Well at work I cant surf alot of websites due to the lovely websense firewall. Granted I used to bypass it easily (IT fixed that lmao) and I really don’t want to take the time to tunnel. WOW im ranting again… Anyway, back on topic..
I get home to find a facebook message from a newly created account with no information on it. They want to know how I gamed the system and if they would release how I did it to everyone. The fact that is was simple scares me. The fact that people want to game the system bothers me even more. People like you are ruining the who economy of the thing, that’s what I was trying to get across. Instead of trying to cheat, Tell the entrecard admins that you are concerned. Seriously, that Ben guy replies to all my posts.. and usually same or the next day…
I chose entrecard because it was relatively small. Small communities get you more contact and more personalization. If I was looking for monetized clicks I wouldn’t have chose entrecard, I just would have chosen some horrible ad exchange. The whole point of entrecard is to expose you to people with similar interests. If you really need points, hire someone to do it for you, or BUY EC POINTS. They are actually really cheap.
As always, automation will never get you as far as personalized comments will. If you want readers, read others blogs, become friends with them, write posts related to their posts… Cross traffic always wins.
I know how to get the hits, but I simply don’t have the time to do it. If you don’t have the time to do it either, then blogging really isn’t for you. Its a two way street people. So far I have only subscribed to 4 blogs, and 2 of them I actually read. Whats funny about this, is the 2 I actually read and comment, THEY READ MY BLOG TOO AND COMMENT. Amazing concept.
BTW: those two are: dube.wordpress.com (found from digg post about best lost moments) and adamriggins.com (his comments perked my curiosity and I ended up liking his writing).
As you can see, I pooled from a very small sample size, and if I were to take the time, I could have alot more readers.
Here are some simple ways of getting traffic. They all take work:
- Read others blogs, and comment.
- Participation in forums, helping others, not just spamming your crap.
- Write posts often with amazing content. (I fail at this, but im not out for a following)
Easy.
Below is a list of things I would like to see die in a hurry on digg. I joined digg because I like how it was balanced and that regular people could submit things and get the word out if it was good.
1. Diggers who only digg to support a user. If their post sucks.. it still makes the front page because a mass of idiots decided it so.
Simple fix.. give everyone a points system… have everyone have the same amount of voting power per day. Give everyone credit points to spend on what you think is the best of that day.. have them be able to roll over to the next day and have it so you could spend only one point per topic still.
2. Stop reposting shit thats already been seen years ago. Yes I know not everyone has seen it in their lifetime.. but if its that popular that it needs to be seen again.. you will eventually stumble upon it again while browsing.
Make a category on digg in the pictures section called classic so I can remove it from my feed. All those who still want it, can have it.
3. Digg hero’s. I am tired of everyone following on the coattails of the giant names in the digg world.
Remove shouts to all users… seriously, shouts are just spam mail and its pretty bad. I cant have “friends” without accepting tons of spam. If you want to keep shouts.. how about using those points/credits I talked about earlier… if it really is such a good article, maybe it should cost you your saved up digg credits.
Make it so you cant see the submitter of the article until you have dugg it. Think about it.. if you dont know who posted it, then your entire bias is on the article. This is how the system should work anyway.
4. Add more time on the page timeout..
I sit and actually read articles before I digg them… I know… crazy right? By the time I get back to the digg page and hit the digg button, its already timed out and I have to refresh the page just to digg one article… then the are all moved down because of new material…
5. Highlight a user a day.
Give an underdog some credit once a day. Add some code (i know its hard) that shows an individuals doing his job and finding good articles and submitting them. This should get the attention we all crave as well as keeping it clean and to the point of the site.
I just got done adding almost 150 people to my digg account. Why? Because unfortunately digg cant work the way it wants to. Instead of allowing people to post and others to view and elaborate…the system was corrupted again by us.
Instead in order to even get noticed you have to have an army of people willing to digg your post. If you don’t and you simply submit your post it will be burried in a matter of minutes by bots and horrible posts. Not to say mine is any more horrible than others.
The way to win in the digg world is shameless. You have to pay, beg and otherwise extract digg votes out of people to even show up in the upcoming section as something worthy. To get exposure is just endless crap filled flaming hurdles… it sucks.
EDIT:
The spamfest seemed to render some positive results. I actually met a few good people from the bunch who share the same ideas I have and actually find great content. A few even contacted me via IM and its good to have a nice contact ring. The only downside from this is the influx of spam I recieve now.. most of it bad, and some of it actually original and good.
I have a new chair… im trying to get used to it… its no were the goodness of my old computer chair.. but it sure is alot more quiet.
I present to you, the AK OCTANE “Gaming” chair. Yes I bought it because it had the word gaming in it.. im such a moron.
I love myspace, for social communication, but sometimes you just want to catch the person your talking to on fire and push them in-front of a bus all in one single motion.
I now present you with, 10 things I hate about myspace users.
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The whore train.
