Here’s how bad it gets when you are seen as an outsider and a marketing spammer on a social network like StumbleUpon…
Marty Weintraub posted just now about receiving death threats and calls for suicide (in ways he didn’t detail in his post) from Stumblers who feel like StumbleUpon is theirs and not to be used to market…anything.
Nevermind that everyone who uses StumbleUpon is marketing something. If not their own website, they are marketing their own profile. They are marketing by their interaction. To make friends and be “approved of” by the micro-society of StumblUpon they most identify with. To have the deepest, top profile. Whatever, everyone is marketing on StumbleUpon.
Regardless, read how Marty tries dealing with the outpouring of hatred by visiting his local FBI office to see what can be done about clearly illegal harassment by these hardcore Stumblers.