Dugg! June 1, 2007 9:31 AM   Subscribe

Cool!
posted by jpburns to MetaFilter-Related at 9:31 AM (36 comments total)

Link is gorked with an extra " on the end.

You could link directly to Matt's blog. Or is the point that it made it on Digg?
posted by dios at 9:37 AM on June 1, 2007


It made it to the Digg front page.
posted by empath at 9:38 AM on June 1, 2007


Gotcha.

Sorry I didn't catch that; I don't read Digg and didn't know it was a big deal to make it on the front page.
posted by dios at 9:40 AM on June 1, 2007


Depends on who yer making it with.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:44 AM on June 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


Link fixed.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:50 AM on June 1, 2007


It made it to the Digg front page.

Now he can die happy.
posted by Dave Faris at 9:54 AM on June 1, 2007


I see that Digg's commenters are doing their damnedest to out-stupid YouTube's.
posted by danb at 10:00 AM on June 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


My last one about community made it to the digg front page too.

Basically, somehow I added Kevin Rose as a friend on digg when I signed up for it 2+ years ago (but never used it). Now whenever I digg my own essay there, he sees it and if he diggs it, it winds up on the front page anywhere from 6-12 hours later as it filters through his supporters.

It's really fascinating how it has spread all from him twice now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:17 AM on June 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


...I added Kevin Rose as a friend on digg when I signed up for it 2+ years ago (but never used it). Now whenever I digg my own essay there, he sees it and if he diggs it, it winds up on the front page anywhere from 6-12 hours later as it filters through his supporters.

...so, there IS a cabal!
posted by muddgirl at 10:33 AM on June 1, 2007


Of course, Digg has a cabal. What MetaFilter has is a LOOCWAABA (League Of Obsessive Clickers Who Are Annoyed By Ads).
posted by wendell at 10:40 AM on June 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


LOOCWAABA—that just rolls off the tongue. What a true wordsmith you are, wendell.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:30 AM on June 1, 2007


Also (I dunno if Matt's reading this) I (a superfan, i think) often browse metafilter without logging in. I'd say...probably, at least 1/3 the time. And I'm often surprised by the ads, and occasionally click on them.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:33 AM on June 1, 2007


""Turn them off for members" was the suggestion from Rusty Foster. It was simple, yet brilliant..."

brilliant. yes. like a thousand suns going supernova over a snowy ski slope at noon on a cloudless winter day. aaaaaaalrighty then...
posted by quonsar at 11:48 AM on June 1, 2007


(hi balrog!)
posted by quonsar at 11:50 AM on June 1, 2007


I am still constantly amazed after all these years that most people still use browsers without ad blocking extensions installed.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:59 AM on June 1, 2007


I'd use adblockers if they weren't so overzealous. They often chomp up flash music players, some comment forms, and other legit basic website functionality that somewhere, somehow looks something like an ad to someone. Using adblock plus on firefox feels like running an extreme spam filter that drops out half of your personal email.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:10 PM on June 1, 2007


I got bit by a dingo once in LOOCWAABA.
posted by Divine_Wino at 12:14 PM on June 1, 2007


I've gotten so ad-blind over the years that I don't notice 'em unless they're really jarring or annoying. If I like the site enough, I'll write to 'em to say as much; if not, I just won't go back.

Adblock seems like a reasonable way to go, but there's a quiet (if probably futile) satisfaction in just taking my clickthrough elsewhere.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:17 PM on June 1, 2007


Rhomboid: "I am still constantly amazed after all these years that most people still use browsers without ad blocking extensions installed."

Trying to use someone else's computer is always a bit of a shock. I forget how ugly most of the web is without adblock.
posted by octothorpe at 12:26 PM on June 1, 2007


Superfans?

/creepy voice

I'm your number one fan...

posted by quin at 12:26 PM on June 1, 2007


I have driven for hours with two kids "chatting" in the back seat of the car. Ignoring online ads is trivial in comparison.
posted by GuyZero at 12:29 PM on June 1, 2007 [1 favorite]


I am still constantly amazed after all these years that most people still use browsers without ad blocking extensions installed.

Because the Internet's not free to maintain. These websites you go to nned to pay the bills somehow. On my part, I'm using their service for free. The least I can do is allow the ads to run and click them a few times to support the businesses I like.

On the business side, what's the alternatives? They start charging for membership or certain privileges? Go under? Create ads that much more intrusive to try and get around the ad blocker?

If the ads are over intrusive, I just opt not to go there.
Plus, after I visit most sites a few times, I don't even notice ads.
posted by jmd82 at 12:35 PM on June 1, 2007


I'd use adblockers if they weren't so overzealous. They often chomp up flash music players, some comment forms, and other legit basic website functionality that somewhere, somehow looks something like an ad to someone. Using adblock plus on firefox feels like running an extreme spam filter that drops out half of your personal email.

Hmm. That's not my experience with adblock plus on Firefox.

Because the Internet's not free to maintain. These websites you go to nned to pay the bills somehow. On my part, I'm using their service for free. The least I can do is allow the ads to run and click them a few times to support the businesses I like.

