I have grown increasingly disappointed with the postings making to Top 10 in ping.sg. The titles are either outrageous or borderline scandalous, or they would come repeatedly from certain bloggers whose posts leave one wondering why they generated so much interest or what makes the literary skills of the blogger so impressive.

I had a chat with Chillycraps over this and one of us have gotten disillusioned enough to consider quitting ping.sg entirely. The things we discussed were nothing new, such as the removal of the Top 10 entirely, as the most direct and effective means to downgrade the value of pongs, and reducing its effect in being some kind of click magnet for those money crazed ‘bloggers’. We talked about upgrading the search feature to allow searching by date, pingster name, and then sorting them by either time, or pongs. The idea was simply: to completely eliminate the importance of pongs and the side effect the Top 10 being a magnet for clicks..

We also talked about how the influx of new users to ping.sg – a testimony of Uzyn’s success – caused a drop in the standards of the posts made, and the possibility that some quality postings may now languish ‘unponged’ amidst the flood of postings. That was when we also touched on the matter of why a sudden deluge of postings at one go from a blogger can be irritating, especially when the postings are completely devoid of personal opinion or write-ups but just a redirection to certain links. The fact is that it simply just push everyone else’s post down to another page before they are even noticed.

So, we come to the conclusion that the Top 10 feature is as good as defunct, and the increase in pings may have in fact diminished the effectiveness of ping.sg as an avenue to access good blog posts, and completely eliminate it as a means to keep updated with posts from our friends.

Thus, I conclude that the situation has deteriorated to the point where I should revert back to the use of my trusty Mozilla Thunderbird RSS Reader. It’s definitely a far more effective way to filter out undesirables compared to clicking the [-] on them in ping.sg. The only people on it will always be the people I want to read. There will be no chronic payperpost bloggers, fiction writers wannabes, and warts of all sorts.

Anyway, we are anxiously waiting for Uzyn to release an upgraded version of ping.sg amidst his tight work schedule. We hope the new version will eliminate some of these annoyances. So, Chillycraps and I are not quitting ping.sg just yet. (I am sure that’s to the disappointment of some.)

Here’s my preliminary list of pingsters added to RSS so I won’t miss anything when these people have posted. I doubt anyone is (or would actually be) concerned if they are not on the list. After all my opinion is insignificant anyway.