Don't get the wrong idea. No boasting about my imaginary conquests on this one. I'm wondering if, unintentionally, I've given a lasting headache to a site owner who doesn't deserve one.
Two sites that I've recently stumbled:
1. One that belonged to somebody else. This one was sort of on hiatus when I discovered it, but the artist has done interesting work elsewhere, so I posted something along the lines of "let's watch this site":
As luck would have it, Tribe went down just as I was stumbling my newish metablog, with the result that the title quoted was just the url; Stumbleupon could not contact that other blog of mine until the next day, at which point I noticed something a little bothersome: the title on the review page wasn't updating. I'm a relative newcomer to this site, and I'm wondering if that's how the system works - are titles on the review pages immutable?
If so, mildly annoying for me, but potentially very annoying for Ms.Riley, if, as I suspect, this site is to be her main presence online, because if so, the review page is always going to list her site with the title "Welcome to your website", instead of the more suggestive "Kate Riley Photography".
My apologies to somebody who probably doesn't know about this yet if this is so; I was just hoping to get people to her site for the grand reopening and now I'm wondering if I've accidentally sabotaged that. Looking at that title on the review page, who would even guess what the site was, and who would check it out?
Is this the case? Have I s****ed the pooch and not even had the decency to buy it a drink, first? (sighing as I write this and ... well ... you know)
One solution when she goes live review the site then? Maybe even bookmark this review and then put a link to that new site...I think if it does go live people will thumb up the front page and several pages
I think sometimes people can petition TPTB to remove the site from the SU catalog.
1: Try deleting your review and undoing the thumbs up of her site. That might return it to undiscovered as long as no one else has thumbed or reviewed it meanwhile. YMMV
Then start over. He-he, you might want to copy your review text so that you can paste it back in when you resubmit with a better title.
I tried undiscovering the second site ("Stumbling into the Void" on Tribe), and nothing changed. On the other hand, when somebody removed a video I had reviewed from Youtube, effectively changing its title there, and the title did change here, so at this point I'm not as worried about the problem with the first site, the one belonging to the innocent bystander.
Maybe this is just some weird connection problem with Tribe, and I read too much into it. I suppose this would not be the first time another site had some sort of problem of that sort with Tribe - one still can't claim a Tribe blog on Technorati, and on checking I find that Tribe hasn't proved willing to talk with Technorati about the problem, despite the fact this has been an issue raised in a very reasonable manner, with a request for attention that has been pending for over two years.
so I'm going to hold off, at least a little, on bothering Stumbleupon about this, and won't bother them at all if only the Tribe blog ends up being affected. I'm sure they have plenty of people to butt heads with during their day without my introducing them to somebody new, and if Tribe is going to blow off Technorati, an actual blog search engine, I can't picture them being any more willing to work with StumbleUpon. Oh, well. Stuff happens and it teaches one valuable lessons like, maybe, that one ought to find a better host for one's metablog than Tribe? I'll have to give that one some thought.
Guys, thanks for taking the time to answer this.
Update, June 13: I later followed your suggestions, unthumbing Ms. Riley's site by clicking on the thumbs up, which allowed me to undiscover her site, which I then rediscovered when its title was in place. This worked. Thanks again for your help.
The second site I mentioned, that blog of mine at Tribe, had already received a thumbs up from another user when we last spoke, so I couldn't undiscover it. I do have a help request pending with Stumbleupon, and I'll see what they can do.
Update, June 22: I gather that what Stumbleupon can (or at least will) do is nothing - I never heard back from the help desk. Which doesn't surprise me, as I don't think that we as users are anything but numbers to SU, but at least I tried. I do appreciate the suggestion that I do so, taking it in the spirit in which it was probably offered.
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