That's a good argument and is why I didn't use adblocking for a long time. Then I tried it, got used to it, and now I don't want to go back. I do still feel mildly guilty about it, though.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:53 PM on June 1, 2007


I don't use the adblock Firefox extension, I use privoxy. It occasionally blocks a legitimate page, but I get a big huge HTML page saying "this is blocked because..."

Because the Internet's not free to maintain.

File under "their business model is not my problem". I run my own sites, and I pay for their hosting out of my own pocket. I don't have any ads. If you want to pay for your site with ads, all the more power to you. And apparently, since most people don't block ads, that power's pretty strong. But don't expect me to view them. If you want to have a paypal link and ask for donations, then I would probably pay if it's a site I use often, or if it's a site like Metafilter that has other kinds of fees, fine.
posted by Rhomboid at 12:58 PM on June 1, 2007


Iadblock but whitelist my regular sites that deserve it, and I have absolutely made purchases from some of the ads on them.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:00 PM on June 1, 2007


Of course, that really points to the fact that the sites I like best do a good job at generating ads that actually interest me.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:01 PM on June 1, 2007


Flashblock is a good halfway house on this. To me it's those freakin' constantly moving newspapery style huge adverts I don't want interfering. Text ads are fine and I do click on them from time to time but never because I want to see the advertised site.
posted by peacay at 1:01 PM on June 1, 2007


If you order the #3, be sure to try it with the LOOCWAABA sauce. That stuff is SPICY!
posted by jefbla at 1:12 PM on June 1, 2007


The Internet is so much prettier with adblock and flashblock though. I even use it block annoying pics in signatures on message boards and the like. Sometimes, it is mildly frustrating when someone posts a picture and all I see is nothing (then I just open a different browser).
posted by drezdn at 1:44 PM on June 1, 2007


Adblock is worthwhile if only to block the auto-playing flash music player on Myspace. And I don't even use Myspace. Killing intellitxt is nice too. Just about anything else on the internet I could take or leave, although I tend to block the more obtrusive ads after a while.
posted by Partial Law at 1:56 PM on June 1, 2007


Every time I use somebody else's computer there is a brief moment of pain when I am reminded that the internet is full of advertisements.

If only somebody could invent an adblock device for the real world...
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:17 PM on June 1, 2007


>I'd use adblockers if they weren't so overzealous. They often chomp up flash music players, some comment forms, and other legit basic website functionality that somewhere, somehow looks something like an ad to someone. Using adblock plus on firefox feels like running an extreme spam filter that drops out half of your personal email.

>>Hmm. That's not my experience with adblock plus on Firefox.


Nor mine, although I only use one filter subscription. I've never noticed anything get eaten that shouldn't have been. And that comment about mail is worrisome -- could you elaborate on the mail thing? Even with Gmail or the like, how could that even happen?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:41 PM on June 1, 2007


I have no issue with ads. But occasionally the ad-servers are painfully slow compared to the sites themselves. I understand the level of stress they are under, but it can slow down the entire page load because of one stupid ad server that is taking a year (and by that I mean "not immediate"). So it is a constant struggle between wanting quick load times and wanting to not have to struggle to get youtube links to appear.

But that is the price I pay for getting lots of awesome content for free I guess.
posted by aburd at 11:23 PM on June 1, 2007


I do the same thing on my site, log in = no ads - and I'm kinda surprised how many regulars reveal that they don't bother logging in anyway. I thought I would choose no-ads whenever I could but then I've been reading metafilter logged out for the past week. :))
posted by dabitch at 3:06 AM on June 2, 2007


stavrosthewonderchicken, doesn't it mean "would be like running an extreme mail filter" rather than "adblock filters email" which afaik, it don't.
posted by dabitch at 3:08 AM on June 2, 2007


I'd use adblockers if they weren't so overzealous. They often chomp up flash music players, some comment forms, and other legit basic website functionality that somewhere, somehow looks something like an ad to someone. Using adblock plus on firefox feels like running an extreme spam filter that drops out half of your personal email.

That's why I like the kind of adblockers that require a little bit of "training"... i.e., it starts out blocking nothing and you have to actually tell it, "Okay, block this, and this, and everything from this domain." Opera has a pretty good one built in; you just go to Block Content on a page and click on everything you don't want. And then edit the url if you want it to be more specific, since it usually truncates it with a wildcard at the end. And the best part is that you can still see them--but with a "blocked" strip over them--in Block Content mode, so it's fairly simple to find things that were accidently blocked and unblock them. After a few days or so (much less if you mainly visit the same sites over and over), it's mostly trained and only requires occasional additions to the blacklist.

Adblock worked the same way the last time I used it, but I guess it's changed. I like (and miss) Flashblock, though, because it didn't remove Flash; it just stopped it from playing and replaced it with a blank box and a play button. Very nice for when I wanted to open several Youtube links at the same time.
posted by Many bubbles at 4:29 PM on June 2, 2007


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