Comments on: Where the Lame Kids Went

By: Viral Linking, Technorati Manipulation, and Blog CPR

Viral Linking, Technorati Manipulation, and Blog CPR — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:27:45 +0000

[...] site was pulling in 200-400 visitors per day. Although I had a couple of traffic spikes thanks to being an asshole and, umm, being labeled an asshole, I was never able to retain most of those visitors as readers. [...]

By: Indie Virus: 7 Day Stats

Indie Virus: 7 Day Stats — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:23:05 +0000

[...] Although I have had my share of traffic spikes over the last couple of months (largely thanks to this and this), I have not been able to sustain a very good baseline level of traffic. In essence, I [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:20:27 +0000

Chris, you’ve managed to draw the ‘l33t ones with this story!

I predict that the owners of sites like reddit won’t do much in favor of the “community”, due to little things called “traffic volume” and “clickthroughs”.

Regarding Pearsonified, awesome job! A recent find for me via CopyBlogger. I’ll be back.

~ Richard

By: Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:21:16 +0000

Either this is reverse psychology – or you’re just upset that too many people are finding out about reddit. I didn’t know about it until you wrote about it, but of course I was never one to sit in front of the class and ask lots of questions. I do now though. I still haven’t been over to reddit, I’ll take your word for it that there’s too many mindless sheep over there. My son referred me to popurls.com for all the techy, geeky stuff I need to know about.

One really cool thing at the bottom of the page on popurls.com – did you know you can add your own website/story link under ‘your pop’? My son got over 300 hits from that brief link exposure.

In regards to a previous commenter’s comment on 14 year olds – don’t ya know they’re taking over the world? Now, not just later.

p.s. Nice blog. I’m thinking of starting one – I’m just not sure I could keep it up on a regular basis.

See ya,
~ Sheila ~

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:53:49 +0000

Hi, I wanted to tell you that I think you are an awesome designer! I found your website through SEOBook. I really liked the design so I found who made it.

One day I want to make a WordPress design and I am always looking for inspiration – and I found it.

As for this post, I was kind of disgusted reading some of the comments. It’s kind of cool that you leave them up. On my blog I delete anything that I don’t like lol.

I also like your writing style. The links on the right hand side kept me busy for awhile, I must have read for close to an hour. Just wanted to stop by and say hi.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:11:10 +0000

When I saw that article on the front page of digg, I wondered if digg had finally become too loaded with 14 year olds to have any value. I distinctly remember your article for that reason. This is not meant as a flame, I’m just being honest.
-I’ve never heard of reddit.com until this post.
-Go to Aqua-soft.org and visit the forums if you are really interested in customizing your desktop well.

By: ezzerick

ezzerick — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:30:14 +0000

oh no, they didn’t like your article. boo-hoo. cry me a river.

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:49:37 +0000

Jesse, you’re a genius. Seriously, you should submit that to spez or kn0thing ASAP. I know they constantly take feedback from the community, and I see this as a necessary improvement to secure reddit’s future.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:03:29 +0000

Why not just split the modding into two types: quality, and interest? That way, users wouldn’t have to “mod down” good articles that simply don’t interest them, but rather could tag them as uninteresting–to them–without labeling them “bad”.

That way you could train your personal filter (or whatever) to recognize your personal likes and dislikes without “beating down” good articles that don’t happen to interest you.

By: M. Rosetree

M. Rosetree — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:56:03 +0000

I remember modding down your article.

It wasn’t that it was a bad article; it was mainly because I’d seen similar articles before, and I just didn’t want to read another.

I guess the problem is that, in order to train the filter to recognize stuff you don’t want to see, you need to mod stuff down.