Digg Users please make sure you’re not doing these things…1. You cannot expect me or any other serious Digg user to accept your shouts if you have set your profile to not receive shouts in return. Are you kidding?

2. Wherever possible, serious Digg users will always respond to a shout. But just occasionally, the article in question will be offensive, or will be diametrically opposed to our personal beliefs. Even if you send us 10 shouts we won’t be voting for it, so take it easy.

3. And while we’re on that topic, here’s one I think I may be slightly guilty of. Don’t keep sending shouts about the same topic to everyone. Please try and keep track of who you’ve shouted, so they don’t get 100 shouts about the same item.

4. Do not make offensive comments about what we are Digging. If you don’t like it, simply unfriend us and that’s the end of the story. That’s how social media works.

5. When you send a shout, do it if possible through the Share icon. If you do it through your friend’s page, put the link to your Digg item, and not the actual source URL. That is an infuriating waste of time, and some of us are very busy.

6. Don’t use SMS-speak when you’re sending shouts. Some of us hate it and don’t have time to decipher it all. Unless you would like me to reply in Arabic (cos I might), then use plain English that everyone can understand.

7. If you’re sending us an old story, it just better be riveting. We don’t have time for twenty day-old stuff that no one paid attention to anyway.

That’s it. Not too difficult, but doing it right can make a world of difference to how you’re viewed in the Digg universe.

If you follow these guidelines you will have a much easier time of it, and who knows, people might like you enough to actually help you become a Digg power user. Good luck. :)