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Wraywolf discovered this in StumbleUpon
•10 reviews since Apr 22, 2007
stumbleupon, su-drama
•help.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/67648/
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Wraywolf discovered 13 months ago- Apparently, you now have to SIGN IN to SU to see R and X rated pages. That means that anyone who wants to link to their own blog or their friends blogs can't if these blogs are "offensive" as deamed by the SU staff and the morality patrol.
I won't lie and say I'm not pissed off mainly because it hurts my ego that I can't link to things I've said on SU or reviews I've done that I'm particuarly proud of. But this is bad for another reason. It makes anyone with any "offensive" content a shut-in in the SU network. And for what reason, you ask?
Advertising.
When people are looking through SU, they only get to see the happy glitter blogs, or the blogs that are nice and polite and welcoming. This is a move to reap more SU sign ups, and it's executed by sweeping any offensive content there might be under the rug.
As flatterd as I am to be the unsightly, underground sleaze of the SU universe, if people can only see the glitter orgies or the unoffensive blogs that have 500 reviews that basically amount to "lol hay guyz check this out this funnie picture/gender humor/email forward from 1999" then it will be that THESE ARE THE ONLY KIND OF PEOPLE THAT WILL SIGN UP.
Web 2.0 communities are made by their user base. The admins are trying to be sneaky and get more people to sign up by lying to them as to what SU is. This is an underhanded advertising method, and the worst part is that we, the SU misfits, don't get to be part of the sales pitch.
BIG EDIT: This decision has been reversed for R-rated blogs. Now, if only the rating system wasn't a mob-ruled clusterfuck.- Apparently, you now have to SIGN IN to SU to see R and X rated pages. That means that anyone who wants to link to their own blog or their friends blogs can't if these blogs are "offensive" as deamed by the SU staff and the morality patrol.
- zeynelo rated 13 months ago
- I disagree with audience here and I think the idea is good when you have to sign in to see X and R rated pages. X rated pages was available to public after one confirmation, now at least you should sign up, and become "X-Rated". The point is X-Rated person can't come back to "for everbody" state as far as I know. So this hardens to get to these X-Rated pages. Again, as far as I know this is same for R-Rated stumblers, when you select/become R-Rated, you can't return quickly. Of course, anybody who -really- wants to see X/R rated pages may sign up, change their rating. I haven't so much knowledge about this matter I'll say now but I find it similar what Google did some while ago: Adult sites doesn't come up in the first results (or maybe they don't come up at all). But if a person really wants, they can still reach such content. I'm sure both Google (and now SU will) avoid many children from adult content, which is good.
- DrCyclops rated 13 months ago
- Looks like this has been taken care of, but I'm thumbing it up for posterity. So that it may not be too quickly forgotten.
- VaVaVoommm rated 13 months ago
- The most thoughtless thing the SU Devs have done to date ...
- niewo50 rated 13 months ago
- To ALL stumblers - Read this discussion, post your opinion ! and give it your 'thumbs up' http://help.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/67648/ It's stupid to force people to sign in SU just to look at stumbles !
- Mari-Lou rated 13 months ago
You have to sign in to prove you're 18?
"R" and "X" rated blogs can no longer be seen on the outside, unless the viewer signs up or logs in. This would appear to be an effective manoeuvre to encourage new members. But I for one whenever I have encountered a website which orders I HAVE TO subscribe, register or set up an account to see its contents, I always make a special little mental note never to return there. I want to look first. Then, if I am impressed I will register in a second time.
There are many fantastic "G" rated blogs here on SU, and deservedly they are Top stumblers; but the majority are BORING PUERILE POETRY AND PICS PRETTY and/or CUTE KITTY GIFS blogs :P What type of new members do Stumbleupon want to attract?
- UPDATE 24/04/07 (time: very late)
- rumisong rated 13 months ago
The Dumbest thing the SU Devs have done to date ... money - money - money ... and the whole world goes about this sort of thing unapologetically ... *sigh*
