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Stumble backlash
Gah! I’m so annoyed right now. So, I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon, which I’ve been a member of (and enjoyed) for years. Surprised, I checked the referrer and saw that it was coming from my post Console Rundown. Now, like many bloggers, I often see something I like and BLOG ABOUT IT. I show the thing, add in all the appropriate links that I’m aware of, and so it goes. As far as I’m aware, this is the proper etiquette.
However, since someone submitted MY page instead of the actual Escapist page that the original video lives on, suddenly I’m ripping them off and using StumbleUpon to get “hits to her site.” What? Seriously? Clearly, it’s my fault for blogging about something I found amusing.
It’s one thing to say “Hey, duplicate submission!” It’s another thing to accuse someone of ripping off a magazine that they totally respect and enjoy. Hell, if anything, I wanted to send whatever little traffic I could so more people could enjoy the videos! It’s crap like this that makes working online a frustrating experience sometimes.
Sorry, /vent
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Ouch… don’t worry about it…
when i saw the video post, i actually went to the website to watch it… (website that now i love)…
and, why in the world would YOU, especially, like to have A LOT of trafic? the one who accused you is not really… let’s say… inteligent…
BTW, great about the reading club (just a sugestion, trey to choose books that can be baugth easily on-lines… so people from other countrys like me (brasil) can participate…
Thanks…
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#5 written by WolvenSpectre 4 years ago
I feel your pain Lady V.
When my News and Culture/Entertainment Blog (in a stasis field for now) was still going I had linked to a story on an news site forgetting my usual policy of linking to the original home page or subsection the story appeared in.
Unfortunately I had accidentally linked to a story prerelease when it was indexed by both google and the originating sites search engine. When I put it on the web 12 hours earlier and before they had recieved their final confirmations, their exclusive story had gotten almost 5000 click throughs on my site and since other bloggers could’t find it on the original site they all linked to me the next day.
I recieved a friendly letter from their legal department and a not so friendly letter from the authour and one of the subjects of the article.
luckily all were appeased after speaking with me after I commited to correcting my mistake, but other bloggers didn’t follow suit so I had to drop the story as accusations of intellectual property theft were piled on me by uninvolved 3rd parties. Days afterward cryies of csnsorship and even payoffs were leveled after I removed the story.
My blog was a personal endevor that only had adds from the blogging service. The types of adds the service carried and this eventually drove me from blogging until I could take control of my blog both in content and technically.
Its been almost a year since I posted anything in my old blog, but if you search for it I am still the first result in Google, so it couldn’t have been that bad.
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#8 written by Vance 4 years ago
We are all still working out the details of these complex interactions. When thousands of folks are communicating one step removed, by post, link, comment, etc, then the flow of information can get messy. Unless someone is intentionally trying to game things for their benefit at the expense of others, no one should get upset.
This reminds me of the whole photo attribution fiasco Ryan had to go through a while back. Once it was determined that Ryan had not actually been attempting to play a petty game, everyone should have backed off.
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Eh, just water off of your back.
From a technical viewpoint, this is one of the many reasons I tend to avoid using embeds on blogs.
You have enough of a ‘back catalog’ of content to establish a solid reputation. Anyone of reasonable faculty would understand your intentions were above board.
Chalk it up to one of the minor annoyances that comes with the “package deal” of Web-celeb-hood.
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Meh, don’t sweat it. People are idiots. Someone submitted my blog to Stumbleupon (probably a very nice reader) and then another user gave it thumbs down with the comment: “Promoting your own blog is frowned upon”.
I sent a message to the guy saying “You are entitled to your opinion and if you think my blog sucks then that’s fine, because it probably does, but at least get your facts straight: someone else submitted this, not me. And besides, isn’t that the point of StumbleUpon/Digg/etc… to get exposure?” No surprise, I never heard back.
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#16 written by Mike 4 years ago
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Hehe.
is that /vent rank5?