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But you already know how stupid and lazy this idea is. Tumblr may be a company. But it was also a community. Real relationships were made on there. I wasn't bi

But you already know how stupid and lazy this idea is. Tumblr may be a company. But it was also a community. Real relationships were made on there. I wasn't big on Tumblr but it meant the whole world to thousands of people growing up. Verizon could make its decisions in the context of running a company, or in the context of running a community. They chose the former, because as a money machine they have no interest in spending capital to be the bearers of a meaningful online community which facilitates the formation of meaningful connections between people.

darkpuma 8y ago
> "But you already know how stupid and lazy this idea is." Aka cheap. Cheap is key, that's what Verizon cares about. Particularly since they're unable to monetize the legal pornographic content anyway, so ridding the site of it is doubly cheap.
- kakarot 8y ago
  You missed the point. Verizon only values cheapness over duty to their community precisely because of what I just said. They want to run a company, not a community. The same thing happened when Yahoo was running the show, the bleed-out was just slower because they were more timid about making sweeping changes to Tumblr's ecosystem. Instead of Yahoo or Verizon realizing that they weren't fit to run a community and divesting the company to more competent leadership, as money machines they were unable to recognize the human element behind these companies and ripped them to shreds trying to scrounge up pocket change.
  - darkpuma 8y ago
    > You missed the point. Verizon only values cheapness over duty to their community Of course they do. It's foolish to ever believe that isn't the case, with any for profit corporation. Who do you expect to run tumblr as a charity?
    - kakarot 8y ago
      It's foolish to miss my point twice and then insinuate I'm the one being foolish. I expect no one to run Tumblr as a charity. I never stated any expectations, only explanations. Tumblr disintegrated because they lost sight of their community, first with the Yahoo acquisition, and again with the Verizon merger. And now it's useless to everyone, both the users and the people who thought they could squeeze it dry for a few bucks. There's nothing to argue with. That's simply the facts. You're arguing a straw man and you don't even have a point, you're just playing a poor devil's advocate.

darkpuma 8y ago

> "But you already know how stupid and lazy this idea is." Aka cheap. Cheap is key, that's what Verizon cares about. Particularly since they're unable to monetize the legal pornographic content anyway, so ridding the site of it is doubly cheap.

kakarot 8y ago
You missed the point. Verizon only values cheapness over duty to their community precisely because of what I just said. They want to run a company, not a community. The same thing happened when Yahoo was running the show, the bleed-out was just slower because they were more timid about making sweeping changes to Tumblr's ecosystem. Instead of Yahoo or Verizon realizing that they weren't fit to run a community and divesting the company to more competent leadership, as money machines they were unable to recognize the human element behind these companies and ripped them to shreds trying to scrounge up pocket change.
- darkpuma 8y ago
  > You missed the point. Verizon only values cheapness over duty to their community Of course they do. It's foolish to ever believe that isn't the case, with any for profit corporation. Who do you expect to run tumblr as a charity?
  - kakarot 8y ago
    It's foolish to miss my point twice and then insinuate I'm the one being foolish. I expect no one to run Tumblr as a charity. I never stated any expectations, only explanations. Tumblr disintegrated because they lost sight of their community, first with the Yahoo acquisition, and again with the Verizon merger. And now it's useless to everyone, both the users and the people who thought they could squeeze it dry for a few bucks. There's nothing to argue with. That's simply the facts. You're arguing a straw man and you don't even have a point, you're just playing a poor devil's advocate.