Very true, not to mention the S/N ratio of Digg and Slashdot traffic (especially Digg traffic) is really pretty horrible. My personal experience (3 slashdottin

Very true, not to mention the S/N ratio of Digg and Slashdot traffic (especially Digg traffic) is really pretty horrible. My personal experience (3 slashdottings about 5 years ago, 2 diggs and a techcrunch in the last year) are that those traffic spikes have very few nuggets of valuable hits in them.