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I’ve been using Feedit for Digg’s RSS feed for a while and love it, but there are other article sites that also make you click through their page before you can get to the meat of the post. Sphinn is one of them, so I whipped up a Yahoo Pipe to improve their feed.

I am a fan of Sphinn, although I am no SEO because it has a lively bunch of informed and technical users. Picking up a few hints on pleasing the Google Gods is useful too. I read the front page articles via my feed reader because I feel that it is quite redundant to vote for stories that are already hot.

I appreciate that this pipe may be controversial amongst the Sphinn community because it will reduce page-views (and maybe revenue) for the site, but I made this pipe to suit my browsing habits and if others find it useful, then so be it. The pipe adds a link to the article on Sphinn so you can easily vote once you have read the story.

The pipe takes the feed of hot stories but you could clone it and change the URL to tweak it for the upcoming ones. Personally, I prefer to use the upcoming page as I find it much easier to mark spam - something that is a big problem for Sphinn and many other Pligg powered sites.

So, here is the feed: .

What do you think, am I being irresponsible and depriving Sphinn of eyeballs? Or maybe you find it useful? Leave a comment and let me know. Oh, and don’t forget to Sphinn this post!