StumbleUpon Sucks!!! Big Time!!!
Posted by Karen in Internet, blogging, tags: banned, BlogEngage, firefox, StumbleUponNow recently on the advice from ExtremeJohn on his post about StumbleUpon I decided to join, downloaded the handy FireFox plugin and set on my merry way of Stumbling on sites, blogs etc that I was visiting and enjoying!
Then lo and behold the other day I had an email informing me that my account had been suspended, banned from Stumbleupon, don’t ask me why, I’ve no idea, I was clicking the “Thumbs Up” in the Toolbar of sites I like, not doing anything wrong there surely!
I even sent StumbleUpon a message via their feedback option, as mentioned in their email, but nothing, no response at all! So if this is the way that they treat users, then as far as I’m concerned then they do indeed suck big time, I have surfed today and found several bloggers that have had similar problems, my advice to anyone wanting to use StumbleUpon is DON’T, use BlogEngage instead, where you get a response when needed, not just ignored 
There you go, rant over!
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StumbleUpon Sucks! Big Time!…
Now recently on the advice from ExtremeJohn on his post about StumbleUpon I decided to join, downloaded the handy FireFox plugin and set on my merry way of Stumbling on sites, blogs etc that I was visiting and enjoying!…
Twitter: ladybanana
(23 comments) says:
How odd, I’ve been using SU for years and never had trouble apart from when the SU bar stopped working.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
(1093 comments) Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
You must be visiting the sites that SU approves of
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Oh man, that sucks. What is it with customer service and online accounts? You would think it would be easier to get a response. So sorry to hear your issues, I’ve had SU for awhile now and not run into anything yet..fingers crossed.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
(1093 comments) Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I think some companies just don’t care, they get on with things and ignore people with their customer not-care service!
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Twitter: extremejohn
(165 comments) says:
Yup I had great pleasure in removing my handy dandy Stumble Upon Toolbar, screw them. No reason as to why and of course the dirt bags don’t respond. I have a rant on the way as well.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
(1093 comments) Reply:
August 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Can’t wait to read your rant
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Twitter: ShotOfCoffee
(4 comments) says:
Very interesting. I just started using the Stumble Upon toolbar, it was my second time trying it out. The results weren’t that great, I don’t think I’ll have any problem with no longer using the service.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I certainly think that it is a service I can do without, there was a mass of traffic for a brief moment, but then nothing ….
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Some services are not meant to stay, especially those who do not understand customer service. I myself have tried a few sites that I found to be pretty good, but the ignorance of the people running the sites put me off so I stopped using them.
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I know exactly how you’re feeling, i have to say i never had a problem with su but i did have exactly the same problem with adsense and my account was in the initial stage-it had only just been started and was waiting for approval-i appealed twice with an online set form and never even received an acknowledgment, and there is no other way to contact them, you are told you can only fill out the form!! so my sympathies. su is google right? so is adsense. we are just small fish in a big sea
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I’m going to also remove the plugin Karen. I haven’t seen any traffic yet.
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Twitter: HichamMG
(32 comments) says:
I am not into toolbars of any service even Google’s since I prefer the clean browser. However I wonder why did they suspend the account?
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Twitter: virtuosoblogger
(19 comments) says:
What i think has happened that you might stumbled a lot of pages from a particular site and that might have got u banned. I am not banned touch wood. But what i saw that stumbleupon can be a good traffic source.
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I really need to read up more on all these sites like SU digg etc…I feel clueless-stopping by from blog engage
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Twitter: DiTesco
(11 comments) says:
That’s curious to know. I have been using both the toolbar (thumbs up) and su.pr and I have had no problems yet up to now. If this happens though and they do not give any response, than that definitely sucks. Nothing worst than having an answer and stay blind. I use BE too and I’m happy with it. Brian is doing a great job there to the extent that his site has already been cloned.
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