| | theRealDE | Apr 27, 10:24pm | | I am wondering when stumble is going to extend the age-old 200 friend limit that has been an irritation for years, and continues to impede one's ability to expand his circle of friends at stumble. As we all know, 200 friends does not accommodate 200 active friendships. It also includes old friends, and courtesy adds, and people added before one knew what they were doing, and ex girlfriends, and future girlfriends, and ex clients, and future clients, and someone's grandmother who's feelings you don't wish to hurt, and those whom may be important to you but you can't remember. What is the huge big deal about allowing a sponsor member to have a couple hundred more marked as friends? |
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Sponsor |  ericthehamster | Apr 28, 12:53am | As a sponsor, you have the same limit on friends as a non-sponsor (but I was under this mistaken impression in my early time here).
I think the issue is to do with the quality of the stumbles - it doesn't work as well if you have more than a certain amount of friends (but someone more technical can explain that!)
The problem is compounded by the use of the term "friends", which we all confuse with a community concept - here it is purely related to the stumbling experience.
One way around this is to tag people with whom you like to chat etc, which partially resolves the problem of having easy access to their urls.
Other than that, I would support a feature which allowed us to have "friends" in the more traditional community sense, and which didn't interfere with the stumble algorithm. |
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Sponsor | | imorgen | Apr 28, 3:35am | Yeah, I think it's a feature request really.
features.group.stumbleupon.com [features.group.stumbleupon.com]
I don't think it's a matter of when, but if they will extend the limit. As for 'courtesy adds', I think that's one of the reasons why there is a limit - it's about adding people whose stumbles you like, rather than people you like or whose feelings you don't want to hurt. Tagging - good idea eric. |
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Sponsor | | anitab | Apr 28, 5:08am | I thought the same thing imorgen.. but before we take it to features... perhaps it's a good idea to thrash out the ideas here.
My initial and brief thoughts:
For: Helps community building stuff (being friendly is always nice).
Against: Dilutes quality stumbles. Encourages popularity contests (huge negative).
I guess I don't have a problem with a limit... perhaps just increasing the limit would be nice.
And limiting that to sponsors? Well, I like that idea too. |
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|  altfthirteen | Apr 28, 5:17am | extending the friends limit has been one the most asked questions since.... well when I started, usually a thread appears every few weeks or so.... which results in quite a few stumblers agreeing in extending the limit - often it results in putting a message in the features forum where it eventually gets ignored.
hence stumble.stop.repeat
what I am suggesting is to have a petition of some sort, therefore showing our backing towards the idea, poll, sticky badge on our pages for support for >200 or something along those lines would be a good idea
maybe the devs could state why we would could/not have the >200 friends ? |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Apr 28, 5:40am | I wonder whether the devs would be more receptive to a request for a separate "chums" feature, rather than extending the existing "friends" limit (which appears to be sacrosanct)?
If that were a possibility - and therefore no danger of diluting the quality of stumbles - perhaps fewer of us would resist it (popularity contests notwithstanding, but then that is a matter for those individuals who wish to play that game).
Interesting query, Imorgen, perhaps it is something that is being addressed, but behind the scenes. |
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Sponsor | | ferretsgames | Apr 28, 5:52am | I would back a "chums" feature ericthehamster.
A popularity contest need not come into it as it could remain private. |
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| | altfthirteen | Apr 28, 5:59am | FG that is a good idea, ETH wasn't that said in another forum as well? still a good point though.
see this what occurs as I pointed out in post 5 were going in circles here :) |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Apr 28, 6:02am | I'm not sure alt13, it might have been (not very good at keeping up to date!), and yes, you're right about the going round in circles.
Just some sort of response saying whether the request was realistic and actually likely to happen would be helpful (hint). |
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