Yesterday, when I pressed the “Stumble” button of the StumbleUpon toolbar, I was greeted with this rather rude error message saying that my StumbleUpon account has been temporarily disabled due to “excessive use”.
Luckily, this was not an official warning from StumbleUpon but a prank page created by some anonymous user. Lot of other people seem to think that this is real and the site is therefore a big hit already at least among the SU community.
Related: Use StumbleUpon without installing toolbar
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/fake-stumbleupon-warning/6525/
Tags: Archives, error, fun, stumbleupon, Internet
Reader Comments
Never heard that SU bans people like on DIGG,
Amit can you share an article on How to play it safe on Digg without getting banned..? (and still submit your articles there)
Cheers
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 01.14.09
It happen with orkut too. Once I registered an orkut account. I got a “deleted” message,..I thought it is deleted….but I got that msg again and again…then I checked back…the account was active and working fine
Written by Satheesh on 01.16.09
Lol,its really a painwhen someone you trust or use,acts this way.
I always think,my Firefox is playing something. But thanks for this article. Good one..
Written by Soumendra Jena on 01.18.09