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Confessions of A Twentysomething (want to be) Stumble Queen
By dana | October 9, 2007
In honor of passing my 4,000th thumb this week (and Lindsay Lohan graduating from rehab), I thought it the perfect time to come clean with my fellow stumblers. These are my StumbleUpon confessions.
- If I’m a little tired and questioning giving a thumbs up, I put great weight in who’s already stumbled it instead of taking a huge amount of time to really analyze the site, author and even the post. If I’m leaning towards a thumbs up and notice that Lyndoman or Muhammad have been there, done that…you’re probably getting a thumb.
- When in a blogging/stumbling frenzy if your site looks like something that could have been on a monitor in the movie War Games or resembles something I designed on my Commodore 64, I will not read it…no matter the content’s actual quality or value…when I’m on a roll, I’m a modern, pretty site snob.
- As much as I talk a good game about wanting quality, value-packed content while stumbling, every once in awhile I fall prey to an adorable kitten, random flash game or random hysterical street sign and throw a thumb up their way
- Though most of the time if I don’t answer while my “online” button is lit, it just means I’m working or stumbling and not paying attention to my inbox, sometimes I just don’t want to talk to you.
- Even though I know it probably means very little, I would still do just about anything to be called a “Top Stumbler.”
- Although I know it does not help my stumbling experience or that of others, I very rarely thumbs down a site. As much as I’d like to hide it, I am a bit too nice with an overactive conscience and belief in karma, and I just can’t bring myself to do it most of the time
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October 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I’ll email ya my StumbleUpon research results, Dana. They’re just too juicy to put here.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
thumbs’d up, if that’s even a word
October 9th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I really need to do some more stumbling myself, you’ll end up passing me up quite quickly in number of thumbs up you have given. Plus I’d like to raise my position on the Top Stumblers page, I don’t know why but I just don’t like being on the very bottom right.
Is it bad when I consider school, php, and sleep to have been getting in the way of my stumbling?
October 9th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
You’re well on your way to being a Stumble Queen. I rarely give a thumbs down either.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I’ll stay a SU soldier - because soldiers are the foundation of any community.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:42 am
Wow Dang - I think you are addicted Dana, I can’t imagine me doing that much
How long did it take to do that?
October 10th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
You passed 4,000 already? Haha that’s amazing. You’ll be up there soon enough.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:54 am
I SO want to call you a stumble whore. Ok, I just did
It’s meant with love Dana. I very rarely give a site thumbs down as well. Just because I don’t like it or find it useful, doesn’t mean that it sucks.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I’d like to know what it takes to be a top stumbler. I’ve stumbled through around 60,000 items, giving the thumbs up to 30,778 pages, 289 videos, 1,400 photo, and I have 270 fans and have received 65 reviews. I don’t think I’ve once found myself on the top stumblers page, even though people with only 1/10th of what I have stumbled, show up there daily, and I have used Stumbleupon on a daily basis now for just shy of 3 years.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Wow, a top stumbler. I’ve wondered what it took to get there
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October 13th, 2007 at 12:02 am
4,000, that’s awesome! I don’t usually thumbs down a site either. I only do so when I come across one that is extremely obnoxious, spammy, etc. Otherwise, I thumbs up or leave it alone.
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October 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Somebody tell me: Does it affect a website’s ‘reputation’ if one gives them a thumbs down? I am too nice to do that (just like most of you) even when the website sucks big time.
I joined SU only yesterday. ^^
October 17th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I just go thru the toolbar and either thumbs up stuff or skip over it if I don’t like it.
January 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Congrats on reaching the 4,000 stumbles milestone and overcoming it Dana !
Cheers !
February 7th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Dana,
Thinking of you…wishing you the best in the upcoming year!
~Maura
February 16th, 2008 at 4:53 am
WOW.how could someone say thumbs up to this.its rather thumbs down please
February 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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March 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am
What has happened to this blogging site. its been months without a new post.
March 19th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I asked a question yesteday though i dint expect to get an anser by today but will like to get one though.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Quite an amusing list really - I love SU as well and sometimes the addiction can really take over you
April 4th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Wow I wonder how many stumbles you have amassed now after all this time!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I’ll really like to know whats happening on this site.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:20 am
whats actually hapeening here i ask again?
April 14th, 2008 at 5:24 am
:n
eutral:
What else would i say but that its like you have finaly abandoned this blog site.
You can prove me wrong though
May 6th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Not many new posts here it seems, but still a lot of good reading material. Hope to see more in the future.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Not many new posts