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I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

by znpy 5y ago

nixpulvis 5y ago
Probably because of other people.
javajosh 5y ago
>why does this person still spends their time on tumblr Because it's not all bad? Because the problems they experience are relatively minor and fixable, and that by complaining about this bug it might get fixed?
kosma 5y ago
Tumblr is still the best place to be for many people - even despite all those flaws. For many, there is no better "somewhere else" people can "just" move to.
Mashimo 5y ago
last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)
- bitwize 5y ago
  Foone is a they.
  - atatatat 5y ago
    "is a" or "goes by"?
    - mplewis 5y ago
      There is no meaningful distinction.
  - JasonFruit 5y ago
    This sounds wrong too. Maybe, "Foone is they"? You don't want to misnumber them, though; maybe "Foone _are_ they"? That makes them sound epic, though: Foone are legion! Changing language is hard, whether done organically or initiated intentionally and for a purpose.
    - bitwize 5y ago
      I'm following a pattern used in casual English, exemplified by the sentence: "Is your dog a he or a she?"
    - spaztastical 5y ago
      ee/ee's? or ze?
  - deleted 5y ago
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bombcar 5y ago
A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.
- jdofaz 5y ago
  For me google+ was like that for a while towards the end, but eventually there was a resurgence of trolls posting hate speech that drove me away.
- floatboth 5y ago
  > the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist Ha ha ha. Tumblr is the place where you get followed (sometimes even messaged) by porn spam accounts regularly. This problem is so infamous that even some ARG creators literally used the "spam bot aesthetic" (but with weirder messages) to pull people in: https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0 https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

by znpy 5y ago

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

nixpulvis 5y ago

Probably because of other people.

javajosh 5y ago

>why does this person still spends their time on tumblr Because it's not all bad? Because the problems they experience are relatively minor and fixable, and that by complaining about this bug it might get fixed?

kosma 5y ago

Tumblr is still the best place to be for many people - even despite all those flaws. For many, there is no better "somewhere else" people can "just" move to.

Mashimo 5y ago

last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)

bitwize 5y ago
Foone is a they.
- atatatat 5y ago
  "is a" or "goes by"?
  - mplewis 5y ago
    There is no meaningful distinction.
- JasonFruit 5y ago
  This sounds wrong too. Maybe, "Foone is they"? You don't want to misnumber them, though; maybe "Foone _are_ they"? That makes them sound epic, though: Foone are legion! Changing language is hard, whether done organically or initiated intentionally and for a purpose.
  - bitwize 5y ago
    I'm following a pattern used in casual English, exemplified by the sentence: "Is your dog a he or a she?"
  - spaztastical 5y ago
    ee/ee's? or ze?
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

bombcar 5y ago

A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.

jdofaz 5y ago
For me google+ was like that for a while towards the end, but eventually there was a resurgence of trolls posting hate speech that drove me away.
floatboth 5y ago
> the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist Ha ha ha. Tumblr is the place where you get followed (sometimes even messaged) by porn spam accounts regularly. This problem is so infamous that even some ARG creators literally used the "spam bot aesthetic" (but with weirder messages) to pull people in: https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0 https://youtu.be/ZaYioM_bsb0