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Am I paranoid? Probably. Nonetheless, what I see at Mixx currently is exactly what I would expect at Digg. Of course on Digg you wouldn’t see it, as there the bury brigade can destroy the community while hiding behind anonymity. I would only see the consequences. Not at Mixx though.

Today I want to introduce to you the typical social media loser-abuser who destroys the community, any community, but I really support Mixx so I won’t sit still and do nothing about it this time.

In fact as negative votes or buries are displayed at Mixx you can look up who buried you. At first I thought that I will just reverse my usual social media strategy of being friendly to those who vote for you, blog about you, or support you otherwise online. I thought I will just bury their stuff too if they bury me for no apparent reason but it didn’t work out, I’ll tell you why.

First, let me tell you a little about me once again so that people can’t dismiss this too easily:

I am an online publisher for more than 10 years by now. I was very active in online literature, media activism, politics, avantgarde, web development etc. etc. long before starting to do SEO in 2004.

I explain that because people tend to see the word “SEO” and then cease to think showing signs of something you could call online road rage.

SEO? Most people who hate it do not get it, either they’re ignorant or they’re Internet newbies so they will attack people who explain SEO to others instead of, say, criticise wacky SEOs (many of whom exist and I criticise too).

I contributed to multiple mailing lists, forums, websites, ezines, blogs, web 2.0 communities of all kinds for free for ten years. So people who assume I am some kind of parasite because I do SEO, and SEO equals Spam for those slow minded people, couldn’t be more wrong.

I contributed more to the Net of altruistic motives and still do than they will manage too in the next 50 years.

Now many people will still be quick to judge me thinking something like “he’s only in it for SEO and submits only his own stuff etc.”. Well, it’s the other way around. I submit non-SEO stuff, mostly art, photography and news while I rarely submit my own stories, did once I think because someone submitted a page which stole my content so I submitted the original.

Nonetheless I admit on my user page that I am a SEO so that there nobody can say I’m sneaky or something. I’m more like a doctor. I’m a doctor without practicing medicine at Mixx ;-)

That said now I want to present to you the typical “I bury you for no reason”-social media loser-abuser at Mixx or rather 7 typical traits of such a person:

1. Does not contribute to Mixx, has either no stories submitted, or predominantly his own.
2. Most of the social media abusers at Mixx have very low and insignificant numbers of Karma Points, around or below 50. In contrast I have already above 400 after just a week of contributing.
3. Has more stories buried than voted up or more or less the same number of both.
4. Buries stories without any reason given. Whenever I bury everything I will comment why I did it: For instance: Stolen content, duplicate, abusive, advertising.
5. Does not comment and in most cases has no avatar.
6. Will bury several stories of mine in a row, although they have different sources and topics
7. Has no friends on Mixx or if he has, he only has those he befriended but none or very few followers.

Now that said you probably think it happened at most two or three times. I can’t be that bad. But no, I just picked out 5 most recent social media loser-abusers who damage Mixx’s reputation and community. All of them started burying me yesterday.

Now what does this sound like? Sabotage? Are you paranoid? or are Digg users swarming in to destroy another community after they fucked Digg? I see plenty of them at StumbleUpon already. They abuse mostly female bloggers btw.

Now don’t get wrong, if those people change their destructive behaviour and start to contribute I won’t have a problem with them, but as of now they have to be exposed as the abusers they are before they destroy the nascent Mixx community which is by now still full of beautiful people I highly respect.

Here are the 5 Mixx lose-abusers of yesterday:

maestro: 17 Karma Points; Submitted 1 (a Google Maps pic of a huge phallus)
Voted against 4 of my stories in a row: While a dumb pic of a huge phallus seem to be OK, he does not like a satirical art video where aliens abduct cows. He does not like a story from Israel’s Haaretz about Bush lying, not admitting that the Iranians have ceased their nuclear weapons program back in 2003. He also hates a hugy ducky on display in a European harbor, an oustanding art piece. Last but not least he hates female lips.

alakazam:1 Karma Point; Submitted 0; Voted Up 1 (A story about Digg); Voted Against (more than a dozen)
He hates art or giant ducks, unable to explain why.

StatiK: 58 Karma Points; Submitted 8 (5 of them his own forum featuring some dumb “fun” videos)
This guy is really prolific, he buries so many stories I had to view several pages to find mine of 3 days ago. He buried 4 submission of mine in a row, 3 of them art submissions and one a hugely popular activist website and video, The Story of Stuff. I do not expect everybody to appreciate art the way I do, but 4 in a row?

kbilling2: 7 Karma Points; Submitted 0
He does not like a story at Salon.com about Bush lying, this time pretending to offer negotiations to Iran

drew.streib: 14 Karma Points; Submitted 0;
Does not like lips, or does he hate women or art photography? Sadly he didn’t bother to explain what was wrong with my “Lips” submission.

So you guys, go back to your caves or Digg or whatever but stop destroying Mixx you bastards! If you’re unable to contribute, stop sabotaging Mixx! Just go away!

Even if those guys are not paid by Kevin Rose himself they are exactly the breed I already expected to appear on Mixx sooner or later. Such people make the Digg experience so obnoxious. Don’t let them diggify Mixx! Please!

PS.: Of course I looked the guys up at Digg. While some have completely anonymous profile names others can be found on Digg as well.