Perhaps… the “Pingster effect” ? >,<

What you blogged, I thought was quite obvious to most people… but as you mentioned, it’s just human nature and communities are often like that. I don’t think it’s a good or bad thing, it just is.

Let’s put it this way… Top 10 on Ping.sg is a reflection on what is most popular in the Ping.sg community on any single day. And a blog post by a fellow pingster would definitely be more popular and perhaps entertaining than a blog post by a random joe (no offense to the Joes out there). But you see, I’d be more inclined to read my friend, fellow pingster, opinions and life more than a stranger’s.

=)

Rather, it is human nature and what seems to me the inevitable dynamics of groups that consist of human beings that concerns me.

Ping.sg was a convenient and, what now seems like definitely, a poor and unfortunate example.

Why am i saying all this? Because it seems to me that some bloggers are trying extra hard to get into the top 10, which shouldn’t be the real purpose of blogging. You blog and share your thoughts, not as an attempt to become popular or be at the top, right? So why bother if there is really a “DK-effect”?

i do understand that this post is just an observation. But i do sense a slight tinge of criticism. Correct me if i am wrong.

It is like that in reality, whatever we like and we find good entries, may not be what the others are interested because we all have differing tastes. Just because the entries we find good do not end up in top 10, does not necessarily means there is a core/group/clique pong.

Like I said in DK’s entry, if the entries are lousy, friends or no friends, I’m not gonna read/pong.

that being said, i feel it’s inevitable in a community, where cliques tend to be formed.

but like all systems, there are loopholes and even if we rectify this, something else is bound to crop up.

good observations, though!