Though I haven’t seen this one in awhile, we all know what I’m talking about. That person who puts a blog out their telling you to add her cool kick ass friend because you should. No other reasons at all.
Now what do I hate most about this? Well lets see I dont know that person, and why on earth cant they add me if they are so fucking interested? Oh they aren’t are they. Once I add the piece they will never talk to you. Instead they will post bulletins constantly reminding you to add other peoples friends, or how some kid got their order wrong at the local McFattyFatFats.
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The pimp my myspace attitude.
Besides from being completely useless, these little bonuses we get allow our web browsers to go to a crawl, especially if your viewer is on a laptop with low amounts of ram. I hope it looks cool though.
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The too lazy to re-size their pictures asshole. Enough said here.
Come on, your high resolution image doesn’t fit on my screen, and I have DUAL SCREENS both at high resolutions. Your page is the equivalent of 3 wide-screen monitors. I really don’t think you are that stupid that you cant open your photo in paint and edit resize it. Hell windows has a nice feature called batch image re-sizer. Its a power tool, look it up.
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The multiple music player
Uhm… is your family too poor to afford speakers or did you think it would be cool to mix the two songs live on your webpage? You have a song loaded in the default myspace player (horrible idea myspace) and you decided to add another one from a pimpmyspace website? And to top it off they are both playing at the exact same time. I am listening to my own music thank you. If you have music on your page (we all do) then I would reccomend you add the music player to the top fold of your site so others can stop it as soon as your page loads.
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Are you color blind?
Yes, its a brilliant idea to have a neon orange background with bright yellow text. I don’t need my retina’s anyway. Come on look up color wheel in google image search. The colors on opposite sides of the wheel are the colors you should use.
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Random background that is repeated
Wow this ones hilarious. If I have to highlight your text to read it, because some of the background is black and so is your text I deserve to stab you in the throat with a blunt object. I know you cant see it, so what made you think it was a good idea?
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Private Profiles
I know you dont want e-perverts to stalk your webpage, but its a social website for Christ’s sake. If you dont want that type of people, then dont put your personal information on a website. If that’s too hard for you, dont register. The whole point of a social network, is to expand your social networks. Not to talk to your friends from school about that oh so hawt kid sitting next to you. Fuck off.
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Status updates
Thank god the classic view doesnt have status updates. I could give a flying shit that you feel curious that day, or adventurous. Is their really any positive social reason to care about someones feelings at that very important? If your sad, go slit your wrists and blog about your keyboard not working from an obscene amount of blood.
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Reading a message and not replying
I know you read it, and it had a question in it. That means I expect an answer. The fact you havent answered tells me you don’t care, and I delete you. Its not like im going to miss you.
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You
I bet you have done at least one of these things. Hell, I am even at blame for putting music on my myspace. If you are one of the few who have managed not to do this, and you feel you would like to add me to your social network, please feel free to send me a message at: http://www.myspace.com/allthegoodnamesareused
If you just send me a invite to be your friend with no message expect not to have an additional friend.
This is a rough draft, I intend to add video’s and such when i get on a pc worth a damn. Anyhow, I have been playing TF2 since the beta release and overall I am not excited about the game, but hey it passes the time right?
The Concept
The game was based off of a great mod called TFC, I am not here to go into the details of the history of the game.. but it was originally for another game but they made it for the half-life engine now. The game rocked serious ass. Like any worthy mulitplayer game, it had extreme highs as well as extreme lows. One of my most memerable moments were getting killed by those damn giant laser beam weilding snipers.. see a red dot, and know your completely fucked kind of thing. Killing the snipers was just as fun however, get close to the snipers and they dont know what to do. Overall it was good times.
TF2 tries to recreate this, but give it a “fresh” feel as well as make it available for the masses retards to play without getting frustrated. Now dont get me wrong, extremely hard games are frustrating, but why has it become, if its not super simple, its not fun? I played alot of the games because the learning curve was so extreme, it gave you something to get better at.
TF2 makes me feel like a retard. Yes I am going to say it, THEY TOOK OUT GRENADES. Why? Because they were spammed… wow…so give them only one then douche. TF2 was amazing because each class was so different. The grenades were either defensive or offensive depending on the class. Caltrops for the scouts so they could run without being chased, demomans fire wall to keep people trapped, engies spinny thing of death, the CONC was amazing.. because the medic cant defend himself for shit and atleast he could use it to get away. Those are the most memorable parts of TFC to me..the grenades broke the battle into parts.. it wasnt a constant rush like it is now.
So what solutions are there to this? Well I am hoping somone makes a mod to include the grenades again.. or steam realizes they need them and add them in after a year to increase replayablility. To say they removed them so the new players wouldnt get frustrated is stupid.. everyone is a new player.. its a new game no matter how literal the transition is.
What the Fuck Happend?
What else do I miss? I miss the pyro not sucking ass. Yes he is a powerhouse close range.. but anyone knows.. see a pyro…run backwards and fire.. the most he can do is catch you on fire for a moment…MEDIC, you peice of shit, stop healing that other guy and heal me.
