I’m inclined to agree with Marco that these auto-generated lists are useless (I don’t care what music you’ve been listening to the most lately; if I did, I could go to Last.fm myself!). But this is double useless.
Jesus, chalk up another mark under ‘Reasons to leave Tumblr’.
Not everyone uses Tumblr to feed other people’s dashboards - they use it to create their own blog, which anyone can read. They are free to add what they want. I can only imagine the hardship and distress some people must feel when they have to scroll past a post on their dashboard (from someone whose content they have chosen to subscribe to) that they don’t want to read.
Reblogging
This is my major concern with Tumblr - its purpose isn’t clearly-defined. Is it a blog-host or is it a community? I know it’s both, and I kind of like that, but people have issues either way. And I’m not sure I enjoy not really being sure how to use it.
I’m seriously considering moving away from Tumblr as a host and maybe moving back to Wordpress, or some other service. I’ll still stay a member of the Tumblr community for sure, but using it more like a read-only forum/community/inspiration.
I think I’d prefer to have more control over my blog (if Tumblr’s down, I’ve got nothing), like how Cameron did a few weeks ago. That and the fact that I’d rather a few friends saw something for the first time than some people I don’t really know get pissed off because they just had to see a thumbnail of something they’ve seen a few times already.
I honestly do love Tumblr but, for my purposes, I’m not sure if I can burn both ends of the rope for much longer.
Reblogging is one of the best Tumblr features, but it is overused. I feel like half of my feed is reblogs, most of which are from people I’m already following. Starting today, anyone whose posts are comprised of more than 50% reblogs will lose my followship. OMG, REBLOG THIS MESSAGE!!!11
