mrforrest: People complaining about sponsored posts are infuriating because 1) I guarantee they…
Monday, September 23rd, 2013People complaining about sponsored posts are infuriating because
1) I guarantee they scroll right past vapid bullshit on their dash all the time
2) They don’t understand that running a website, especially one as large, complex, and data intensive as Tumblr, costs an actual shitload of money per day, and the only way to fund that is either a) charge users, b) sell ads/sponsored posts, c) finding angel/venture capital which pretty much requires option b to happen at some point down the road.Now, I get that Yahoo! bought up tumblr, but they were gonna get bought at some point, welcome to the internet ya twats. That’s how social media sites have and always will work.
I don’t complain about sponsored posts per se, for the reasons you outline, among others. But you’re wrong about Tumblr’s implementation of sponsored posts. Their inclusion of shocking gore as part of horror movie ads, inline in users’ dashboards with no means to opt out (at least on the mobile platform, though I can use Tumblr Savior on the desktop, thankfully), is a violation of Tumblr’s own community guidelines. More about that here.
It’s true that there’s a lot of inanity in my dash. But there isn’t any gore, or wouldn’t be if Tumblr didn’t force me to see it against my will as a condition of using the site. I don’t think Tumblr has the right to do that. If they can’t stay in business without doing that, they don’t deserve to stay in business.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/62069327679.
