Comments on: A Problem with StumbleUpon?

By: bongwa

bongwa — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:19:04 +0000

I’ve been using stumbleupon for about five years and am linked to the oldest part of the community there. I can tell you, we “thumbs-down” alot when we see a bunch of self promoting from one site, all submitted by the owner. It just hits a sour note.. look at MY JUNK how cool it is, BUY MY STUFF, its just not that subtle. We want to see things tagged because they are interesting and entertaining, not because you want to sell it to us, so the community stomps it out. This is what has kept it useful and not just another Ad filled piece of crap for years. If your site is really interesting, a couple of submissions will get it noticed, and who knows maybe some of your friends will give it a thumbs up. Bombarding stumbleupon with your “hey look at me” marketing crap is .. not cool.

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By: killfive

killfive — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:39:01 +0000

Oh this explains so much!!!! Now I know why stumble does not respond sometimes. They don’t tell you that you can’t stumble your own stuff and tech support will not answer your inquiries. This REALLY PISSES ME OFF! I’m getting tons of traffic from others sources and think I may give stumble the boot. Really not fair (not that they ban self-promotion, but that they won’t tell you about it!)

By: lindalulu

lindalulu — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:22:39 +0000

I have had my own problems with stumble and wrote an article about it. You can read it here:
http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Stumbling-in-Bad-Taste.617053
I even wrote to stumble about it, but till date have not heard back from them.

By: Abeontech

Abeontech — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:40:33 +0000

^ just to add….

I had a 500% drop in traffic after getting the blank submit page -_-

By: Abeontech

Abeontech — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:35:02 +0000

I also has the lame blank submit page.
It seems like one way to stop people using your service…

I know I will.

By: dennis

dennis — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:50:38 +0000

I too am getting a blank page when I try to submit. I think it’s pretty lame, I had no idea I was violating any rules. The least they could do is change the blank page to a message explaining the situation.

“Playing Dead” is not a very professional way to deal with your users.

By: Comics

Comics — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:49:32 +0000

Bah, I got the same blank screen. I wasn’t aware that submitting my own content over and over (different pages in the same domain) would be considered “spamming”. What if I’m posting interesting news? The whole thing sounds idiotic to me. So I’m saying Bye-bye to SU and hellow to Digg, Reddit, Twitter, heck, even Facebook!

By: rstanley

rstanley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:04:39 +0000

I just ran into this myself. I was using SU to play with post titles and watch to associated results. My best title / post had 259 visitors and 400+ page views. Then they flicked the light switch. Traffic dropped tremendously.

Hopefully my SEO efforts will pay off at some point and work that has been put into social sites like blogcatalog will help to lift things. In the meantime I will be waiting for SU to lift the gate.

Rstanley.