September 25, 2008
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Plugz
Edit: Just a quick note. I was attempting to be funny in the post and was
actually attempting to make fun of my own shameless self-promotion. I
use Plugz and I want to encourage others to use it. As I look back at
the post, I see that it could look like I was slamming xanga and those
who created it. In fact, the post is harsh. I should have worded it
more carefully to emphasize my own shameless self-promotion and not
have spoken against plugz. I appreciate the xanga team and all the
products that they continue to release to enhance our xanga experience.Xanga is allowing sites to promote themselves by “purchasing” space on everyone’s private page (unless they are premium users then they can opt out) by using credits.
If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is shameless self-promotion.
I mean if you can’t get people to come to your site on its own merits, then why should you be able to do it via credits or plugz.
Besides, we don’t want the same people to show up in our inbox day after day several times a day.
Say “no” to plugz and say “no” to self-promotion.
Does it bother you that your fellow xangans would self-promote using plugz?
Comments (101)
Butt plugs?
hahahahahahaha, love the irony of this post!
greasy butt plugz
lol. it’s annoying alittle
kind of but people like yourself don’t need plugs ’cause i’m betting you have almost 3000 plus followers and that includes me lol. =P
What bothers me more is that they have a “z” in the name.
Uggghhhh.
YOUU SHAMELESS XANGAN!
(cos i see you on plugz)
=) Love you Dan
Yeah, “plugz” (way to make it cool by adding a Z on the end!) sound like they’re going to piss me off.
@EarthsAzureLight - Damn. You beat me to it.
But yeah. Dan is awsome. =)
Dan Unplugged…z
It’s only annoying me because it’s the same Xangalebrities everyone already knows about. It’s just another way for them to show their face in your inbox. As if they don’t have fame already. They have to own any space they can get a hold of. Meh
YES. my god, it’s annoying enough to have the ads placed to the side of my site instead of up top like it used to be. actually, ads in general strike a nerve with me… if it weren’t for the fact that they keep xanga running, i swear…
/cough
but yeah, i would hate the plugz. oh, how i would hate them.
YOu are soo amusing.
Wow, here’s some epropz.
1 Dan,
2 Dans,
3 Dans,
4 Dans.
I don’t even know what plugz are… wait a minute….
ooh. I just noticed them.
No… because I did it… because I am shameless.
I only did it because Ayca of Xanga Team asked me to help. I don’t like it honestly after seeing it. It’s like buying a spot on featured weblog.
Haha, wonderful presentation.
To answer the question: It’s annoying.
The only thing that bugs me is the ‘z’ at the end of it. Plugz? Ugh.
Damn it, is Xanga TRYING to piss me off?
If you don’t have enough friends to make yourself heard, find people who want to see what you have – don’t go prostituting yourself to anyone who will listen.
I will use it because I have NO shame!
Oh that and I have like a zillion credits with nothing to do with them…
@CaucasianChopstix -
@Seargent_Peppers -
I agree. Argggg.
@hello_insanity - Agreed.
Thank goodness I’m opt out from that by default.
I’m just glad I have LIFE.
I might want to have sex with them.
Dan, you worthless shit, you’re like a new administrator at my job. We are here because students pay to be here and we are here for students, but dumb fuck administrators serve themselves first, then comes the student, just like you and your suggestions.
You are SO white.
@mayanao - Amen.
i kinda find them an obnoxious addition to the right-hand side of my screen
Well, you’re the master of self-promotion, Dan.
Seriouspost: This plugz idea is retarded, and whoever came up with it should be hit with a heavy stick until they come up with better ideas.
I just ignore them.
this cracked me up!
No. I find it annoying though.
how the f**k do i get rid of it. its like spam.
Heh, isn’t shameless self-promotion what America is all about? Just look at everyone who is idolized in our culture. *sigh* Xanga’s just giving me the chance to be just like all those great people I admire, like Lindsey Lohan and Miley Cyrus!
