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Why would they do this? Remove comments? Unless trolling and racism and abuse were an overwhelming problem on the platform (and I don't believe they were any wo
by caractacus 11y ago
Why would they do this? Remove comments? Unless trolling and racism and abuse were an overwhelming problem on the platform (and I don't believe they were any worse than anywhere else) why would a major platform built on user engagement deliberately disable comments?
- lmm 11y agoThey push people to reblog instead, which results in more overall engagement. (Probably because it makes it much easier to stoke flamewars, but that doesn't show up in the metrics...)
- theOnliest 11y agoBeats me. The announcement about them disabling it was in late October (http://support.tumblr.com/post/131951272032/pardon-our-dust-hey-you-know-the-reply-feature http://support.tumblr.com/post/131951272032/pardon-our-dust-...), and on Nov. 4 they confirmed they were coming back, eventually (http://support.tumblr.com/post/132577661107/david-wizardries-can-tumblr-make-it-so-we http://support.tumblr.com/post/132577661107/david-wizardries...). There's been no movement since then as far as I can tell. I think they want the reblog to be the primary form of engagement, but that's silly for a lot of things, because the entire original post shows up in the reblog by default. For a running community (just one example), that's pretty lousy: you don't want to clutter up your own blog just to say "That's really fast, congratulations! Keep it up!" to a dozen other people.