rebeccalando: This is the stupidest thing. Here’s $1 to let me shout obnoxiously and ineffectively at people! No one likes to be shouted at. That’s the obnoxious part. And it’s not like these tags do anything other than clutter the margins of the Dashboard. But what’s really so, so dumb about these - so dumb it’s funny in a sad, pathetic way - is that they only work on the Dashboard. They don’t work on the actual blogs. So you’re paying $1 for someone to, what, give your post an extra 1 second glance? Maybe click ‘like’ or ‘reblog’? But only on the Dashboard. Not on your URL, not in an RSS feed. Only on Tumblr, for other Tumblr users. And there’s no correlating monetary gain for your $1 when someone clicks “like” on your post on their Dashboard. So basically, you’re giving Tumblr $1 to help promote Tumblr. Not you. Tumblr. Not to mention the fact that the more successful and the more used it is, the less useful it becomes. It stops highlighting, and just becomes a bad, cluttered UI.
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This is the stupidest thing. Here’s $1 to let me shout obnoxiously and ineffectively at people! No one likes to be shouted at. That’s the obnoxious part. And it’s not like these tags do anything other than clutter the margins of the Dashboard.

But what’s really so, so dumb about these - so dumb it’s funny in a sad, pathetic way - is that they only work on the Dashboard. They don’t work on the actual blogs. So you’re paying $1 for someone to, what, give your post an extra 1 second glance? Maybe click ‘like’ or ‘reblog’? But only on the Dashboard. Not on your URL, not in an RSS feed. Only on Tumblr, for other Tumblr users. And there’s no correlating monetary gain for your $1 when someone clicks “like” on your post on their Dashboard. So basically, you’re giving Tumblr $1 to help promote Tumblr. Not you. Tumblr.

Not to mention the fact that the more successful and the more used it is, the less useful it becomes. It stops highlighting, and just becomes a bad, cluttered UI.

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  1. fembotz reblogged this from notexactly
  2. notexactly reblogged this from roguebicycles
  3. daisymay said: AGREED! I follow people cause I like them, yes I don’t always read there posts but why are they spending a dollar to tell me OH WAIT, BUT THIS ONE’S IMPORTANT. Just do what normal people do: reblog yourself, twitter and facebook the hell out of it!!!
  4. dnlfn said: did you REALLY just tag this “greed!?” Oh come off it!
  5. spytap reblogged this from rebeccalando and added:
    more successful and...more used it is,...less useful it...
  6. theboyinquestion reblogged this from roguebicycles
  7. roguebicycles reblogged this from rebeccalando and added:
    rebecca spits truth.
  8. adriennes said: Sounds like a good deal for Tumblr! I bet people will pay for this, no problem.
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