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Articles Worth Reading
Humanized Tumbling - My guide on how a few browser enhancements can make your tumbling experience a lot faster, easier, and more enjoyable.How This Site Works - A quick explanation about my content selection process, and why I'll probably delete most of this site's content at some point.
Mixed Feelings About Like - Is tumblr's Like feature useful? Helpful? Does it make the community more interactive? Somehow I don't think so.
Cock From A Reader... - A rant about porno-tumblrs getting lazy and expecting their users to supply them with content.
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Mixed Feelings About Like
Pros:
Let’s you show appreciation for something without publishing it to your own site, giving non-niche viewers a chance to interact with the author instead of just lurking.
Cons:
1. Like reeks of either anti-commitment or cowardice. “I like this, but I don’t want everyone to KNOW I do.”
2. Likes can’t be blocked or filtered out of the newsfeed.
3. Like weakens the meme pool, perpetuating mediocre content. Before something was either good enough to pass on or it wasn’t, but Like introduces a “Kinda OK” rating which increases the chance of even mediocre memes being encouraged.
4. Like turns tumblr into an empty ratings game. Because Like is not a mutually-giving engagement (like Reblog), it functions like a rating. What’s next, a 5-star system? Karma? But unlike most ratings systems, Like isn’t even public. Only the author can see it. Which brings me to my final and most important point.
5. Like can be exploited as a self-promotion spam tool. By Liking something, your name/link is guarenteed to be seen by the author, prompting many to kindly click over to your site to check out the your content. Basically, Like can be used to draw more inter-tumblr traffic to your site without giving anything in return.
Sidenote: When I first saw the Like icon, I thought it was some kind of mashup with WeHeartIt. Poor choice guys.
Suggestions to users:
Click the Heart for everything in your newsfeed, even if you don’t like it. A link to your site will be displayed each time you click. Don’t be too obvious about it. Only Like 2 or 3 items per day for each user in your feed. You’ll probably get more traffic.
Suggestions to Tumblr staff:
1. Seperate dashboard page for viewing a chronological list of Likes from others.
2. Separate dashboard page for viewing stuff I’ve Liked.
3. Template tags for publishing {NumberOfLikes} or {LikedByWho} on both a per-post and site-total scale.
4. Ability to assign categories to followed users, and filter the news feed with those categories.
5. Option to filter out or disable viewing of Likes (and heck, Reblogs too).