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So now the I have sidekick I am better able to verify a few things. I have been giving "thumbs up" via StumbleUpon pretty much for every article I publish. In fact, I added a SU feedflare that makes it easier to stumble without the toolbar.
I asked Tamar where these stumbles show up, because I keep submitting and they don't show up in my profile. Yes, I am logged in. Yes, I tried both the link method (FeedFlare) and using the Firefox toolbar and neither work.
I asked Tamar to use both methods and the submissions show up in her profile right away.
So I am thinking, that maybe I am banned from StumbleUpon for submitting too often?
I never heard of a StumbleUpon ban, have you?
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Maybe you should stop spamming them, Barry. ;) (j/k)
Posted by: DazzlinDonna | March 20, 2007 2:44 PM
LOL -- Maybe, but is it spam? Like Twitter or Delicious, they want it.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | March 20, 2007 2:50 PM
I can no longer log in to my account at all. I need to start a profile but I've been procrastinating.
Posted by: Hawaii SEO | March 20, 2007 3:11 PM
Very interesting Barry- who'd a thought they ban people for actually using the system as it is designed to be used.
Hope you post an update on your findings team!
;-)
Posted by: Erika | March 20, 2007 4:27 PM
I've had the same thing as you... eventually it work again. I think it's an algorthm thing, submit to often from the same site.
Posted by: Caydel | March 20, 2007 11:57 PM
Feel free to test it on my site ;)
Maybe you have discovered the secret to SU's success
Stumbles per site = 5+(Total Stumbles/50)+(reviews/5)+bonus
Or something similar
Posted by: Andy Beard | March 24, 2007 4:06 AM
same thing happened to me! I submitted 3 of my posts in a row. :/ it's been a day & still wont work.
i've never seen your site on my stumbles. I'll thumbs up it right now though!
Posted by: disaster | March 29, 2007 3:42 PM
I think I've been banned, but I don't spam the site, and haven't stumbled my site in a while... anyone know how to get removed from the banlist?
Posted by: Joshua Dorkin | April 16, 2007 4:57 PM
Same thing happened to me. I can no longer StumbleUpon my posts. No problem doing other web sites. I sure hope Caydel is right and that it will work again.
Posted by: Kayla | April 19, 2007 9:59 PM
Any word on what happened? It seems the same thing happened to me.
Posted by: George Gumpert | May 7, 2007 11:28 AM
I just gave you a thumbs up because you deserve it. There's hardly any info out there on this subject. Nice post.
Your not showing up in my list though.
Posted by: Austin Luna | May 17, 2007 9:51 AM
Iv'e just been banned too Barry, gutted, Iv'e been loving the traffic for quite a long time now. Just found this post whilst looking for an answer, thanks for the info. I hope Caydel is right too.
Posted by: David Eaves | July 15, 2007 9:59 PM
So is true they are banning, the same thing have happened to me. snifff but a question is, Are we banned of submit our own content? or is our url banned from the system?
Posted by: mao | August 5, 2007 3:51 PM
Hi,
I gave you a thumb up and you were added to my StumbleUpon list without any problem whereas I can not add my own posts any more.
Could you please try to add one of my posts and see if it is possible or not? Then please let me know about the result. Thanks! Here is the post:
http://www.weboma.com/21-ways-to-drive-free-traffic-to-your-sites/
Posted by: Vahid Chaychi | August 15, 2007 10:18 PM
Happened to me too. Day 2 and I can't stumble from one domain. Hoping it goes away soon.
See you at Ad:Tech (yep, flying in)
-Eli
Posted by: Eli | October 14, 2007 2:36 PM
you just have to stumble or rate (thumbs up / thumbs down) other pages to get it up and running perfectly again :)
you can start by rating the sites of people who commented on this page ;p
Posted by: keikun | October 18, 2007 12:24 AM