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You can only imagine how ashamed I am to have become a “nuisance” for you given the more than 4000 Americans killed with guns since the Newtown Massacre last December, and the tens of thousands more wounded or terrorized by people wielding guns.
Really: I’m heartbroken.
I get some version of this fairly inane comment pretty regularly, so in an effort to forestall this kind of comment in the future, two points in response:
1. This is my blog. I use it to explore ideas and attitudes from my point of view. If you want to explore the fantasy that anywhere near as many people are helped/saved by ready access to guns as are hurt by such access, feel free to explore it on your own blog. If — and it’s a mighty big “IF” — your evidence holds up over time, we’ll perhaps engage in a debate. But it’s not my job to support your point of view to you.
2. The answer to your question has been demonstrated time and time again: damn few. Very, very few. Extremely few. To argue that their remarkably few number of stories outweighs the carnage across society wrought by guns is quite absurd.
I realize these comments won’t stop such silly questions coming across my blog, but I had to try.
thanks for tumblr, a platform i have grown to love over the 6 years that i’ve been here.
i understand this is your project and i’ll understand if you sell it. but i wanted to point out, you left money on the table when it came to me.
i’d have paid a small fee to have a “no-ads” dashboard. you could have added all the ads you wanted ($$) and i’d have given you money ($$) to have them not show up for me. money in your pocket both ways.
i also would have paid a small fee for premium features ($$). all that time wasted on trying to get me to not use ‘missing e’ could have been put to better use asking me to pay a small fee ($$) for a better user experience within tumblr itself.
there are several other ways you missed making some solid dough on a tumblr fan such as myself, but i think the point is made.
you left money on the table with me. i hope you don’t do that with yahoo, or whomever you may sell to.
tumblr is a neat place. you did something really great in creating this software. however, we did something great in being the community that used it. you made tumblr worth something, and we’ve made it worth more.
good luck and thanks again.
respectfully,
notentirely
Doctor Who Series 7 (2012-2013)
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May 19, 2005 - May 19, 2013
8th Anniversary of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Goddaughter was born the day this movie was released. I got a text about her birth when I was sitting in the theater…this is the only reason I remember the date as it pertains to the movie.
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I HAD NO IDEA THE BATMOBILE HAD A BACK SEAT!
Li’l Gotham #7
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a little ramble about the Name of the Doctor, specifically the identity of John Hurt’s character. obviously contains spoilers.
Doctor Who characters as associated with the twelve common character archetypes, discovered via this post
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First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize.
But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:
WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED
- David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
- Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power.
- Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
- They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.
WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP
- If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
- If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
- If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
- If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
- If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
- If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.
ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE
- Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
- Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.
Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.
- Hank
