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.
wow…i’m honoured to be in your list =)
which brings me to…”man, i havent seen you for so long”
cc> I have more or less stopped looking at the top 10 now. And just like you, I go there for the people.
fari> I agree with that. Another way would be to expire accounts after 30 days and stop pinging them. If people are only using ping as a avenue to promote their blogs and not wanting to be a responsible member of the same community, then well, ping.sg can say goodbye to them.
aaron> There will be people who accuse me of being clique-tish. But I’ll like to keep myself update about my friends.
Jeslyn> Now I will mouse-over each post and see who is the poster. If it’s another one of those jerks I simply don’t read them.
bobo> keeping updated about friends is what friendship is about.
snow> Yep. Until a newer version of ping.sg do something about it. I am saying NO to the top 10 until then.
xy> It has become tiring to do that. I had 20+ blogs in the [-] category, and I heard some has gotten like 200+. I can no longer be bothered to [-] them. In fact, I’ll simply ignore what’s ping’ed on ping.sg until a newer version of ping comes around. We can do our part by not ponging those postings.
Berlin> the list will be renewed regularly. I will add blogs as it goes along.
Agree with you.. I have notice recently on the trend too.. But so sad.. II was not in ur list.. *Sob Sob*
heh, glad to know my kor is reading my randomness 😛
all i do now, in ping.sg, is [-] weird and explicit posts and read the good and constructive ones…
hey thanks for reading my blog=)
but i do agree that i rarely pong the top ten entries on ping.sg anymore. Instead, i will only read blogs that i really like directly.
Plus, if u glance through the top ten entries, they mostly contain explicit content. And this is not fair to those who really write good stuff but fail to attract as many readers as those from top ten=(
Bobo is uber excited to see her name there le 🙂 really. Esp someone so chim come and visit she feels honoured 😉
Most of the time, I only read one or 2 posts from Top 10 and those posts are mainly from dk. I don’t see a need for Top 10 at least not for me since I will scroll through the pages for good reads.
Thanks for your vote of support~
But yea, the things people do for pongs or to get that extra $…
Hmm~
An extreme solution would be starting afresh every year. Uzyn can also use that chance to launch a new improved version of that website. So all members posts pong counts will be deleted. Only the loyal and “true” bloggers would even notice that a delete has taken place, and re-register. It’s also being fair, so that someone who blogged about Pokemon hentai doesn’t hold top seat forever.
sigh.
nowadays when I go ping, i either look at the forum, or go straight to ping.sg/shouts.
The only thing that keeps me in ping.sg is the people, not the pings.