When you promote everybody you promote nobody

@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.