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[...] articles written at the time it went viral, check these out� Nick Wilsdon blogs about it first. An interview with the creator. From someone who got it �and someone who obviously [...]

By: GFYM

GFYM — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:43:28 +0000

I just hate stumblecards.
There are really no purpose to them.
Annoing and useless.
Can’t trade them, can’t eat them, can’t sell them, can’t win anything big.
And uhh, when you have “collected” all off them you have to solve the puzzle.
Just give me all off them and 5 min. and it solved !
Don’t waste my precious time.
Life starts with a push on a button (1) and goes out with a bang (25), all in between are just fill.

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:51:54 +0000

You knew about this Nick? Prior to Tuesday? You kept that quiet ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:56:40 +0000

Stumblecards really piss me off. I use Stumbleupon to find new and interesting sites, but lately I’ve just been incessantly spammed by them, seems like every 10th site is a one of these abominations. And they keep coming no matter how many I thumbs-down.

By: Reality Crowd » Blog Archive » Stumblecards and Social Media Psychology

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:01:04 +0000

[...] creator of stumblecards, stopped by this post to give us some information. Apparently there is an official list of stumblecards available. You can find that list at http://www.upnatom.org/ the official site of [...]

By: robojiannis

robojiannis — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:03:00 +0000

@Adam Tom
My objection lies on the fact, that all games are supposed to have a purpose: reach a certain goal, win the most points, collect many cards.
This puzzle is supposed to be a game without any clear goals. Noone knows what to do with it.

When the web is full of attention grabbers, why should I care more about SU cards than any other puzzle or game?

By: jay1971jay

jay1971jay — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:54:24 +0000

@ Adam Atom

So you say there ‘is’ a puzzle to solve, but once solved is there a prize to be won?? Ifso, what?

By: Adam Atom

Adam Atom — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:30:00 +0000

@Robojiannis & Nick

Let’s say for example that I am playing the ‘stumblecard’ game. I’ve been collecting the cards as I stumble them… if I was aiming to get an edge over another stumbler I might hang onto the link to a particular card just in case it’s a rare one. That means BOOKMARKING it, as opposed to thumbing it up, because like Nick said… it only takes one person to submit the link to SU before everybody else starts to stumble onto it.

@Robojiannis

You are correct! You cannot technically search for the cards… because I have been using different naming conventions for each one. The idea is that YOU MUST STUMBLE THEM. If you don’t stumble them, then you must rely on someone generous enough to pass you the link? or even swap links? This was the original way I envisaged the game would be played.

HARD TO FIND CARDS >>
The trick is in the tags! I can tag a card so it is only stumbled by certain people with particular interests or I can make the card easier to stumble by tagging the card with ‘stumblecard’ for example, which basically means everyone will soon have it.

The reason SU is involved is simply for the randomness of finding a card. It’s a platform for circulating the cards on the web. However, due to the amount of negative reviews the cards are getting, I’m thinking of branching out of SU altogether… stay tuned.

SU was just the beginning… next stop, the whole world! ha, ha, ha, ha… just kidding :)

@Robojiannis

There IS a puzzle to solve… you only have to look a little deeper into the cards!

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:29:26 +0000

@Robojiannis

You make a good point about searching for the cards. If the first person discovers the card and submits it to SU then everyone would ‘discover’ it in time. If the point is to find it and not submit, then why involve StumbleUpon?

I can’t answer that one but as always, Adam is welcome to comment here.

By: robojiannis

robojiannis — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:53:15 +0000

I’m sorry to say, that I still don’t get the purpose of stumblecards. Adam says, that there is a puzzle to be solved; searching the cards deep in the web.
No one really searches for the cards and there is no puzzle in it.
We are all puzzled of their existence, but that’s just about it.