Stumble upon is awesome, but has the worst comments
Posted by: Adrian Corscadden in Internet, TechnologyStumble upon is the social bookmarking tool that I use the most. This title used to be held by digg and reddit, but I only visit those sites on occasion now. I find that stumble upon delivers higher quality pages, and the content is better targeted to whatever category I am stumbling in.
The one gripe I have with stumble upon is the quality of its comments. They are always pretty useless, and never offer much insight. A comment is rarely longer than one line. Stumble upon comments are not just bad; they are the worst on the web. I think that it is a community that hasn’t yet learned the etiquette of commenting.
The comment page’s location isn’t immediately evident, and I suspect that a lot of stumble upon users don’t even view the comments page.
I have had a few of my posts ’stumbled’. Here are some highlights from the worst of the comments that I received.
Santa vs. God AND Atheists vs. Monotheists
Observations of a guy who makes up statistics and implies a relationship in an attempt to be funny: Adrian Corscadden – RRamsey118
The first one is another rip-off of Stephen Roberts, and the second is just untrue. Not everyone believes in God until they are 7. What kind of crap is that? – Viperine
When I stumble humor section, I expect to laugh… Now you show me the humor in this… – Stariuss
Egg Peeling Gadget
All I want to know is, if Jesus was a carpenter how come he never build a damn thing in the bible? Hell, he didn’t even complain about that half-assed cross. – Riff-Randell
Riff-Randell doesn’t even make any sense. How does this have anything to do with the post?
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Agreed! I think some people’s comments are intended to fit into their stumble-blog-favorite-page thing or to catch the eyes of their followers. I hate the people who leave cryptic personal notes to themselves. Perhaps “hate” is too strong…
I’ve actually enjoyed Entrecard more than SU, and gotten more out of it. SU is great, though, if I’m too tired to concentrate and I just want to see what the Internet will throw at me next.
I’ve been wondering about stumble upon. I’ve seen a lot of different people talking about it on their blogs. I will have to look into it. Thanks for sharing.
Hrm, interesting post, I have yet to use Stumble, but after seeing so many articles on it, like this one, I’m tempted to try it for myself.
Best of luck to you and your website,
Richard from http://www.hedgeagainstspeculation.com
I think it might have to do with how the service works. Stumblers come upon a site, and they’re raring to stumble to the next site. Any comments will be of the “first thing that comes to mind” type, and as you said, usually a one-liner. They might not even read the whole post.
It also may have something to do with the category your post was submitted. Some people just don’t find science funny?
I am sorry I disagree, Check the Page …Why should I waste my precious time to save you time if I think it is interesting I give a cryptic message GO CHECK IT OUT sorry…
Inane and brainless comments are very much part of any user community though. You only need to look at comments on Youtube and some digg ones to remind yourself that a lot of people seem to stop thinking when they start typing.
Ha! Stariuss makes terrible comments all the time! I’m constantly annoyed by his Stumble comments.
Your post made me laugh. I had a similar experience with SU, only that the commentators are ultra -concise, they leave a very short comments in my case, or they are describing my blogs with my own words.
Click here to see the Stumbleupon comments page.
Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before! Everyone should participate. I am incorporating what your wrote to our project!