Quest for Top Stumbler

Hey all, it’s me Travo, yeah you know you want to know how I got to be a top stumbler don’t you. Well I will tell you about this journey.

Since I have been on SU for awhile now, about 3 years now on and off, I have seen many people that have rated more sites than anyone else. I wondered how they did it. Finally I figured that they had to be using a script as there is not one single way that any one person can rate 166,000 sites ever [kancerman = 166,507 pages, starspirit = 142,579 pages, and premo1 = 140,245 pages]. Now when you do the math that’s about 450 sites a day, every day for a year. Now either you are using a script or you are just thumbs upping every page that you come across. If you take that 450 sites and divide it by 24 that’s only about 19 sites an hour excluding sleep time. If you include working and sleeping combinded at 12 hours you would get a number at about 38 sites an hour at that point being about 1 site every 1.57 minutes, hardly enough time to actually take a look at a site. Now when you start getting into more calculations about time spent away from the computeryou will see that this can not be done at all in any way unless you automate the entire process. Also since the last time I looked at kancermans site he was sitting at about 157,000 and that was less than a week ago 11/25/2007.

So knowing that there is no way that anyone person could do anything of this sort alone I am on my journey to get into the top 100 of SU.

days I have been leaving my computer running with a script that automatically thumbs ups and keeps stumbling on an endless loop. Before this journey I had rated 3,600 sites and had 6 fans.

Well after this little expedition in Stumble I decided to close the account and have found that rather than getting to top stumbler, the ranking system and network would not allow me to rank any more websites at times. I do know that I did have a script running so it isn’t a problem. I did however find out that stumble has a lot of duplicate content that doesn’t need to be viewed more than once in a lifetime. Rather than getting new and interesting stumbles I was getting the same old shit over and over and over again.

So to anyone out there that thinks that stumble is so great, it is at first, but once you hit a certain spot all original content seems to disappear and all you are left with is what used to be fun and interesting.

All in all Stumble Upon is really a waste of time that will get you nowhere but is fun to do if you like spinning your wheels in the mud from time to time.

So this goes out to all you stumblers, please if you see something that is something that you have already seen go ahead and thumbs down it, or report it as duplicate content. SU is a community that needs it’s watch dogs just like anything else in the world, don’t feel bad. Remove the crap and get on with your day.

Thanks for your understanding and have a great SU day.