Comments on: Sexy Images used to Game StumbleUpon?

By: Chandler

Chandler — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:23:20 +0000

Me again, from two posts up. I ran my profile as a believably attractive woman for about two weeks - and there was no change in views or fans for that time. I wrote about 100 reviews in that period, so it’s not like I was invisible. My conclusion is that the reason these “women” receive so many fans is that they are also spamming people with requests - I’ve received a good few of these myself.

By: brian

brian — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:19:26 +0000

Poohbaby now returns “No Such Username” from Stumbleupon. :)

By: adluv

adluv — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:30:20 +0000

I have a pic of myself with a LITTLE bit of photoshop to make myself more alluring but I still only have 2 fans and 1 review and Im on all fxxkin day clicking away. Ive come to the conclusion that ALL stumblers are men and not gay either!!

By: Chandler

Chandler — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:15:04 +0000

I have noticed this as well - many profiles which feature pictures of attractive young women and almost no content - yet tons of fans. I wanted to test the hypothesis you mentioned, so I decided to switch my own Stumble Pic from me (a guy) to a reasonably attractive young woman. So far, my hits and fan levels are about the same - but I haven’t been messaging anyone, and my image is just regular-old-attractive, not half-naked-supermodel. Maybe the difference comes with the spam and overt sex images?

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:26:48 +0000

I’m a chick and my photo is a little…unusual. Me with a gun. I have close to 5,000 stumbles. But I don’t have that many fans. So sad. Yeah right!

By: MC

MC — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:40:33 +0000

I hate it when people like that write me a message asking me to add them as a friend because with no stumbled pages, well, I get nothing out of that.

By: kroq

kroq — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:50:26 +0000

Wow, that’s really unfortunate. You can set your profile so people can’t contact you, but that’s an unfortunate thing to have to do - to cut yourself off. That’s a really excellent counter-point though - this is certainly a double-edged sword. It would be nice if StumbleUpon added spam filters.

By: Noadi

Noadi — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:40:28 +0000

There’s a reverse to this that is just as irritating. I’m a girl and I have a photo of myself on my stumbleupon page and I am constantly getting irritating messages hitting on me. I actually get more messages of that sort here than on MySpace (even though I use the same photo for both). If it gets much worse I’m going to have to replace my profile photo with a picture of my cat or something which I don’t want to do because I like that photo.

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:35:53 +0000

I’ve seen the same too. Unless, all the good looking chicks have decided suddenly to stumble. MyBlogLog is full of these types of photos/avatars too. Guess what? It seems to be working.

By: AllSux.com » Why Go Out of Your Way to Trash a Fellow Stumbler?

AllSux.com » Why Go Out of Your Way to Trash a Fellow Stumbler? — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:53:54 +0000

[…] Negative reviews are a great feature on StumbleUpon - some people use them to criticize stuff think don’t think is up to snuff, while others (like me) try to reserve the ‘thumbs down’ for spam-filled sites or pages littered with lots of in-the-way ads. So OK, I wrote a post about how people using female avatars seem to get a lot of ‘friends,’ even if they aren’t Stumbling many pages: […]