StumbleUpon Rampage
October 24, 2007 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev, gnash-teeth
As most of you know I’ve been a StumbleUpon user for awhile, normally I wouldn’t rate anything unless I really liked it or really hated it. (My own submissions are few and far between, but of quality I feel.) For the last few months I’ve simply had too much crap thrown my way, especially from the StumbleUpon/SEO/SERP/Social Media/Marketing/Web-2.0/Google-Juicing “Experts”. In fact there’s a lot out there thats just not fit to be viewed so I’ve changed my thumbing policy as follows:
These sites all automatically get a thumbs down and I won’t even check out the actual content no matter if it’s really “cool”.
- If your site is about any of those “Expert” items.
- Your website is hideous to look at.
- Contains pop ups of any kind (including dhtml)
- Takes too long to load.
- Is all flash.
- The start of the meaty content is not above the fold.
- Contains an abusive amount of ads (Including Google Ads).
Additionally I’m thumbing down all content that passes the above filter, but fails to tickle me. On some of the more lofty subjects, If I don’t feel like researching the topic further, I may simply wave a vote in either direction and continue Stumbling.
Likewise anything that delights me receives a thumbs up vote. I invite my fellow Stumblers to take similar action if you too are passive in the handing out of votes.
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I’m with ya baby!
