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There are many ways to promote and reward sites you like. You can Tweet, post on Facebook or LinkedIn, or subscribe to its feeds (for blogs and news sites). Most of us are aware of this as status updates has become a part of our life and we share all we like.

I felt many people are not aware of punishing the sites they dislike. There can be some bad articles written or something to hurt your interest, you can now punish the site in legal and social way. Here are the Top 10 ways of Punishing such acts of sites.

1. Bury in Digg.com

You can Digg and promote; you can Bury and stop promotion! This is however only available for submitted articles.

2. ThumpsDown in StumbleUpon

3. Remove Search Result in Google

I am not sure if it changes the rank for just the user or Google collects all these data and punishes the site. If Google does the second (which I think, Google does), this is a huge punishment for the site.

4. Seek Friend’s Help to Bury or ThumpsDown

Use your social profile to get friends to Bury the article so that it does not become popular. Don’t do too many though.

5. Promote its Competitor — Status Update in Facebook and LinkedIn, and Tweet about the site competitor.

This is the best part. Feed Mashable if you hate TechCrunch, and vice versa Nothing hurts in the industry more than the competitors taking your share of viewers!

6. Negative Review in Digg and StumbleUpon

Let the readers at Digg or StumbleUpon know whats wrong with the article. If you are right, people will support your cause.

7. Down in Reddit and ask friends to do it

8. Article on your concern in your blog

Writing article and promoting own cause gives a good mark. The best part doing this is — you get ample space to give your view. People reading it must get the complete picture. If you are able to do it, it can work wonders.

Even your friends can help promote this article, if you can make them do it.

9. Article on EzineArticles.com with your concerns

Same here as 8. Ezine Articles provide space to write articles for people who do not own any blog, and have no interest in owning a private blog.

10. Ignore the Site and Don’t Visit Again

This is the easiest and best punishment. Ignore!

5 Things you Should Not DO

1. Clicking too many Ads in the site to piss off Google Adsense or other Advertisers

Google will catch and simply ignore the clicks as fraud clicks. Nothing happens to the publisher. Other Advertising networks might too have the fraud click check.

2. Creating too many Digg Profiles and Continuous submitting and Digging to force blacklist the site

This is easier said than done. Digg will first verify the account that does too many spam diggs, and accounts are likely to be banned before blacklisting of the site. If you succeed, thats you luck. This is not ethical too.

3. Too Many Status Updates on LinkedIn and Facebook or Tweets with negative sentiment

This is a way of promoting the site that hurts you. This action will increase the visits to the site, and piss off your friends or followers with duplicate posts. There is loss from both sides.

4. Multiple Account Creation in Digg or StumbleUpon to Bury or Thumps Down

This will simply invite the account ban for all accounts. StumbleUpon and Digg may blacklist your IP too.

5. Start Legal Action by appealing in the court

I don’t say never use this way but make sure you have your story strong enough to win the legal battle before proceeding to the court. It will cost you money and time; it might not be worth doing. If there is really something serious that hurts your interest, you may go ahead.

Ending Thoughts

Do what ever you can and want to, but while doing it always remember –DO NO WRONG. The site might have done some wrong to hurt your interest or have put some bad articles; this is not a liscense for you to do wrong. Anything you do in Social Media lives longer than expected and some networking sites like Facebook keep the profile live even after your death. So any wrong you do will stay and might harm you in future.

Be ethical and live a value based life. This however does not mean you should accept humiliation from any powerful sites. Use the social media to counter such attacks.

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