Why I don’t vote on DZone
As announced on DZone, that “95% of visitors never vote, ever! Vote for just 3 new links per day, and you’ll enjoy a better DZone.” At first I was astonished with that figure, but then I remembered why I didn’t vote: registration required. I don’t know how others feel, but when I click on that arrow icon that signals to vote and then pop-ups a window to sign-up, I immediately closed it and said “no thanks.”
Seriously, I’m tired of having to do site registrations. And 99% of the time, I fill-in random information (e.g. “aoiweghoiawheawoegh”) quickly just so I can use a particular service like downloading a PDF, or posting to a forum at that moment. Really, as a user, that’s all I want to do. A month or two later when I return to the site, I would have to do the same thing again because I would have forgotten the user name and password I chose for that particular site (you don’t think honestly I would use the same user-id and password combination for every web site). bugmenot.com definitely helps, but I just don’t bother anymore.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
The dzone model is flawed - If I find something interesting I might click it - I use rarely the back button to get back to the dzone site to vote.
I wonder who is clicking the buttons - I doubt people who read the referenced page.
Most annoying of all: People are posting their own blogs onto dzone - I find that …