The Third Reich of Social Bookmarking – Stumbleupon.com

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I’ve just had my Stumbleupon.com account frozen and accused of spam, I was informed I shouldn’t stumble my own blog’s stories a while back, and so I didn’t, although I would still proceed to stumble t-shirt blogs, t-shirt designers, and other sites both artistic and otherwise and yet what the hell happened today?

Here’s the standard bumpf email I received:-

Your StumbleUpon account privileges have been restricted and the account is under review.

Accounts are placed under review for breaching our Terms of Service, which may be found here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html

The most common cause for account suspension is a contravention of the clauses which forbid the use of personal accounts for the promotion of a business, product or service, and also with regard to the sending of ’spam’ messages to other members.

If you wish to appeal this suspension, having first reviewed the TOS, then you may contact us here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/feedback.php but be aware that we will only have imposed the suspension if we believe it to be warranted.

This is nonsense – god knows what Stumble think they’re doing, ah well I’m sure it never brought me very much traffic anyway, I rely more on word of mouth and recommendation from t-shirt fans and designers, but still, who the hell do Stumbleupon think they are? The Third Reich of Social Social Bookmarking?

At least they didn’t sent around the SU’s with jackboots and Luger’s to take me away for interrogation. All hail the new oligarchy, the self-appointed emperors of taste and fashion. It makes me sick when massive corporations feel they can play judge and jury on one blog to the next. I’ts not as if I’m trying to sell you penis enlargement pills, or money making chainletter programs, deary me, what has the world come to when some spotty trumped up jerk from a backwater town can slam anyone they wish, no matter how worthy the cause or creative the output. IF they want to know who’s spamming Stumbleupon should take a closer look at their whole organisation – these guys have pages upon pages of useless empty accounts with nothing but money making blogs and dumb ass business drivel that swears on the next link you’ll make a million bucks.

I don’t know if Stumbleupon.com have heard of freedom of expression, or the US constitution, or the European Court of Human Rights, but if I gave a flying toss I’d be teaching them a lesson or two right now. Instead I’ll be British about it and surreptitiously stick two fingers up to yet another faceless bland corporation and get on with life. It’s sunny outside, yes it’s blowing a force 8 gale, but it’s sunny and I really should connect a little more with what really matters, a beer on the beach and throwing pebbles on te shore.

Conclusion, if you want to promote your t-shirts never ever ever bother with Stumbleupon.com, tell your friends and even your enemies, Stumbleupon is a massive waste of time, a pointless exercise in futility run by a bunch of jumped up idiots who cover their ears whenever a sensible argument passes them by.

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