGAIN!!
Prop H8’ers, you reap what you sow…
NY state governor introduces gay marriage bill
Reuters – ‎45 minutes ago‎
By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Gov. David Paterson on Thursday introduced a bill to allow gay marriage in the state, likening the effort to civil rights struggles and brushing aside objections from religious leaders.
New York governor to push same-sex marriage bill CNN
Gov. Paterson introduces legislation to legalize gay marriage in … New York Daily News
Newsday – NECN – WNYC – The Associated Press
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http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&topic=h&ncl=1332824925&cf=all&scoring=n