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Quest for Top Stumbler

Published on January 9, 2008 in Personal. 0 Comments Tags: .

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.

“Stumble Upon” Explained

Published on January 3, 2008 in Personal. 1 Comment Tags: .

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.