When you promote everybody you promote nobody
Oh Wait! You promote yourself because you hope some of those who you promoted will promote you back.
I am talking about the "promoting a post" submitted for the contests like Dove, HP and Dell.
I was not a member here during Dove time. But for the other two, I submitted my posts. One of them is doing OK and the other is doing better. But what apalls me is that some people vote for all the posts of all the contestants in an effort to get some promoting votes back. It has gone to such a stage where if somebody votes for me I don't know whether they really liked my post or are they expecting me to vote back on their post.
I understand I am raking up a sensitive issue and I might get a lot of flame or absolute silence. But I thought I should speak up against I promote you, You promote me scheme. It is the google equivalent of link exchange which google penalizes. It's high time Indiblogger does something on similar lines.
@Arti
Thanks. The reply thing had me really confusing.
@Ahimaaz
As you said, any system can be taken advantage of. JC Penney (was it them?) tried gaming Google page rank. So..
But it can't stop us from trying to find a better system.
I think another thing Indiblogger should do , is to evolve like digg for Indian blogs. You know let non-bloggers also become members and they can vote on blogs. That will bring more number of people into the system making it difficult to game the system.
This is something that seems to bother me a lot too. Contests clearly say that Indivine votes do not matter. Yet people promote a post without reading it. They open the link only because they have to, otherwise they would have voted blindly. And you are expected to return the favour.
I would rather that people read my work, and comment and not blindly vote.
In general I also feel that "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" tendancy alone works in this blog world. Social networking is more important than content. I have been watching and reading blogs for half a decade now and this is the opinion I have.
Life is not always fair but in the end truth alone triumphs :)
So keep providing good content someday it will prove the worth.
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