Stumbleupon gets into banning sites

In another rude surprise from stumbleupon, but probably one that is good for everyone, stumbleupon also has a banning system in place for all those who are quietly stumbling their own sites, or hitting up their friends to stumble each others sites as well.

There are a whole lot of folks leaning about this as well, while not new news, and not exactly something that anyone would be surprised by, I know how I use the system (bookmark every source for a story that I am writing in SU and call it a day), I run across sites that have been busy getting banned, and that can be interesting when it is something that degrades how I use the system.

Not a major deal, but something that people need to know about the system and how it works, if you hit your own site getting addicted to SU traffic, you will eventually get banned, just like theAsk the Admin folks who got banned at Digg.

There is something to be said about the misuse of Social Networking sites, either through own actions, over zealous parents and friends, of just having something popular every day (which happens, ask any of the top bloggers, they have fans and friends, some who hit every article on every social networking site everywhere).

Maybe much like the “how to submit to digg” that Read Write Web did, someone needs to come up with a stumbleupon guidelines for their sites.

If submitting techwag articles to Stumbleupon, we love it, and thank you, just don’t do it too often, don’t want to get banned.

Tags: psa, stumbleupon, banned, zealous, friends, family, parents, snowflake