Is a “pong” a stamp of approval?
Don’t have any mood to blog these few days. What’s up with all the “blog wars” nowadays?
First it was Xiaxue vs. Dawn Yang, now it’s DK vs. Daphne. Latter wins because their names start with the same alphabet. Alliteration > all.
All this drama is getting so old. Personally, I find it kinda ironic that the very person/people who claim to want Ping.Sg to “grow” and “get along” are those that blew this issue into ginormous proportions.
What could have been resolved through MSN conversations or other more subtle mediums was instead voiced out in a manner that would just make the (nonexistent?) divide even starker.
Nocturne’s post on this touched on some things that I’d like to mention. He stated the chillycraps and paced both unponged his post after reading it.
I wasn’t aware that pongs were akin to “stamps of approval”. To me, it’s simply a “read”. I almost never (with that one exception, noc
) bothered to unpong any posts because they weren’t say, “worthy” of my pong.
Haha. Worthy. What a big word for one click. Anyway, before I started using Google Reader (which is awesome, by the way), I ponged almost every post that was on the front page, regardless of whether they are in the “insightful” or “crap” bracket. I see all. I know read all. I just Ctrl-click everything. Tabs are teh bomb.
I remember some person did an analysis on who ponged entries in the Top 10. I can’t find the link though. I remember I was right at #1. -_-” The thing is – I have no life. I. read. everything. 有错吗?
Anyway, to those who unpong “lousy” posts – keep doing what you’re doing. I don’t have anything against it. I’m just trying to explain why I pong certain posts, lest anyone (shockhorror) thinks that I’m “encouraging crap” by giving it my “stamp of approval”. I’m just a bored girl with so much time that I read everything I see.
Your pongs may be “stamps of approval” My pongs are not. They merely represent what I have clicked on. Thazall.
A disclaimer, since disclaimers seem to be so necessary nowadays. Please don’t take what I say too seriously. Especially the last part, where I say I have no life. I do have a life. I think.
Bah, fine. I have no life.
*goes to sulk*






about 2 years ago
hua lalalal~
about 2 years ago
wahahaha tell me bout it man.
In the previous version I sometimes made it to the top 10. Now I merely got 5 pongs. Only 2, 3, or no pongs at all.
But my reads are 100++. 0_0
I wonder who these people are! Or did the people unpong my post?
about 2 years ago
Now it looks as if I’m singling them out… just examples, wor.
about 2 years ago
Wendy, you are right when you say that pple pong or unpong for a reason. Sorry ah, say something else here…
Nocturne: Eh, when I saw it, I actually kinda felt being like “singled out”, but I know you did not do it on purpose lah…
about 2 years ago
Noc> I know lah. They just represent a larger group of people who unpong.
You never single them out. You double them out!
Ok bad joke.
about 2 years ago
Quite a lot of people use ping.sg without registering. Some didn’t login. That why the reads is always higher than pongs.
And also a large amount of people found the pongs from google.
about 2 years ago
With regards to the Pongs, the ‘default’ system in place is liked that but as with many registered users, they have their own pattern of ping habits.
The large amount of unregistered user reads is not a bad problem but a good one actually. There’s essentially a decent readership who may not owns a blog but catch up with the river of blog feeds in Ping.sg
about 2 years ago
Seriously, I don’t see any reason trying to unpong a post. I would just leave the website though.
Likewise, my pongs referred to the posts I’ve read, not the ones which are deemed “approval” from me.