Check out HatedOrLoved.com
OK so do we really need yet another social bookmarking online community (aka a Digg Clone)? At Franklin Spirko we decided that yes indeed we do and hence the launch of HatedOrLoved.com
The reasoning was simple, there are so many sites like Digg, Mixx, etc that utilize a community approach to share news, stories and just plain cool stuff. In theory they work great and spam is kept down because the community can “bury” (or what ever the equivalent may be for the site) the story and push it off the popular page and out of the normal listings. The theory behind this functionality seems solid enough but the reality is in practice many good (content wise) stories are buried.
These stories could be about god forbid on Digg, SEO, and labeled as spam simply because of the subject. This is one of the factors behind the success of Sphinn. Yet it is not just internet marketers that are beaten down on many social sites. Perhaps the story is political and against the majority thought on the site so it gets crushed. Why should this be? Just because a story is an alternate view does not make it spam, trash or poor content.
So the concept of Hated or Loved is remarkably simple. You don’t bury a story you don’t like, you “Hate It” which is far more and expression of opinion then a false need to push a story 40 other people found worthy out of the popular results. When we are done with our next set of modifications you will be able to view not just upcoming and popular stories but hated stories as well.
So each day you can check out the most hated and loved stories online, we though the concept was kind of cool so our new Web Developer (Bobby Wilson) went to work less then a week ago and we have the Beta (very beta) site up already. We invite you to sign up, sumit your content and play around with some hatred and love.
A few things to note about the site for right now
- When I say Beta I mean Beta the “Featured Hated” does not function yet. It requires a lot of work to basically recreate the algorithms for popular on the other side of things. So ignore the “Top 10 Hated for Now” it is just a place holder.
- The avatar function is not working right yet so you can’t upload a picture with your profile just yet. Bobby is working on it, the platform we are using is on PHPDug, if anyone has over come this issue we would love to hear from you about it.
- This site is designed to be SEO and Marker Friendly you most certainly are welcome to submit both third party and your own stories. We do not use nofollow and we do have permalinks for each story. So feel free to link build away in your submitting.
- When you find a bug let us know about it but give us some time. Again right now we are in really a pre beta mode but wanted to start getting some SEO exposure and some founding members right away so we decided to open up the site.
- We are looking for help with this project. I need both contributors and probably moderators in the near future if you want to be considered for either let me know. If you have a blog and blog about solid content (in any niche) we will consider adding your feed to the site for automatic inclusion. If your are interested just post your blog link in the comments and we will evaluate your site for auto inclusion.
So please let us know what you think of this new concept for a site, let us know your ideas to make the site better and by all means let us know what you love and what you hate.
~ Jack Spirko
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March 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Sounds like a great idea. Going to the hatedorloved.com right now.
(TRCoach) Tom
March 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Jack,
Glad to see you moving in this direction. I know that it will be a big hit. I look forward to seeing the final product
March 28th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Jack, best of luck with this, I have been really please with the way www.biggitup.com has gone, I only wished I had really niched it down to a really specific subject.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Rick,
Thanks for the kind wishes and we are happy to be a sponsor of BiggItUp! Hopefully our sites can really help each other in the long term. I really like the way you choose to serve the Internet Marketing community. I actually thought that angle but with PlugIM, MarkTD, BiggItUp, Sphinn etc I decided to try to find a new niche.
We are even looking at doing some radio ads to spring board this thing once our modifications are done and we get to “beta 2.0″.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
What is the real difference between this and stumbleupon ??
March 28th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Jack - this is cool - I’m actually really amazed that these sites like this can get stuff like a PR3 in 3 months and also get 1000+ uniques a day in just a few months, whilst offering only outgoing links. This is really Google as no one has ever known it.
I think it all makes sense really, Google ‘hangs out’ at sites that are busy, the web is made of links, so links are good and anyone trying to keep all there unsociable eggs in one basket should get buried! I think we all have a lot to learn about the more social side of the web and I love what Rick and Steve are doing at www.biggitup.com and you too Jack, at love and hate.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Wow! What a great idea. This gives me a whole other way to get content. Crappy content that people hate, and that I can write about hating as well!
Thank you, hatedorloved!
Seriously, this is the bomb-diggity.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I like the idea of “hate it” because it is a plain and simple expression of your opinion (in contradiction to “bury”).
March 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am
@krembo99
Well Stumble is really a lot different.
1. Where do I find all the thumbs down stories in stumble?
2. Where can I view both the good and bad in each category for today in a digg like fashion in stumble?
3. Purely from a marketing stand point Stumble does not give you link juice to your content?
4. Can you tell me how we are like Stumble in any way other then you vote up or down? Did you view the site? I mean sure it is in Beta but I don’t see how we are like Stumble in any way honestly.
Jack
March 31st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I’d like to see more space allowed for comments. And maybe a way to delete a submission - I accidentally added one twice.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Trisha, editing past posts may not be something we do as the potential for abuse is very high. On more room to comment increasing the characters allowed is easy and will be done as soon as we move off the dev server.