kaitziskin:
blaaaaaargh:
So, I know I’m still fairly new to this whole Tumblr thing, and really, really don’t know all the “cool kids,” nor do I care to, but it’s definitely annoying to finally post something that apparently interested a few people, only to have it reblogged by someone as though it were her post, and then reblogged repeatedly from her.
/whine
don’tbe a baby. she reblogged it from you which means you get the credit, ass.
I’m actually with Blaargh on this one.
I posted a similar post (except no one had reblogged me then) about the awkwardness of having someone else’s content on my page when all I want to do is comment on them. I don’t want their post to be my post. I had to bold that sentence because it’s the most important sentence of this whole paragraph.
This is common sense, but I’ll write it anyway: Comment allow people to get replies but still maintain their page as their page. For example, Kaitziskin, I recently reblogged a post of yours about serial rapist couples (haha) because I related to it. I reblogged a story I hope you would, honestly, chuckle at and find some sorta affinity with. And that’s great. That was my intention. But I looked at page yesterday and realized how strange your question my response to your question looked on my page. (All these italics are seriously meant to be heard. I’m stressing them like hell. haha)
The point is: Anyone here ever been on Blogpod, circa 2003-2004 or so (maybe even before, maybe even after)? Anyone here remember that site (it literally vanished off the internet)? Anyway, it was what I thought Tumblr was when I first signed on. A place where you have your own profile (although Tumblr obviously isn’t concerned about profiles, as it shouldn’t be), but more importantly you have your own blog, with our own posts. And when people comment, it shows up in a little box right under your blog. It keeps things traditional and very simple and you know exactly who’s posting to what. Not just Blogpod, but it’s the same with Blogger or any other blog site.
I understand what Tumblr is doing and the design is great and wouldn’t want it changed at all. But a comments tool would be ideal. My page would be my page and my comments will be comments on their own… not.. on my page. But that’s just me.
(in regards to the Blogpod comparison, the comments idea is the only thing that really matters. i’m sure tumblr isn’t concerned with being a community site, in a having a profile/list favorites/add friends kind of way. that doesn’t bother me. i just feel people’s pages should be peoples pages. the best example is this: if i want to read Ryan Adams’ posts, I would check Foggy out. And if I want to see what people have to say in response to his posts, I would check his hypothetical comments section, instead of going to someone elses page and seeing, mixed in with their individual and personal posts, Ryan’s ‘Bomb’ blogs, in the Corso sense of the word.)
the strangest thing is that no one else seems to be bothered by it.
that’s the number one thing i think should be changed.
i’m done though.
![William Eggleston
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
at the Whitney Museum of American Art
on view November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009
One of the most influential photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has defined the history of color photography. This exhibition will be the artist’s first retrospective in the United States and will include both his color and black-and-white photographs as well as Stranded in Canton, the artist’s video work from the early 1970s. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States as well as to the Haus der Kunst in Munich following its New York presentation.
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[Seeing that I’ve never been to an Eggleston exhibit before, I’m excited beyond measure]](http://media.tumblr.com/6UejqWL8ld3gbcy11x4P3xs0_r1_500.jpg)
