"All I did to get there is submit newly popular stories from Digg and Reddit as well every great post I find during casual feed reading."
Well I don't do anything like that. I simply thumb up sites that I find interesting, and my interests are generally not in populist stuff.
However I do find that my blogs get lots of traffic from stumbleupon also. So the guys conclusions are somewhat faulty. If you use SU a lot the you get a lot back. As you give, so shall you receive.
I would like to think, and hope I am right, that SU is neither a popularity contest or a numbers game. The words "power stumbler" simply grate on my senses. grr!
Well I'm no longer a Power Stumbler :(. Maybe they considered my techniques abuse of the system and removed me? Oh well, I was just trying to share the love and help others get a bit of traffic. I don't see how submitting articles found through social media could be in any way against the TOS.
Although it may go against some people's Stumbler ideals, the name of the game is traffic for anyone with a website or blog. Is this abuse of the system and community? Well anything automated would be, what I've been doing, I don't think so. Is it any worse than messaging a bunch of people and asking for thumbs?
14-sorry, didn't mean to offend you..I know your intentions were well meant, and you certainly did not break any rules. :)
btw..I never message anyone to ask for thumbs, and only give thumbs if I like someone's site, not because they ask for it
Asking people for thumbs, automating stumbles and what have you and using all kinds of tricks to generate traffic....this is not MySpace....I'm seeing more and more people on SU 'obsessed' with quantity instead of quality. And even if the rules weren't broken, there's a difference between the letter of the law (TOS) and the spirit of the law.
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