Totally.
i really hate plugz. clutters the home page too. it’s cluttered enough already as it is!
@ToBeReborn - I can’t stand Xangalebrities either. It’s like high school cliques, for pete’s sake.
No plugz for me. I have no friends and I don’t need friends!
When did it become cool to hate every new feature the xanga team comes up with?
@hello_insanity - I think they did the “Z” thing to make it sound more urban.. you know… in celebration of our presidential election.
Hehehe.
I like them *shrug* they don’t bother me. I haven’t made one yet though. They are better than ads about viagra.
it costs 500 credits for a day… just one day!
i don’t have a lot of credits.
i’m saving up for more minis. hahaha..
@Seargent_Peppers - don’t u mean, ughz?
I didn’t know you were a quadruplet. I can’t tell you guys apart.
nah, it doesnt bother me at all. do whatever they want with their xanga man…
Not sure what that really is but I don’t mind it so far.
Plugz away!
To be honest, I dont even notice the plugz haha
irony is amusing.
adding a “Z” at the end of “Plug” to be urban and/or hip is not.
frankly, i barely noticed. if admins are whoring out Xanga, why not? but we should be given the option to shut that off. of course, i’m using this for free so i can’t really complain too much. people who blog that much already have too much time on their hands (“philosopher” is NOT a real job!), apparently they have too much money too.
anyway, it hasn’t bothered me yet other than the Z thing. i shouldn’t really bash on other folks too much. it is what it is.
And so say I !!
I don’t really care that they’re self-promoting. But what DOES annoy me, is that I can’t get rid of them. >_<
It annoys me because it makes no sense – the only people I see showing up are so-called “xangalebrities” who already have more than enough traffic. Those who have extra credits to use to “plug” their site with this feature are the ones who get a lot of traffic already to acquire those credits. It would be great if xanga could come up with something that would actually help LESS-TRAVELED sites get traffic – crazy idea, right? But everything they come up with only helps those who are already immensely popular remain so. Can you tell that I’m frustrated by the fact that finding worthwhile blogs to read is a wild goose chase these days?
Eh, I actually don’t mind much. I like to click on the interesting ones :]
@Lost_In_Reverie - well said.. I like finding different blogs but to be honest it’s usually the same ones over and over again, no offense to this guy :p
No. It’s a premium feature and they can use it. Besides, my eyes are trained to ignore that and all banner ads.
I just checked it out. I guess to each its own. You wanna exploit yourself or have others exploit you that is fine. You wanna opt out from it. That is cool too. Would I do it? Not with some of the things I write.
Not really, no..
sometimes xanga does things that make me wonder if spending for lifetime was wise.
lol.
If it’s just their personal blog, yes, that would bug me. But if it’s like about a specific topic all the time, more like a magazine kind of thing or whatever, I guess that’s OK, to find their audience. But … I don’t know what plugz are.
No. As a beta-tester for this feature, I had a lengthy discussion with the developer about potential abuse, and the approval process, and the crediting process. I feel really good about it.
PLEASE tell me you are kidding. Exactly how is this going back to Xanga’s “blogging roots”?
Didn’t I see you in the plugs yesterday?
i tend to ignore ads. so i dont care
@deflate@revelife - lol wtf
Ah, yeeah I wouldn’t want other peoples things on MY site, then it wouldn’t be MY site -it would be OUR site. And we wouldn’t want that.
*In God we trust*
-jennA\
I haven’t been on xanga in a week or so, and I logged on yesterday and noticed the new ads. Ugh. Yet another change I’m not happy about. Oh well.
@VersaGratis - Well it certainly would beat having DEATH! ….well it would!
haha.
Didn’t YOU help launch this program too?
i see you on the plugz!!!
I think it is too soon to tell if Plugz is a good thing or not. I’ll get back to you in a month and let you know.
Shameless self-promotion? What’s wrong with that?
Hahaha, this was funny.
But I still disapprove of Plugz.
I’m turning into one of the “cool kids”.
