Comments on: More questions then answers

By: K Owusu

K Owusu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:43:47 +0000

P.S. Yea I know I’m like 4 months late for the above comment, but thought I would add my 2pence anyway.

By: K Owusu

K Owusu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:43:06 +0000

I found both your breakdown of the algorithm, and your answers to be interesting. I am also a bit of a geek (self confessed and proud) and always like to find out how things work. Not simply in order to abuse it, but just for a level of understanding. Lots of people use computers without knowing how they work. That is totally fine, but I like to know how they work, so I can use it better. I think your breakdown just proves that in order to use stumbleupon to the greatest effect, you need to be a good honest stumbler, so hats off to the stumbleupon engineers for creating it. eg. thumbing up sites you like; looking around and discovering sites you like and you think others will like; being part of the stumble upon community and making friends. All these are not only positive in the way of building stumble cred, but also part of being a good honest, nice stumbler. If you go around discovering crap for the sake of it, and thumbing up any old tripe, it won’t work. It’s about finding quality among the already filthy sea of the internet, and the stumbleupon people reward you for that, and rightly so. So in the end, someones method of trying to cheat stumble by figuring out their code, and working towards it is in a sense making themselves into a good web surfer and stumbler. A bit like trying to cheat in a test by hiding the answers in your head. I enjoyed this

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:24:08 +0000

@Nate I think this may have been answered on the previous post but from all the bits we did it had no impact at all the “is this review helpful” seems to be part of Stumbleupon customer services tool for tracking spam and or malicious comments.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:59:30 +0000

Very interesting piece. What are the effects of the ‘Useful Yes/No?’ option next to reviews? I’ve always wondered about that.

By: Puthzel

Puthzel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:12:21 +0000

Hard…. to test stumbleupon algorithm

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By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:33:40 +0000

Thanks Engtech Its interesting that stumbleupon introduced lots of features that make its toolbar very easy to use, but also leave the system open to abuse. I suspect even as late as June the send to acted organically and would have as much stumble juice as a random visitor from the toolbar. But spammers quickly worked out how to abuse it so the engineers had no real choice devalue the click or remove the feature.

By: engtech

engtech — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:20:55 +0000

I want to let you know how much I appreciate your research. It does explain what I saw when I stopped submitting my own domain with any regularity, and instead focused on submitting lots of other sites (thanks to my Delicious Stumbles). When I do submit my own site now (very infrequently) it typically does well — unless I use the “send to” feature that just kills it.

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