[ SECRET POST #2930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2930 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In this thread: people who were likely in the established cliques and thus had no problems or were incredibly lucky.

[(Anonymous)]

In this comment: someone making a huge amount of assumptions.

[diet_poison]

Tumblr and LJ are both cliquey. people are saying Tumblr's not but I really don't think that's true.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't think tumblr is cliquey because there is no option for private groups or posts only viewable to certain people. The only privacy you have is responding to someones 'ask' directly instead of posting it publicly. Otherwise you can follow any blog and automatically have it on your dash without needing to be approved. Unlike on LJ where some communities have a screening process and friends-locked posts.

Tumblr is great for updates. Once someone posts something it's viewable for everyone, whether your following them or searching the tags. Whereas on LJ there are lots of times only approved people have access.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry anon, you've just been lucky. I'm very pro-Tumblr, but I completely get why people don't like Tumblr as a fandom space.

And others have already mentioned the problems with following people who don't tag and how searches don't work properly, so I'll just say that the cliques there can indeed be private... they just go off-site to chat.

[(Anonymous)]

Just because you can follow someone's Tumblr without their approval, doesn't mean they're not part of a clique, though. Cliques don't have to operate in some kind of covert way. If anything, having outsiders watch (and covet belonging to, be it with gushing or jealous anon asks etc.) the cliquey behavior only reinforces it as superior to those within it, and creates that distinct "them" vs "us" line.

Cliques most certainly exist on Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

They are both cliquey. Life is cliquey, and where ever people gather, be it work, school, or online spaces, cliques will form.

The only difference as far as I can see is that they're much more visible on Tumblr purely because of the discussion upthread re: f-locking. Most of the LJ cliques pissed people off because no one could see/read what they were doing/saying. Tumblr cliques piss people off because they seem to flaunt it and rub people's noses in it instead. But they're still cliques, no matter where they are.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the LJ cliques pissed people off because no one could see/read what they were doing/saying.

Seriously?

"I have no idea what you're doing or saying and that makes me really mad! Because I have a right to know everything about you!"

Maybe it's because I'm from a different fandom generation, but I find this completely incomprehensible.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yes, basically.

"These people are having fun in their own group without me! That's wrong!"

I see that mindset every day, even now, even on Tumblr. Not sure why you'd think it's a generational thing. Rather, I'd suggest you've just been lucky to avoid it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not on Tumblr. And when I was on LJ, people were far more likely to get worked up about their privacy being broken (by LJ updates or whatever) than about excluded from something. So yeah, I guess I was lucky.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always been a lurker. Try again.