StumbleUpon Tipping Point

[jeffc]

I have no idea why I am receiving an influx of people who are requesting to be my friend on StumbleUpon. I mean, it's as if I have gotten over a hump in terms of people recognizing me and wanting to be my friend.

However, when i have added these people as friends, they seem to go a little overboard with broadcasting messages letting people know of something to stumble. It's like the Social Buzz forum on Hive but at with a constant barrage of stumble this and stumble that through Stumbleupon. I've actually gone through and befriended most of those who have friended me and I am in the process of denying people who are requesting friendship.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?

[hart]

ugh ... tell me about it - Most have been good experiences, but one has been sending me stumbles starting back in January 2008 for about 5 sites .. so I get about 8 a day. It's annoying.

What's the irritating part - not the content or reciprocating - it's just the blank "send to" without even a message or .. "Hey? Can you stumble this?" or something like that.
I'm only stumbling current stuff .

[jnachtigal]

I don't send you THAT many hart.
Just kidding.

Yeah I got someone one that hits me up for like 8 a day now and I only stumble the one or two I find interesting.

[hart]

I don't send you THAT many hart.
Just kidding.

Yeah I got someone one that hits me up for like 8 a day now and I only stumble the one or two I find interesting.

Thats okay Jesse ... HIVE requests don't matter and if there were 50 a day I would still stumble them! (maybe not immediately, but I would get to them all).

As annoying as it is, I peek at this person's stumblers on these old posts and she's getting about 45-55 stumbles per post on these older articles. She's up to March now.

If I had any gumption, I should be doing the same with my own archives! lol

[deebarizo]

I used to get a bunch of stumble requests per day. I just "unfriended" the ones that were over the top - like 1-3 stumble requests a day including weekends lol. Now, I'm at 3-5 a week, which is much better

[christew]

I get a few a day but don't mind as long as its good stuff as I like voting for good stuff. Occasionally I get a 'friend' sending me crap regularly or sending too much so I get rid of them. I'd expect voting for stuff those pushy people send will likely get you in a bad neighborhood with the SU algorithm. So its not just annoying its potentially damaging being their friend.

[gerrybot]

I got friended by a fairly innocent account once that bombarded me with requests at one stage. Turned out they were running a fairly large network of different blogs and self promoting like crazy, so I cut them loose. I just felt like I was working to promote their stuff.

You tend to find that the more 'important' your StumbleUpon account, the more people tend to turn up and friend you.

[everythingeverywhere]

Twitter is awesome for traffic. Sadly I haven't been able to put much effort into it in the last few months.

I found it easiest to just requests stumbles via twitter whenever I have something worth stumbling. A few people will usually give it a stumble and that will get the ball rolling.