# Stumbleupon users - are you seeing the same as me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603 "2013-11-10T22:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/1 "2013-11-10T22:00:20Z")
I’ve been a user of StumbleUpon for a long time. Just recently, I’ve been noticing that a significantly increased proportion of my stumbles have taken me to sites that are defunct - i.e. domain holding pages, ‘domain for sale’ or ‘account suspended’. Anyone else seeing this? Is it just a symptom of the economic climate (i.e. abandoned sites that have expired), or are these sites that only ever existed briefly for the purpose of SEO or something like that? (and maybe StumbleUpon was part of the plan). ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/2 "2013-11-10T22:35:56Z")
If you PM me some specific examples I may have some answers. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/3 "2013-11-11T02:24:58Z")
I’ve not noticed that, but I have noticed an increase in “You cannot dislike this page” results. I used to really love it, but it seems that there are fewer users, so the stumbles kind of suck most of the time now, and/or are ancient (in web years, not astronomical years). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/4 "2013-11-11T07:10:12Z")
I have noticed a rise in loops - where you end up going to the same 4 or 5 pages repeatedly. It seems that I have to go somewhere else for about half an hour or so [shorpy is a favorite] to get unstuck. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/5 "2013-11-11T08:44:03Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I have noticed a rise in loops - where you end up going to the same 4 or 5 pages repeatedly. It seems that I have to go somewhere else for about half an hour or so [shorpy is a favorite] to get unstuck. I think that just means you’ve exhausted the list of candidate stumbles in your categories. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/6 "2013-11-11T08:45:19Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > If you PM me some specific examples I may have some answers. Will do - thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/7 "2013-11-11T08:48:05Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I’ve not noticed that, but I have noticed an increase in “You cannot dislike this page” results. I think those are caused by some sort of redirect - the Stumble takes you to a page that instantly whisks you off to the actual content somewhere else - at a different URL to the one in StumbleUpon’s DB (there are both good and evil reasons why webmasters might set up their sites in this way) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/8 "2013-11-11T10:14:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I think that just means you’ve exhausted the list of candidate stumbles in your categories. I tend to leave it on all, I probably have selected 30 or 40 sub categories, but I am stumbling for the hell of it and don’t feel like restricting it. Though I do wish there was a way to eliminate all vegan, low fat, gluten free cooking blogs… ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/9 "2013-11-11T12:05:38Z")
I stopped using SU a long time ago in part because I was getting a lot of pages that triggered virus/malware warnings. This didn’t necessarily mean they were trying to communicate malware, but it was annoying enough that it took away some of the fun of stumbling. A much more significant reason I stopped using it, though, was because so much of the content on the internet is becoming bland and predictable. It was impossible to customize the settings enough to avoid the mediocre. I discovered more interesting ways to waste time. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/10 "2013-11-11T16:38:54Z")
I have found the same things as many of you. Loops, pages that are defunct, and pages that won’t open. It also seems I’m getting more pages that have nothing to do with the topic I’m stumbling. For example, I was looking at genealogy pages when a page about cars came up. Then it went right back to genealogy. I used to love the site, but lately it’s not worth it. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/11 "2013-11-11T23:05:00Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > I have found the same things as many of you. Loops, pages that are defunct, and pages that won’t open. It also seems I’m getting more pages that have nothing to do with the topic I’m stumbling. For example, I was looking at genealogy pages when a page about cars came up. Then it went right back to genealogy. > > I used to love the site, but lately it’s not worth it. I seem to remember they had a pulldown category for wrong topic - now it is not for me, spam, duplicate content and block. Maybe I’ll wander over to their homesite and see if they have a complaint/suggestion contact. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/12 "2013-11-11T23:33:20Z")
I use the toolbar - this has an option ‘report this stumble as’ with options such as ‘broken or 404’, ‘unsafe’, ‘not about [category]’ etc. No idea how effective reporting it actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/13 "2013-11-12T02:22:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I use the toolbar - this has an option ‘report this stumble as’ with options such as ‘broken or 404’, ‘unsafe’, ‘not about [category]’ etc. No idea how effective reporting it actually is. I used to “Report this page as not in English” all the time and it forced you to choose which language it was. It was highly inconvenient. It’s changed now, I think, so at least there is an “I don’t know” option. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/14 "2013-11-12T02:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > I stopped using SU a long time ago in part because I was getting a lot of pages that triggered virus/malware warnings. This didn’t necessarily mean they were trying to communicate malware, but it was annoying enough that it took away some of the fun of stumbling. yes, this ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/15 "2013-11-12T03:04:42Z")
I found that, whatever my interests were, I ended up on countless “Ten Things You Didn’t Know About…” type pages. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-are-you-seeing-the-same-as-me/673603/16 "2013-11-12T08:56:52Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > I found that, whatever my interests were, I ended up on countless “Ten Things You Didn’t Know About…” type pages. I think that’s just because a lot of blogs have adopted that style - instead of writing their own, interesting content, they just reblog someone else’s, breaking it into multiple pieces that force you to reload the page (and the ads) multiple times.