Glutton for punishment, I guess

Once again, I post to reddit and once again moments later I am down-voted and my previous post is banished forever. So instead, redditers can enjoy the current #1 post:



UPDATE:

1. I checked my website statistics from last night and found that I had no visitors from reddit. Interestingly, the post I submitted last night has eight down votes and three up votes. 11 people took it upon themselves to vote up or down something that they apparently did not read.
   
2. I decided to remove the digg, reddit, and StumbleUpon submit links from the posts. I am not comfortable promoting these services given the data I've seen. Will I still visit these sites? Absolutely. Will it be my primary source of news? No, they serve more as an entertainment diversion than a place to get breaking news. Am I taking my toys home because I can't play well with the other kids? No because...
   

Marin Modus is my virtual chalkboard. It is a website I put up a few years ago to test out all of the new things coming out in my industry like google adsense, blogs, tracking technologies, and of course, social news. Basically, instead of just reading articles about new trends in online marketing, I need to see them, feel them, etc. so that I can get a strong understanding of it for when my clients ask me "what does X mean or do?" It's been a pretty good self-guided education and the extra benefit is that it only works if I write down my thoughts... needing content on a regular basis to test some of the things (like the true targeting ability of Google Adsense), I have to come up with different topics like the one yesterday or the football rankings (which are great because i can pump out lots of content with the rankings).. I also need site visitors to test things out like Google Analytics to determine how accurate it is. Basically, it's better to test things on my time then my client's time. Having gone through the trials and tribulations of participating in the leading social news communities, I am in a much better place to speak with authority to my clients about when and if they should buy advertising on these sites.

9/30/08 UPDATE: FINALLY! I figured out how to get some karma on Reddit. Last night I posted a timely link from a credible site, www.house.gov, with a provocative title (actually a quote from the piece) that included a statistic that people might find surprising. Stats as of today: 228 points, 257 up votes, 29 down votes. It even made first page for some time. More importantly, my karma went from 1 to 133 over night. I feel like a rock star. Wow. Here is the post.