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So which is it? Ryan: "There had been a total of five posts ever made to the account." (with screenshots of said posts) Meagan: "There were not 'several posts

So which is it? Ryan: "There had been a total of five posts ever made to the account." (with screenshots of said posts) Meagan: "There were not 'several posts', on that account, there were zero." While I agree that in either case, it was hardly a highly-used and highly-trafficked site, the fact that Tumblr can't get their numbers straight tells me at the very least that someone didn't do their due diligence to know exactly what they were handing over.

thehodge 17y ago
Ryan : Within 10 minutes, a tumblr representative responded: “Hi, Megan. Those URLs are now free. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with. Thanks for using Tumblr!” Meagan : As per our policy, we emailed this account’s address to inquire about the dormant account. After you failed to respond for 72 hours, we released the domain. Was it 10 minutes or was it 72 hours?
- ohashi 17y ago
  Probably 10 minutes. That guy has no reason to lie. Meagan, does. Her response is also awful and she should be fired, she clearly has no respect for the users and without users... well we all know what happens.
  - bstrand 17y ago
    I think you totally misread the motivational factors here. That guy (aka Tumbledore) could easily want to lie to bolster the justification for the indignation he obviously feels. Meaghan, OTOH, has many more reasons not to want to lie, foremost of which is that she is representing an entire actual company. Tumbledore has nothing to lose and everything to gain, since all that's at stake here is his internet "personal brand", for which notoriety is the stock-in-trade. UPDATE: sh4na is correct that I misinterpreted "that guy" to mean Tumbledore, not Ryan of Pitchfork. The 10 minutes vs. 72 hours discrepancy is significant, but to presume that Ms. O'Connell is lying over-reaches. That is, unless one presumes that she's personally conducted an investigation of the support staff's emails and the account management history in order to satisfy the ego of an entitled netbrat, and is now knowingly misrepresenting the true facts of this very important matter.
    - sh4na 17y ago
      You are confused, that guy is not the blog owner, he is the Founder of Pitchfork, and obviously he has no reason to lie. The fact that the Tumblr version blatantly contradicts him only makes it that much obvious that that Meaghan person is the one lying about the whole thing.
    - dkersten 17y ago
      If she didn't know the facts and never did her part to find out, she should not have posted such a post and may as well be lying, since she states conflicting information as fact.
- dkersten 17y ago
  Was it 10 minutes or was it 72 hours? Well, according to the email posted to http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393276231/this-is-in-response-to-me-being-libeled-by-a http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393276231/this-is-in-respo... they did NOT give 72 hours notice, so definitely 10 minutes.
bstrand 17y ago
The screenshots were from Google Reader. Meaghan has indicated elsewhere that the posts had been deleted, and the GReader posts are simply a history of what little activity there had been there. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyamehQd51qajoo8.png http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyamehQd51qajoo8.png Have a look at those posts. One from March 14th says outright that it's not being used as a blog: DONT FOLLOW ME I AM NOT A REAL TUMBLE BLOG That guy has an active blog on Tumblr as Tumbledore. He clearly was using that account as an alternative dashboard, which is legit, but certainly doesn't need a special domain. I could see being put out a little bit about losing the domain, but his histrionic proclamations of oppression are a severe over-reaction. They have the smell of self-entitled internet personality. I have little doubt that Tumblr exhibited more diligence in investigating this matter than was due Tumbledore for taking back a domain on their service. That domain a) had only been used as a convenience account, not for publishing anything, and b) that only in the distant past. Add to that c) it was occupying a subdomain that matches the trademark of another customer whom had requested it, and d) they gave him a reasonable opportunity to appeal. 72 hours does seem unnecessarily brief, but in this case it's immaterial.

thehodge 17y ago

Ryan : Within 10 minutes, a tumblr representative responded: “Hi, Megan. Those URLs are now free. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with. Thanks for using Tumblr!” Meagan : As per our policy, we emailed this account’s address to inquire about the dormant account. After you failed to respond for 72 hours, we released the domain. Was it 10 minutes or was it 72 hours?

ohashi 17y ago
Probably 10 minutes. That guy has no reason to lie. Meagan, does. Her response is also awful and she should be fired, she clearly has no respect for the users and without users... well we all know what happens.
- bstrand 17y ago
  I think you totally misread the motivational factors here. That guy (aka Tumbledore) could easily want to lie to bolster the justification for the indignation he obviously feels. Meaghan, OTOH, has many more reasons not to want to lie, foremost of which is that she is representing an entire actual company. Tumbledore has nothing to lose and everything to gain, since all that's at stake here is his internet "personal brand", for which notoriety is the stock-in-trade. UPDATE: sh4na is correct that I misinterpreted "that guy" to mean Tumbledore, not Ryan of Pitchfork. The 10 minutes vs. 72 hours discrepancy is significant, but to presume that Ms. O'Connell is lying over-reaches. That is, unless one presumes that she's personally conducted an investigation of the support staff's emails and the account management history in order to satisfy the ego of an entitled netbrat, and is now knowingly misrepresenting the true facts of this very important matter.
  - sh4na 17y ago
    You are confused, that guy is not the blog owner, he is the Founder of Pitchfork, and obviously he has no reason to lie. The fact that the Tumblr version blatantly contradicts him only makes it that much obvious that that Meaghan person is the one lying about the whole thing.
  - dkersten 17y ago
    If she didn't know the facts and never did her part to find out, she should not have posted such a post and may as well be lying, since she states conflicting information as fact.
dkersten 17y ago
Was it 10 minutes or was it 72 hours? Well, according to the email posted to http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393276231/this-is-in-response-to-me-being-libeled-by-a http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393276231/this-is-in-respo... they did NOT give 72 hours notice, so definitely 10 minutes.

bstrand 17y ago

The screenshots were from Google Reader. Meaghan has indicated elsewhere that the posts had been deleted, and the GReader posts are simply a history of what little activity there had been there. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyamehQd51qajoo8.png http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyamehQd51qajoo8.png Have a look at those posts. One from March 14th says outright that it's not being used as a blog: DONT FOLLOW ME I AM NOT A REAL TUMBLE BLOG That guy has an active blog on Tumblr as Tumbledore. He clearly was using that account as an alternative dashboard, which is legit, but certainly doesn't need a special domain. I could see being put out a little bit about losing the domain, but his histrionic proclamations of oppression are a severe over-reaction. They have the smell of self-entitled internet personality. I have little doubt that Tumblr exhibited more diligence in investigating this matter than was due Tumbledore for taking back a domain on their service. That domain a) had only been used as a convenience account, not for publishing anything, and b) that only in the distant past. Add to that c) it was occupying a subdomain that matches the trademark of another customer whom had requested it, and d) they gave him a reasonable opportunity to appeal. 72 hours does seem unnecessarily brief, but in this case it's immaterial.