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http://blue-author.tumblr.com/post/128305606460/ Anonymous asks can you ex plain the whole tumbir doesn't want discourse thing to me Sure. goes lke this Tumbir was conceived of as a microblogging site a la Iwitter. It S less intended for creating content than sharing content, and they never really intended for people to write long pieces of text or have conversations back and forth on them You can see this in how quick Tumblr has always been to truncate conversations and change them from "reblog as text" to "reblog as inks". What's really telling is the fact that they didn't include any SU he site's architecture doesn't reallu accommodate picture posts (since t would hide the picture), but that's not the reason picture posts don't truncate. If they had thought it important to include truncation for picture posts, they would have created a post type hat accommodated i cation feature for picture posts, only for text posts. Now, ca cation changes the post type to link, which No, they just didn't plain didn't count on the idea that people would be having conversations below picture posts. The space below pictures is for captions, not conversations. They expect social interaction to happen. T hey count on it. But serious discourse Long conversationsThis is both counter to their expectations and their perceived interest I mean, in the first place, the same three or four people talking back and forth on a post doesn't produce the same value from their point of view as one person creating something that catches fire and circulates on its own, collecting a string of one-line notes or reblogs without comment umblr doesn't want to be responsible for But more importan keeping peace in an atmosphere where people are using Tumblr to discuss politics or vent about their personal struggles instead of posting song lyrics and pictures of cats and superheroes. The presence of what some call social justice discourse on Tum he ad hoc communities that have sprung up around marginalized identies is something that the corporate masters can only see as a headache. lo put it simply: the want producr, not progress tly, T bir and So this is why we get update after update designed to make the site less useful to the serious user while appearing slicker to the more casual or newer user. This is why updates tend to make conversation harder. And most of all, this is why the staff doesn't e a rodent's hindquarters about protecting communities or policing hate... because the sooner people stop junking up their cat meme sharing service with serious discussion, the happier the suits will be. NOTES: 12910 9/3/1510:43pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZnWOOu1tVd2 FILED UNDER: #Anonymous

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http://blue-author.tumblr.com/post/128305606460/ Anonymous asks can you ex plain the whole tumbir doesn't want discourse thing to me Sure. goes lke this Tumbir was conceived of as a microblogging site a la Iwitter. It S less intended for creating content than sharing content, and they never really intended for people to write long pieces of text or have conversations back and forth on them You can see this in how quick Tumblr has always been to truncate conversations and change them from "reblog as text" to "reblog as inks". What's really telling is the fact that they didn't include any SU he site's architecture doesn't reallu accommodate picture posts (since t would hide the picture), but that's not the reason picture posts don't truncate. If they had thought it important to include truncation for picture posts, they would have created a post type hat accommodated i cation feature for picture posts, only for text posts. Now, ca cation changes the post type to link, which No, they just didn't plain didn't count on the idea that people would be having conversations below picture posts. The space below pictures is for captions, not conversations. They expect social interaction to happen. T hey count on it. But serious discourse Long conversationsThis is both counter to their expectations and their perceived interest I mean, in the first place, the same three or four people talking back and forth on a post doesn't produce the same value from their point of view as one person creating something that catches fire and circulates on its own, collecting a string of one-line notes or reblogs without comment umblr doesn't want to be responsible for But more importan keeping peace in an atmosphere where people are using Tumblr to discuss politics or vent about their personal struggles instead of posting song lyrics and pictures of cats and superheroes. The presence of what some call social justice discourse on Tum he ad hoc communities that have sprung up around marginalized identies is something that the corporate masters can only see as a headache. lo put it simply: the want producr, not progress tly, T bir and So this is why we get update after update designed to make the site less useful to the serious user while appearing slicker to the more casual or newer user. This is why updates tend to make conversation harder. And most of all, this is why the staff doesn't e a rodent's hindquarters about protecting communities or policing hate... because the sooner people stop junking up their cat meme sharing service with serious discussion, the happier the suits will be. NOTES: 12910 9/3/1510:43pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZnWOOu1tVd2 FILED UNDER: #Anonymous

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