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⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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tbh, I think the fact that you really like and enjoy tumblr but people here like to deride it has something to do with your opinions... I mean, I get that. It would make me sad too if something I like was commonly being described as the scourge of fandom and whatnot. But I think that your reasoning behind why people like it is very faulty.

I'm one of the crowd who doesn't particularly like what tumblr has done to fandom, and it has nothing to do with the age but like said above, you can't really communicate. You can't edit a post and then everybody sees the edit - because your original post is already all over the place and will be forever more. Tumblr is mostly a bunch of people shouting into the void, and that lack of discussion also doesn't foster people developing actual analytical skills or the ability to HAVE discussions. On LJ, because there's a stronger sense of community, there is the possibility of developing a community-specific culture where new members can learn accepted ways of interaction and behavior within the context of whatever given community, and young people can also be (sometimes!) positively influenced by the older generation of fans, because voices are heard. Whereas on tumblr nobody has to learn anything or adapt or become part of a real community at all, because the only borders of the tumblr community are tumblr itself.

So I guess I feel like it's not fair to blame misogyny for what's really a format and generational problem, at the end of the day.

That's fair. I'm not saying that the only reason people hate Tumblr is because of sexism or ageism, but the sheer magnitude of it is very telling, to the point where I've started avoiding people who openly deride the site, especially the people who disparage it for the reasons I made an account in the first place.

I'm just going to contradict one thing. The experience I had with LJ (which was my only other fandom site, so it's my only basis of comparison) was one of several different communities within the same fandom, which made me get bored easily because it was the same thing over and over whereas Tumblr has the tag tracking system and no barriers between different interests of fandom, so I basically have to blacklist like crazy and even then I see a lot of things I don't give two cents about.

I think I'm just defending it so hard because I don't see...well, anyone else doing that, really.

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Re: I get where you are coming from, but I have to disagree.

Re: I get where you are coming from, but I have to disagree.