{"id":614,"date":"2009-06-08T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/digg-removes-its-controversial-tool-shout\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:11:49","slug":"digg-removes-its-controversial-tool-shout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/digg-removes-its-controversial-tool-shout\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg removes its controversial tool: &quot;Shout&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Digg<\/span>, the popular social bookmarking site had utilized the feature of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Shout<\/span>.This allowed its users in order to share their links with one another and it was the only communication tool. Now the feature of Shouts is replaced with Facebook and Twitter. <o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">  <\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">Shout made <span style=\"\"> <\/span>it easier for users to send a story they liked the most directly to other people who employed Digg.In certain circumstances,it was very useful and it helped<span style=\"\">  <\/span>in some of the stories to<span style=\"\">  <\/span>catch more attention.On the other hand,shouts was mostly utilized for spamming due to which some users decide to turn it off.Another major problem with this feature was that <span style=\"\"> <\/span>those links, stories that received shouts were better rated .Due to this, all the users started shouting most of their<span style=\"\">  <\/span>stories.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">    <\/div>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 51); text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Digg in the beginning tried to reduce<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">  <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">the value of<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">  <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Shouts tool,in order to eliminate the above problems,but finally<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">  <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">removed it completely.Now<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">  <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Digg had<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">  <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">added buttons to enable sharing of stories on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Facebook<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"> or on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Twitter<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">.This big move has a possibility of driving more people to Digg,though it enables people to drive people to other sites.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg, the popular social bookmarking site had utilized the feature of Shout.This allowed its users in order to share their links with one another and it was the only communication tool. Now the feature of Shouts is replaced with Facebook and Twitter. Shout made it easier for users to send a story they liked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}