Comments on: How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes

By: Querblogger

Querblogger — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:12:41 +0000

Hi there social community, could you please help me out in un-banning my Google Adsense account please?! I’ll check back in two hours! ;)

No, seriously. Although I love to hear that Problogger is back on StumbleUpon, I very much doubt that this is possible for every blogger in that fast way. I think Darren has a lot of influence in the blogosphere (and he has deserved this popularity) and is therefore treated kind of “special” in my opinion. No offense frmo my side, it’s just what I think about it.

See you,
Peter

By: gout

gout — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:27:39 +0000

well…great boss

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:35:04 +0000

SU put a ceiling on the traffic to my blog http://www.beyondmegapixels.com. I contacted them and Walter replied in an email and while he replied and was polite, it was the usual ambiguous, vague corporate response.

Don’t they read what the stumblers write on the reviews? They think me being on SU and stumbling some of our articles influenced the SU response to our articles. I don’t even know most of the people stumbling us. I feel like I’m being punished for existing on StumbleUpon. Or for having content that’s worth stumbling often.

And they probably think that just because we’re new and don’t have millions of readers the way you do, they can just shrug us off. I feel like I’m being pressured into being a sponsor and I don’t like it one bit.

By: David Leggett

David Leggett — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:51 +0000

I’d say getting Walter’s email was key to dealing with your situation so quickly. I remember when my site was first Stumbled (unexpectedly), and the user to stumble us listed our site as adult material or something of the likes. It took us 2 or 3 months (after filing a misclassification, and emailing them several times about it) to be listed properly.

It must be a hard task dealing with moderating a community like that.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:08:56 +0000

ok, I’m a bit behind but Wow! What an eye opener!

I’m a rookie in the whole Social Media world. Could someone enlighten me on how and why this whole banning thing works?

Thanks!

By: abdul

abdul — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:10:14 +0000

That was amazing Darren.

By: liam

liam — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:29:23 +0000

What did you learn today #5 – You’re more popular than batman in the world of twitter.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:55:46 +0000

OK . . . . why were you banned?

And why so grateful? If someone bans me unfairly, I want some grovelling, a case of wine, you know something to say sorreee!

By: ShaharY

ShaharY — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:36:06 +0000

Unfortunately, that is not the way Digg treats users. If they decide to ban a site – it is for good and without any human touch, they made a decision and that is it!
I am glad to hear that StumbleUpon respond in such cases… and fix their mistakes.
You can read about my case with Digg, they are very robotic comparing to Stumbleupon – http://www.dev102.com/2008/06/27/digg-the-worst-community-driven-site/

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:20:29 +0000

I’m missing something, though. Why did they ban you in the first place?

By: WikiPika

WikiPika — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:55:28 +0000

That’s awesome! Power to the bloggers!

By: Vacation Rentals

Vacation Rentals — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:33:05 +0000

tell em to fix account ravetildon also! :)

By: blogversary

blogversary — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:31:58 +0000

Wow, that is pretty exciting stuff. Glad you are back!

By: MJ Klein

MJ Klein — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:41:35 +0000

social media is powerful as long as what needs to get done is virtual and not actually something important. at the moment, Taiwan is being forced to participate at the Olympics as “Chinese Taipei” a fiction required by China at every event. i’d like to see social media fix that issue – or any other important issue for that matter. i’m not convinced of the power of social media. social disobedience, yes. but not social media itself. people just don’t get as upset over real issues as they do about ProBlogger getting banned from StumbleUpon. sad.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:38:42 +0000

Thats shows the potential social media has. It can be used positively and can be abused as well. Less than 2 hours was fast.

By: Nancy Nally

Nancy Nally — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:37:34 +0000

Sheesh, go shopping and I miss all the excitement! Darn!

I would really like to hear their explanation of how you ended up banned in the first place though. I don’t think it is sufficient that they just let you back in without explaining what happened.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:37:20 +0000

That happened really fast. I’m amazed.

Maybe this is a study in negative publicity. Look at the traffic generated to your site and to stumble upon. I’d have to think that there was no harm done to either.

BTW – I heard about it on Twitter.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:24:29 +0000

“2. StumbleUpon are responsive”

Hmm, maybe they shouldn’t have slurred your name and site in the first place. I’ve never been a great fan of SU and this incidence (despite having been resolved) does not encourage me to bother with them any longer. It’s not worth the risk.

By: Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:19:39 +0000

I’m slow – just heard about this, glad you got it sorted out.

Best wishes, Barbara

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:50:36 +0000

I Dugg both stories and I am pleased to see the situation taken care of so quickly.

Yay for the community you have surrounding you!!!

cheers ~