Comments on: Useless Digg buttons on blogs

By: Matt Brett

Matt Brett — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:37:06 +0000

I’m not a fan of those buttons at all (for any service, not just Digg). I’m of the mind set that if a person uses one of those services, they’ve already got a means of bookmarking, tagging, etc. via bookmarklet or browser plugin without needing you to provide buttons for them. They mostly just clutter things up.

There is a Digg plugin for WordPress that adds a “Digg this” link to a post that has already been submitted. I use it on my site to let Digg users know it’s already on Digg and they can digg it if they want. Makes more sense to me than adding a “submit to Digg” button which is rendered useless once the story has been submitted, as you pointed out.

By: http://crabapple.cc

http://crabapple.cc — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:52:50 +0000

How Crabapple.cc Could be Better than Digg

Okay, so it already is. But I know how Mr. Crabapple loves coding things, and basically- this is a darn good idea. If he hurries, he can code it before Digg finds out about the idea.

By: archshrk

archshrk — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:03:20 +0000

There is a Feedflare that does this too. I’m using it on this post (sorry it’s crowded - I’m experimenting)

http://archshrk.com/2006/07/steel-welding-process-underway-for-the-skywalk-at-grand-canyon-west/

It says “Digg This!” until someone diggs it and then it shows how many duggs it has.