I just don’t want to be part of it. You seem to suggest fighting the tide, but it is like fighting the tide: pointless, because you can’t win. The junk just keeps on rolling in..

I’ve been writing on the web since Hector was a pup – long before Digg, Sphinn, any of it.. and I hope to be here long after none of that stuff matters. If not – if “crap” is still clogging the pipes – well, I’ll just keep ignoring all of it.

Everyone needs to play their part by ensuring rubbish doesn’t get voted up on Sphinn, too many people just read the topic titles and Sphinn, the article doesn’t even get read (probably like the majority of the members on Sphinn sphunn this article without reading it)… I don’t know whether the recent discussion on all of this will make a difference though, we shall have to see.

I don’t think it is the resolution to shy away from the problem by not desphinning etc in fear of getting slated, abused or whatever. Take my recent example, a spammer on Sphinn went into my profile and clicked thru to my website and used the contact form spamming my company with childish abusive crap (http://sphinn.com/story/91857) all because I was desphinning spam. I’ll carry on doing it though and when enough people put their foot down and stop supporting the repeated/crap submissions on Sphinn, I think members will appreciate the quality of the front page content more so.