You, sir, are the messiah of Stumblers. It has been a long time, but finally you are here to guide us.

I thought I might help you add to the list though.

Here’s one you missed:

Narcissistic Douchebags

We all know SU is about sharing our bookmarks, and introducing our network to sites we found interesting. To flesh this out a bit Stumbletron lets us write blogs, PM each other, and discuss our interests in the groups section.

Some people excel at this, opening intellectual doors for their contacts, widening their horizons and shifting their perspectives. But that’s not how it works for everyone.

Some stumblers, see the enterprise as a popularity contest. They thumb links they know will be popular: pictures of seaside cottages, gifs of faeries, the latest Apple product, and never take the time to add content or reviews that make people think.

These people, due to their genuine blandness gain great popularity in the community, because they take great pains to never say anything that would upset another user, and thus damage their popularity. They love the thought of themselves, their mass of fans, and the spooging reviews they generate.

They’d never dream of ruining this position by saying something controversial on their SU blog. So instead they write it anonymously, and then get a trusted shill to add their commentary to stumbletron lest anyone disagree.

It’s very important that the pretense of benign benevolence doesn’t crack, or all that attention they pretend to hate may disappear, leaving them alone and lonely, with only their mundane day-to-day existence intact.

People like the author of this article. You, sir, are the cancer that killed SU.

“you suck -get over it. it comes with the territory of stumbling. Writing a crappy tirade won’t help a damnded thing budy. i hope you didnt submit this yourself”

I’d like to take just a moment to apologize to the human race for the sorry excuse for a moron quoted above.

This is as far as we’ve come folks. Get used to it.

Some of them still keep in touch with me even so
I’m not active anymore… I’ll probably get back into it
one of those days.

Anyway… back to the subject.
I’ve been pretty lucky, I suppose, as I never really met
the people you’ve mentioned (well, apart from the bikini
girls, but I didn’t mind them) but I’ve heard about it
quite a few times… Has it got worst lately then?

~jw