Stumble Upon’s mathematical challenge

Ok, either they are a bit mathematically challenged or they have some secret algorithm no one knows about… I went into Stumble today and saw that Grant added me as a friend. Immediately I went to his page, but oh deary me, I cannot add him as a friend as I’ve reached my 200 friend cap.

Thats odd, as on my page header it says that I only have 166 fans, which I always thought was the sum of your friends and the people you are a fan of.

When I go to my friends page, I see that in fact if I add my friends to the folks who I’m a fan of, I get 171.

Either I’ve missed a class or two of advanced mathematics (you know, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”) or there is bugs in their system or someone cannot add and subtract over there. Oh well, I’ll add you as a friend, Grant, as soon as they clear this little matter of maths. Which ever way, I’m still a big fan of Stumble!

2 Comments to "Stumble Upon’s mathematical challenge"

• Grant said: On 02/02/2008 at 12:00 pm

  Hehe… thanks Stii.
  200 seems like a silly limit to have in the first place. You can understand why they’ve limited it (otherwise it ends up like mybloglog) but 200 is harsh.

• MyndzAye said: On 02/02/2008 at 3:25 pm

  Stii
  Far be it from me to say that this is “THE” cause, but it is possible that you may have your profile set to not display “adult” themed pages and / stumblers.
  At the moment, when I look at your friends page, I see 163 and 37 in Mutual and Friends showing you pages, respectively.

Spit it out!

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