Comments on: 8 Things About StumbleUpon That Annoy Me

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:01:52 +0000

@Internet Marketing Joy - yup

By: Internet Marketing Joy

Internet Marketing Joy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:28:42 +0000

This is oh so true..^^ I also find these things annoying..especially the 200 friends limit..^^ now I have reached that limit!

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:29:41 +0000

@Nasir - good point!

By: NasirJumani

NasirJumani — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:52:09 +0000

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By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:15:48 +0000

@The Phantom Linker - the 200 “friend” limit does sort of tie in to that famous rule of 150, or whatever it is

@Josh - as far as I know, all the “thumbs down” button will do is to change the random stumbling algorithm so that you tend not to get those kinds of sites again

@Joe - hm, I’ll remember the Cartoons vs. Humor difference

@Lady D 71 - are you saying that’s good or bad?

By: Lady D 71

Lady D 71 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:40:02 +0000

How about the fact that as far as I am concerned once you rate a page you NEVER have to “stumble” on it AGAIN!!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:33:44 +0000

Every one of the hundreds of lame web comics I have ever Stumbled is under Humor not Cartoons. As such, I have removed humor from my preferences since I obviously have different taste when it comes to what I think is funny than the average Stumbler.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:13:31 +0000

I think one of SU’s shortcomings has to do with the thumbs-down function. It isn’t entirely clear what thumbsing-down a page actually does. On one hand, I suppose it makes it less likely for a future stumbler to stumble upon the page your thumbs-downed (in which case people have a right to be annoyed at chronic thumbs-downers). On the other hand, if you hover your mouse over the thumbs-down button, you’ll see that it says “No more like this”. Well, what about if I stumble on a car related page showing a car I really don’t like? If I thumbs-down the page, is SU going to show me less cars I don’t like… or is it going to show me less car related pages, period? I assume that I’ll see less car related pages - which I don’t want to have happen! So therefore, I’m actually inclined to thumbs-up pages showing cars that I don’t like.

I often see people thumbsing-down cartoons they don’t find funny, as if SU is going to somehow interpret their sense of humour based on the cartoons they thumbs-down, versus the ones they thumbs-up. In reality, I bet these people are simply seeing *less* cartoons. Maybe that’s what they want, but I bet it isn’t. Bottom line, my feeling is that the only reason to thumbs something down is if you really don’t like the topic that’s just come up, and want to see less of it… in which case, remove that topic from your preferences.

By: The Phantom Linker

The Phantom Linker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:43:23 +0000

Yeah, the send to option is fantastic, my friends and I use it for actual sharing of sites. The 200 friend limit ties into this, I think it’s because Stumbleupon actually uses the dictionary definition of friend, “someone who is your FRIEND”, not the myspace definition of “someone who I saw once online and shared like one link, OMG FREIND!!11″.

By: brainadmin

brainadmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:17:30 +0000

@Kristen - I do use Firefox, just not everywhere that I use a PC