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My attempts to follow the asexuality vs. LGBT people debate on tumblr have taught me two things.
1) Cis-gendered people whose sexuality includes the preface "hetero" claiming to be queer annoys me.
2) Tumblr is the most unwieldy platform for online discussion in the history of the internet, including the comments sections of the New York Times (I was going to include the New York Post, but any advantages of being better designed for discussion than tumblr is are canceled out by the fact that NYP commenters often make 4chan look like a shining beacon of enlightenment). I eventually had the throw up my hands and give up following the discussion because it was impossible to keep track of who was replying to who when every reply came in the form of a brand new post, links to which appeared at the bottom of each separate post in an indiscriminate hodgepodge which included both replies to the post itself and replies to replies to tangential things posted elsewhere on tumblr that only indirectly referenced the rest of it, none of them arranged in chronological order.
I'm guessing tumblr was designed primarily for picspam, and not for actual blogging, since ever other blogging platform I've seen, no matter how clunky, has had some kind of commenting function.
1) Cis-gendered people whose sexuality includes the preface "hetero" claiming to be queer annoys me.
2) Tumblr is the most unwieldy platform for online discussion in the history of the internet, including the comments sections of the New York Times (I was going to include the New York Post, but any advantages of being better designed for discussion than tumblr is are canceled out by the fact that NYP commenters often make 4chan look like a shining beacon of enlightenment). I eventually had the throw up my hands and give up following the discussion because it was impossible to keep track of who was replying to who when every reply came in the form of a brand new post, links to which appeared at the bottom of each separate post in an indiscriminate hodgepodge which included both replies to the post itself and replies to replies to tangential things posted elsewhere on tumblr that only indirectly referenced the rest of it, none of them arranged in chronological order.
I'm guessing tumblr was designed primarily for picspam, and not for actual blogging, since ever other blogging platform I've seen, no matter how clunky, has had some kind of commenting function.