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Are you a Tumblr user? Because the large part of the community occurs on the Dashboard, through reblogging and passing things along. You get some people who com
by unalone 18y ago
Are you a Tumblr user? Because the large part of the community occurs on the Dashboard, through reblogging and passing things along. You get some people who comment back-and-forth, some people who act as nodes for large amounts of content. I'd love to map it: you get a brilliant web built up.
Tumblr isn't about the individual blog community. It's about the Tumblr community. And I like, actually, that when you look at a blog it seems entirely personal, but that from the dashboard it seems like parts of a larger community.
Also: see http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864 http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864, where you can see the actions of an item in the community. They've also beta-tested a "questions" module, which you can see here: http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcakes-in-williamsburg http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcake...
The Tumblr founders are very against comments, and I love that. Comments don't form a community. They add a facade of a community in all but the best cases. Community relies on the form of the medium, and commenting very rarely is the answer. With forums, you have threads; with Tumblr, you have likes, reblogs, and answers. It's a wonderful solution.
- rantfoil 18y agoThe concept of bubbling up conversation to the top level of one's own published blog is fascinating. I didn't quite understand reblogging before reading your explanation, and I think that's the main downside to the scheme, but there is certainly value in making the act of commenting ALSO an act of publishing on one's own blog.
- unalone 18y agoYeah. It's tough to understand, and sometimes I feel that it detracts from the blog entirely (extended back-and-forth conversations start to look amateur), but it's a very neat system that gives you a lot of freedom in how you choose to handle interaction.