Every once in a while, I get a very positive e-mail from what I am guessing is a real, genuine human… a visitor of High Vibe It, a site that runs on the pligg platform. But most of action seems to come from spammers. In fact, I am guessing they must be using automated tools… otherwise, I fail to understand how the time it takes to submit a story is really worth the link — especially now that I am discarding them so quickly.

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In case you are for some reason both interested in Pligg and also *not* subscribed to Social CMS Buzz RSS feeds…. I thought I would bring this post to your attention:

AutoPligg Spam Tool: Pligg Spam Just Got A Whole Lot Worse | Social CMS Buzz

As odd as it might sound, I actually assumed that a tool like this already existed –
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I ran across this pligg module today that adds a dynamic sitemap to your pligg site…

PatchLog | Xml Sitemaps Pligg module

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Working on a new site, based on the Pligg engine:

Social News That Resonates

Social news and link sharing site tracking the happenings of the social software and web scene. Find news, services, and guides about sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and more. It’s meta-social!

This is a quick post highlighting some lessons learned after working with Pligg, the open source digg clone, for over a year now.

If you are considering using Pligg, I would offer the following:

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