Apr
13

StumbleUpon - My “algorithm” to deal with friends limit

I like StumbleUpon. My website gets many visits from there. But as many ( blahblahtech and traffikd ) I have an issue with the friends limit.
Said briefly you can be fan of at most 200 people. After that you get a warning and you cannot add more fans. You cannot even reciprocate a fan of yours. So you are in a kind of deadlock.
I devise this sort of algorithm to deal with such a situation:

  • Become fan of a friend
  • if he reciprocates fine
  • if he doesn’t, persuade him to unfriend inactive people he is fan of
  • if he doesn’t reply for a while unfriend him, because he is not active or does not share any interest with you

In Actionscript :)

var limit:int = 2; // weeks

for each (stumbler:People in peopleYouAreFanOf) {
	if (!stumbler.reciprocates() ||
            !stumbler.persuaded() ||
            stumbler.getRepliesWithin(limit) == 0)
        {
		stumbler.unfriend();
	}
	else {
		you.sayThanks(stumbler);
		you.interactWith(stumbler);
	}
}
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2 Comments

  • Caroline Middlebrook Said:

    As a former programmer, I LOVE the code snippet :) There is a slight optimisation you can apply to the purging of inactive friends - your friends list in StumbleUpon is sorted according to activity. If you scroll down to the bottom you’ll find the person who logged in the longest time ago. Just do a regular purge of people who are no longer active.

  • funkyboy Said:

    I didn’t know it was sorted! Thanks for the information. Honestly I never happened to unfriend people in a social network…

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