What am I moaning about now? Basically I am back to stupid people, yep you know the ones, those that should be banned from breathing, those that look at an instruction page as something for others to read, and of course those who just love to waste everyone elses time. Why am I talking about this now? Well allow me to tell you a little story…….

I have a number of blogs that I update a lot more regular than I do this one but the content that goes onto those blogs is thought out and studied as well as in many cases when it is a review I take the time to actually test the products that I review, unlike many people. So it does get to me and I know it shouldn’t as I have in the past gone after those special people at digg for their lack of responsible reading of posts giving things a rough time before they have read the post but today I realized the disease of stupidity has spread……to the one social site I have a great deal of time for…..StumbleUpon.

Stumbleupon sends me traffic, no matter what I seem to do it sends me people to my blogs, they don’t comment often, they hardly ever buy anything but they are people on the blogs and growing the reputation of the words I write. Over the past few weeks I have had a number of posts on reviews on particular products in a niche stumbled by people who read the blogs. Yesterday I had a negative comment from what can only be described as a complete moron, the lowest form of moron, the type that thing they are being clever by offering their comments. Let me quote this guys genius “If I had wanted to read a review on this product I would have searched for it! I would rather read multiple reviews!” BIG THUMBS DOWN next to the review. This particular site has around 150 reviews of different products! (obviously his brain couldn’t get past the fact that he was allowed use more than the normal crayon)

I am fairly thick skinned but this prat got to me, using stumbleupon where YOU CHOOSE the subjects you want to read about! So if you are into knitting and you are stumbling knitting sites and all of a sudden there is a review on the latest knitting needles from Nike should you be surprised at this being there? Should you take the time to abuse a site with your thumbs down? No! And StumbleUpon have now added the ability to put these reviews down as UNHELPFUL! I have added a quick pic so you can see what I mean.

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StumbleUpon is a great site and I spend a lot of time stumbling sites reading and giving reviews and I just feel there are too many people hot headed and lacking in ettiquette using social media for the wrong reasons without understanding how they actually work.

Moan over :o)