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Thanks for writing this, I did see your comments in a SU spam community thread and I like your follow up here.

I don’t have anything to add to your comprehensive list – I’m still learning about it.

There is one thing that I have found confusing though, maybe you know the answer to this…. a few times when I’ve given a page (not found through the SU toolbar) a thumbs up it says that “Someone” had already discovered this post. I’ve googled for that after I couldn’t find an answer on SU and I’ve always wondered why I see that – who is “Someone”? Is that abuse of the system, a way for someone to submit their own posts without being viewed as a spammer, or just a bug?

JoLynn Braley’s last blog post..FitLinking – Physical Fitness & an Example of The Power of Beliefs

I’m very concerned by the fast growing number of hooligans who are constantly voting down content while adding extremely violent comments using the F word every two words. I don’t know how eBay will handle this growing hate, but they need to come up with something better than the current Flag This option.

Patrick’s last blog post..Using Humour To Extend Your Reach

I followed your link to the SU review of your article recatted as AIDS and have reported it also. I wonder if they move faster if there are multiple reports for the same review? And I wonder HOW reviews can be categorized properly to begin with and then changed like this later. Was the review “hacked” or is the SU miscat team not so carefully selected? Hmmm … troublesome all the way around, isn’t it?!

RE: the AIDS tag, actually, I did report it, and expressed a little frustration with them that they didn’t even look at the article before they changed it. I never heard back and its still in AIDS.

You would think they would have figured out by now that any user trying to recategorize something into AIDS isn’t up to much good and is probably NOT CORRECT about category in the first place. DUH.

I think their whole category/tagging structure is confusing. From my interview of an SU miscatter, it appears that categories carry much greater weight. The category topics are limited and set by SU, so they’ll correct an entry reported as in the wrong category. But tags are subjective and anything goes. It’s confusing to the newbie, and once you realize that you’ve tagged the same type of material in five different ways, it becomes confusing for the veteran stumbler as well.

By the way, flag that “aids” tag as hostile, if you haven’t already done so. Supposedly that’s the calling card of the aggressive “anti-spam” crusader.

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It may already be there – so sorry – but because you can register a site/blog against your profile, it would be very useful if you got a notification in your inbox every time someone stumbles a post from the same domain, together with the URL that was stumbled.

I have made some really stupid mistakes with stumble when I didn’t really understand what it was. And one of those was “stumbling” posts I had myself written in an attempt to see if others had stumbled it.

I get it now, but this would really help because you want to know what people like.

I know you can see the referral and destination URL in your web-stats, but it would be nice to have proactive warning so you can quickly go see what people are saying and have a chance to react accordingly.

By the way, I particularly agree with increasing the choice of what you stumble. I don’t mind the odd photo, but given a choice, I’d rather not see photos or videos and instead just see conent I’m interested in as I prefer a good read!

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What I’ve also noticed lately is people giving several thumbs down in a row to good articles. I don’t think that should be allowed, because it’s obvious they’re being malicious.

By the way – what is a Friend Whore?

CatherineL’s last blog post..The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

To access them tools -> Report last stumble

What is both good and bad is you can only do this via an organic land, so you have to be sent to the site through the toolbar I presume this is to stop abuse.

Tim Nash’s last blog post..PDFs and Search Engines

Whilst as far as I am aware my article was universally well received, and gained a large number of votes and reviews, it too way looked on as spam by the SU moderators, and manually removed from the internet buzz page almost as soon as it appeared there.

I have lots of followers on Stumbleupon, who want to read the content I stumble, because I look on it as an extension of my blog.

I have readers who actually subscribe to the RSS feed, and my SU page is listed as a blog on Mybloglog and Blogcatalog

What worries me the most about SU is censorship.

If I stumble something, my 755 followers should be guaranteed to eventually see what I stumbled, and if they thumb it up, their followers should likewise be guaranteed to eventually see it.

That shouldn’t be determined by people who don’t like the content I share with my readers.

What order they see it in should be determined by the correlation of friendships voting for the content.

SU staff above all shouldn’t prevent content shared being seen.

The SU toolbar should clearly show which relationships caused a particular page to be shown, so a user can determine if they want to continue following someone.

It is strange, today a post that didn’t get attention when it was news 5 months ago, despite receiving a number of thumbs up has suddenly received 1000+ visitors. It was suffering from having been stumbled but not reviewed, so it was never “discovered”.
I don’t know why it is suddenly receiving traffic, or even if the traffic is real due to caching.

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