No recommend button, no ads…
it’s something new so everyone is trying it out but ‘a-hem’ didn’t i see you on the plugz column yesterday??
sounds worthless, i dont have to see them, i dont use the inbox, i use the “old” private page
@VersaGratis - it’s good to see you still look down on those less popular than you… i guess those people are worthless and dont deserve a voice, huh?
whatever they want to do. i ignore the plugz anyway.
shameless self promotion is a good band
Nope. Their $ not mine.
Xanga = MySpace.
It’s pathetic.
I thought we were all meant to be different, not totally the same. At least that’s what I was taught…am I wrong?
They waste space in my FireFox window.
Thats right…. it just makes me MAD…
Unless of course…. Its MINE…. Throw my site on everyones weblog… email everyone, send out flyers, fly a banner across the sky, write my name in the snow…. (ewww)
I want to take over the W O R L D !!
I saw your plug!
I like it, I plugged one of my posts and got an extra 25 comments or so and maybe 7 subscribers, so it works fairly well.
I just saw them when I checked my subs. And WHAT THE HELL. The only people’s posts I read are from my friends, RiceBunny, CakaLusa, and you.
Um. Yes. I would never, ever fucking do that.
I like the gratuitous amount of profile pics here.
You’re just trying to be the Dark Lord of Xanga, taking away the little man’s ability to promote himself. Or herself.
@sean808080 - As a Lifetime Premium user you don’t see Plugz, so I’m curious why you would object to them. We needed to add a revenue generating aspect to the private page and we decided Plugz were more relevant than regular advertisements.
@sweetxrefuge - What! Xanga != Myspace Log into Myspace and count the number of ads on the private page. The last time I looked it was over 10 ads or promotional spots.
@Innuendo__X - Like advertisements on your public pages, you can buy premium and remove the ads.
@dan - No, it’s not quite there…yet.
Well, it is the nature of the dog-eat-dog world we live in. Push others off for our own.
@StephanieMarie7891 - Same, I figured it was worth a test run. But I am honestly getting sick of my own plug(z). If good blogs are posted, then great. Otherwise… bleugh.
Nope,don’t like it….
@dan - how do plugs produce revenue? they are paid for with nonmonetary means. if it is about revenue it would make more sense to have them made a part of premium or something, thus encouraging people to pay. as a way of helping the community epic super mega ultra fail. basicly by saying we will let you advertise your site using credits that are gained by people commenting on your site you create an even greater gap between the “haves” and “have nots”. people just getting started or who have been here and ignored for some time get further lost in a sea of promotion for those who already have a wide readerbase.
No… I still haven’t seen a plug… I wonder if there’s something wrong with my page… hmmm… maybe theres something wrong with me… that’s far more likely.
nope…. it’s kind of an interesting concept… but it hasn’t worked yet
LMAO! This is funny…….not to be confused with suggestivetoungue’s recent”plugz” post lol.
hummm plugzzz….maybe one day when i am bord and i post somethign that i want to know everyones opinion on…yep that is when ill use it….
ain’t no shame in my game!!!! <—im so wack for that.
@dan - Well I learned about them like everyone else and looked around for them thinking I had to turn them off. Thanks for clarifying that I don’t seem them as a paid lifetime member. Truth be told I scratch my head at some of the ‘features’ that xanga works on. There are so many features that other sites offer that would be more useful to xanga users and would drive traffic up. Advertising modules which is what I think plugz really is, are not going to do that.
For example, look at blogger. There is so much flexibilty there for FREE users. I am really hoping that xanga starts to be more extensible so that those of us that have been blogging for more than a few months can start tweaking our sites to our taste and not be spoon fed ‘themes’.
Also, as a paid member I really dislike having to see MOMAROO and REVELLIFE at all! It reminds me that my lifetime membership doesn’t shield me from all advertising on xanga. Shouldn’t it? These things should be part of plugz, no?
Anyway.. my .02 Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions at all. Best of luck with plugz.