What the fuck happend to the soldier.. he shoots like 5 rockets out of one tube now.. how in the hell does he manage that? To top it off, the rocket flies lower than the tube… if you want to use the rocket as a splash damage weapon, you better jump or aim above where you want to hit… Another thing.. what happend to the rocket jump? Sure its still there, but its about as high as a fucking double jump now. ONE, count it, ONE demoman sticky sends you higher, and its smaller. Hell, 2 stickies send you rocketing to the moon… I have on many occasions sticky jumped to places on the map waaaaay above players, just to sit there lobbing shit down until I ran outa ammo, or somone was smart enough to look were the shit was coming from.
General What the Fucks.
The Engineer
The sap charges are really cool, but how many do the spies get? On occasion I have been healing my gun, a spy then saps my gun, and I break it instantly… then he resaps it and I do it again.. 7 more times this happens.
Now why didnt I kill the spy? Because I am getting free points for his stupidity. Granted he can kill me, but then he get shot to hell by my gun, and I am willing to trade my life for that.
Speaking of the engineer.. they need to put a limit on where around the gun you can set the dispenser.. because sitting ontop of my gun, while my despenser heals me, and I repair the gun is hilarious, but wrong. I block the damage, dispenser heals me, and I heal the gun.. its a interesting combo.
Another exploit I found, that really isnt a exploit but is hella funny, is the teleporter shield. I got a friend to build a gun nexto mine.. we both had dispensers behind us.. and we built our teleporters infront of the guns. The hitboxes on the teleporters are high, so the fire gets absorbed by the teleporters and the guns fire right through them. Another way to kill the gun quickly.
The Sniper
Another development that was very well done. The speed and the double jump makes this fucker very effective.. the engineers gun is still way faster than him, and can pick you out of the air, often using the guns knockback to keep you in the air until you die. Other than that, movement and accuracy are very nice and this class have improved a heck of alot.
The Heavy
I feel he was definatly nerfed in this version. Originally he was a badass. If you heard that gun winding up, you better run because your about to get multiple holes put into you. Now, the only thing really scary about the heavy is if he has a medic.. even then its more of a process of killing the medic and avoiding him. Now that most classes have above 100hp, the gun isnt really that effective.
The Spy
This class shines in the new version. He is very well balanced and can get out of almost any situation. The cloak feature is great both getting away and entering a base. The sap is very usefull if anything, you can use it to get past a gun, or help your team temperarily get to the gun to destroy it.
The Pyro
Once again, I would like to see the single fired napalm rocket to come back to this one.. Or have the fucking flamethrower go more than a few feet, what is that thing a dollar general brand supersoaker filled with cheap booze? Come on, its pathetic. Dont get me wrong though, if a pryo can get to you, you are dead. His damage is insane when touching you with the nose of his gun, but how often does that happen? Your best bet with this class is to burn them and just keep hitting them with your shotgun until the enemy either dies or burns to death.
The Scout
This character is actually usefull in this game. The combination of speed and double jump make him extremely usefull now. I would still like to see the caltrops used for this class. Right now, most people use him as an offensive class instead of a sneak and steal class like it was originally designed to do.
The Medic
This guy is alot better in TF2. His ability to heal at a distance is amazing, granted he cant defend himself worth shit. Reguardless, that is how I would want it. Who would want a class that could heal himself automatically and deal shitloads of damage? I would still like to be able to heal enemies but actually poison them like the original did. Bring back the conc grenade so the medic can escape when his teamate dies!
The Demoman
Uhm, this class is decent. I find myself using this class the most. I do this because it is a versatile class. You can go on offense as well as defense. I would like to see the primary gun go a bit farther than it does currently. Or atleast the ability to charge it like the sticky bomb can do. Sticky bomb jumping is extremely powerfull like I said before.
The Soldier
The most general class becomes a bore to me. The rocket seems to fire lower than the friggin tube, and to get a splash damage kill on an enemy I find myself having to either jump or aim above the crosshair to get it to land in the right spot. I dont know what thats all about. The fucker is extremely slow, I am fine with that however, because he can rocket jump right? Yea, about as far as you can throw a rock. The rocket jump needs a definate boost. You can barely get over the walls they designed for rocket jumping. The class is mostly good for shooting lots of rockets at an entryway.
Conclusion
The game isnt TFC and I accept that.. but I still would have had TF2 be more like TFC. I miss the grenades most of all, bring those back and balance the classes more.
The real downside of this game is the people itself. During beta it was mostly fun. People worked together and plans were made. The day of the release it felt like a mass of retards joined the servers, stacking classes and generally doing nothing over and over again causing the game to really start to go to shit.
Maybe valve is right.. maybe the grenades would make the noob worse. After all, I saw an engineer build a gun against a wall in a locked capture point (our spawn) when we were capping there last 2.
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