My previous posts about this, Comment for a Digg and Comment for a Stumble, may have confused you.

I required nothing in return for doing what I offered, not even a comment really. I took care of requests through email as well. Yesterday, I removed the links from the sidebar that pointed to the articles. Some people perceived the offers in the wrong way, as shameless comment-generating tools. That wasn't my intention and it still isn't.

Since I get a lot of visitors every day (don't let the Alexa stats fool you because they're not accurate at all), getting a comment or an email message from someone who has never contacted me before introduces me to new blogs, new ideas, and information I might have never seen otherwise. That was my intention.

It worked, for awhile. Like all things, people tend to get tired of doing the same thing all the time. I don't blame anyone for giving up on it. Of course, my opinion of getting "dugg" versus getting "stumbled" is that Digg is not worth the effort in the comparison. Digg users tend to come in flocks, using up all the connections to your server, thus making it inaccessible to anyone else. They quickly skim an article and leave. I have never seen that happen with StumbleUpon.

As I mentioned in StumbleUpon - A Blog Author’s Best Friend (For Now), there's a better way to let me (and other people you have added as friends at StumbleUpon) know to stumble a post for you. That is how I do it now. If I see a little number next to the "Stumble" button, I click it and it takes me to the page the person would like to have stumbled.

As before, I require nothing in return. I don't need to be stumbled or anything like that in reciprocation. Just be aware that I'm not here at the computer 24 hours a day, even though sometimes it might appear that way.