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Apr 28

quote This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.

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John Mayer: Twitter Isn’t “Over”, I’m Over It.

After three years at this, I can’t begin to describe the feeling of having this philosophy — the reason Tumblr will never feature a legacy comment system — described so perfectly.

I love you, John.
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Huh, so THIS is the rationale behind it. I see…
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I can’t help but reblog and lol at john fucking mayer deigning to be profound about twitter participation. Wevs dude.

That said, while I respect the philosophy behind having no from-the-ground support for comments, I also can’t help but see that as why big discussions are so unwieldy to follow on tumblr. If a post has been quoted more than twice, it is like pulling teeth to find the original source, so I often just skim over anything that looks that involved. I also don’t like how reblogged quotes end up looking (I know you can change the look, but the default is ugly and is what people tend to use). Overall, blogging and replying to people on tumblr is way too cumbersome for me, so I just read my dashboard and move on these days.

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