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 sexualizingsanta rated 11 months ago - From the page: "Mashable announces some unpleasant news. Unethical and unscrupulous website owners can pay to have their sites bookmarked on the popular StumbleUpon service. The controversial â€oeservice” behind this has already been paying Diggers to unnaturally promote links at Digg. Digg i...
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- ya rated 7 months ago
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everybody of you should know this > they wanna sellout SU
"Mashable announces some unpleasant news. Unethical and unscrupulous website owners can pay to have their sites bookmarked on the popular StumbleUpon service. The controversial "service" behind this has already been paying Diggers to unnaturally promote links at Digg. Digg is already gamed from the inside, and it's audience seems to be made up mostly of puerile adolescents, so I never cared much about it. But it would be very sad if you had to start wondering whether an article or site was stumbled because the user was paid. I have the feeling that it wouldn't be too hard to spot these StumbleUpon users and ban their IP addresses: their stumble lists would be full of crap, and their profile information would be minimal. They would never join any StumbleUpon communities. There would be no avatar.
I hope StumbleUpon plans to fight this. There's nothing wrong with doing it, legally, but because StumbleUpon is only worth the value of its links to its users, it would be in StumbleUpon's best interest (that being the best interests of its users) to fight any attempts to game their system with cash."
- AldousHuxleysCat rated 10 months ago
- This article- referencing this article
http://mashable.com/2007/07/13/now-get-paid-to-stumbleupon/
causer me to wonder why S/U has forced this Stumbler
to delete his account but allow this Stumbler
A Spammer to continue his. True NoSpam has more than one account but I know of over a dozen Stumblers with two or more accounts. Is it simply that our new corporate masters want us bombarded with Spam and other such forced media shills?
I have spent considerable time exploring other sites like S/U and may soon flee to one for the majority if my online social experience. Fight the good fight - demand that people who want to fight Spam be allowed to do so openly - Join this group
http://spm-free.group.stumbleupon.com/
- sexualizingsanta rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Mashable announces some unpleasant news. Unethical and unscrupulous website owners can pay to have their sites bookmarked on the popular StumbleUpon service. The controversial â€oeservice” behind this has already been paying Diggers to unnaturally promote links at Digg. Digg is already gamed from the inside, and itâ€s audience seems to be made up mostly of puerile adolescents, so I never cared much about it. But it would be very sad if you had to start wondering whether an article or site was stumbled because the user was paid. I have the feeling that it wouldnâ€t be too hard to spot these StumbleUpon users and ban their IP addresses: their stumble lists would be full of crap, and their profile information would be minimal. They would never join any StumbleUpon communities. There would be no avatar.
I hope StumbleUpon plans to fight this. Thereâ€s nothing wrong with doing it, legally, but because StumbleUpon is only worth the value of its links to its users, it would be in StumbleUponâ€s best interest (that being the best interests of its users) to fight any attempts to game their system with cash.
If you want to get increased stumbles, hereâ€s the right way to do it: Please Stumble this Post! Click the â€oeBookmark or Email this Post” link below. Stumblers need to know about this! Thank you!"
- brmwk rated 11 months ago
- It was only a matter of time before someone noticed that there was money available in this form. I wonder if there's going to be something like an ignore list perhaps, so you can personally ignore stumblers whom you either completely disagree with, or in this case are stumbling content you don't want to see.
 dmelin78 rated 11 months ago- From the page: "Please Stumble this Post! " Screw you. People can make their own choices.
- zspada15 rated 11 months ago
- i hope stumbleupon doesnt start charging...
- Durden rated 11 months ago
- Read!
- laughingheart rated 11 months ago
- Now you know this isn't right... Looks like someone is trying to make extra money. This guy thinks you were born yesterday.
- Jannell rated 11 months ago
- Glad that THIS made it on stumble.
- arleas rated 11 months ago
- This guy is stating the obvious. There's one thing though... Stumbleupon isn't like Digg where you can make it to the "Front page" that easily. And I can usually smell the stench of "self-promotion" a mile away. Plus if a site stinks, it doesn't matter who thumbs it up... it stinks... I'm not seeing much of anything but random crap anyway.
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