[ SECRET POST #2923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2923 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 065 secrets from Secret Submission Post #418.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Critical reasoning is in short supply on Tumblr though (which may be part of the reason it's such a terrible place for even discourse as trivial in the grand scheme of things as fandom discussion).

Tumblr is more about knee-jerk over-reacting bandwagon-jumping and generally jumping and hate-mobbing on anyone who expresses even the mildest form of discord.

I'm not sure where to find critical reasoning anymore, honestly. Which is both sad and scary.

[lb_lee]

Enh, I've gotten caught by fake posts too. Again, the UI makes it worse.

For instance, if I come on F!S and say, I dunno, "Jesus was actually a Men's Rights Activist and anyone who says otherwise is MISANDRIST," people would come down on me like a sack of bricks. And then, anyone who saw my comment would see all the "NUH UH"s underneath.

However, with TUMBLR, what happens is I make a post like that, and it's very easy never to see the "NUH UH"s. Especially if my post goes viral and everyone mindlessly reblogs it without any of the commentary, so people keep rehashing the same shit over and over, unable to see that it's already been done without sorting through thousands of reblogs.

So yeah, part of it is an echo chamber effect, but the very interface makes it worse.

Pervocracy does some pretty great debunking though; surely there must be some debunking tumblrs out there, and they must have all the material they could ever want.

[(Anonymous)]

I quit Tumblr for exactly that reason, actually. I'd seen a bunch of posts with misinformation come across my dashboard over time. I'd tried to correct them, but, well, I had less than a dozen followers. The misinformation had thousands of reblogs. I might as well have been yelling at a hurricane. (The final straw -- someone reposting a cutesy misdefinition of a word originally coined to justify slavery, and saying 'omg this is so me!!!') It just got too exhausting.

[lb_lee]

Ugh, yeah. If I never have to see that stupid "OMG gaiz, sugar in sodas carmelize when you heat it ISN'T THAT DISGUSTING???" post ever again, it'll still be too late.

YES GUYS. SUGAR CARMELIZES. THAT'S HOW CANDY GETS MADE. GAH.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It drives me nuts when it comes to missing people, because 9 times out of 10 a quick googling shows the person was found three years ago!

[lb_lee]

Oh man, I didn't even THINK about that! Yeah, due to tumblr's UI, it's not clear whether a missing person post is days or years old.