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title: "Thank You Silahsiz Kuvvetler for Showing Me the Light"
date: 2008-08-03
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# Thank You Silahsiz Kuvvetler for Showing Me the Light
Spam in comments isn't nearly as problematic as spam posts, because the posts go out in the RSS feed, which devalues the legitimacy of the feed. A lot of crap floating down Writer River makes the whole river smell.

With the rise of spam, I lost some interest in the social news site. You'd think Pligg would offer better filtering through user registration or confirmation, or allow a site admin to first approve new posts, but no. In fact, Pligg itself is a bit clunky. Creating pages, adding new sections to the sidebar -- it's not very intuitive. The documentation is skimpy and often nonexistent. Worse, it seems there are only one or two half-active developers for Pligg, and a flailing, non-communicative community. There's no momentum.

So when Silahsiz Kuvvetler (whoever you are) hacked the site through a security vulnerability and brought it down, I almost felt a sigh of relief. Now I had good cause for abandoning Pligg to try something else.

But what? Another Digg clone? Like [Mixx.com](http://mixx.com)? I didn't want an inflexible hosted option. And the whole voting thing -- it wasn't really catching on. I think voting itself is a hassle. All I want to do is skim and read.

I'd heard about a Twitteresque WordPress theme called [Prologue](http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/), which might provide an alternative. Coincidentally, Prologue was coded by [Joseph Scott](http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2008/01/28/prologue-a-wordpress-theme/), a bug exorcist for [Automattic](http://automattic.com) who happens to live nearby and who I often talk with at local blogger dinners in Salt Lake.