“Stumble Upon” Explained

Today I noticed something strange about Stumble today, to put it bluntly “IT SUCKS”. I have come to apparently the end of SU at this time, I finally ranked something close to almost 12,000 sites. To be honest I didn’t even look at most of those pages since I had a script running just to prove a point.

So you would figure that I ranked 12,000 sites and didn’t look at nearly any of them so if I came across them again it would be all new to me. That assumption is wrong to the most degree.

I have found that dependant on your topics there is really nothing new added to SU, what happens is that lots of people think that they find something new but it has already been found once before. So what I am saying is that there is not really all that much content available on Stumble that you haven’t already seen once before someplace else on the net. It’s like a giant cluster fuck of the same ideas with different CSS Style Sheets behind them.

****Most Stumblers By Lost Here**** See why below

I swear that not one single person has an original thought in their heads at this point. You take something from here, you put it there, then you “thumbs up it”. Well that really only works for people that are trying like hell to drive traffic to their site. Hey it might work in the short run but there really isn’t a returning fan base that will be coming back to your site to see anything else that you have stolen from some other part of the web.

From a little trial and error I have found, that Stumblers such as myself don’t have patience to read an entire post.Typically reading about 2 paragraphs before moving on to the next site. It’s like we have all gotten to this point where we all have a very bad case of A.D.D.

Well it isn’t our faults I suppose…. yeah, it really is…. there are some options that people might not have found yet, such as

Report Last Stumble found under the Tools Menu with this ingenios peice of code you can do something that might actually help the entire community.

Such as….

• Adult (for porno and other offensive things)
• Wrong Topic (for when something is where it shouldn’t be)
• Duplicate (for those moments when you know you have seen it before)
• Inaccurate (when it just isn’t right at all)
• Spam (when it isn’t SU sending you to a spam page)
• 404 or Broken (when a site is down or is not working)
• Wrong Language (when it isn’t the language you selected)

Lastly there is also a thumbs down button for a reason. Use it for good and keep people from Stumbling across garbage.

Currently I have closed my SU account and will be starting another in hopes that I can find something that I haven’t seen already in 300 places. I will confess that my hopes on that last one are pretty low, only time will tell.