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	seiberwing 2014-07-18 03:06 am UTC (link)
	A lot of them are trolls or bullies using SJ as a front to make people do what they want. See also Riley/smallblackangel/shitwhitepplsay and their cult of personality that ran off a 16 year old with rape and death threats. They know they can use it to motivate people as long as they use the right buzzwords. So yes, but without the paycheck. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

adevyish
2014-07-18 08:38 am UTC (link)

A large fandom I'm in ran a popular fanartist off Tumblr last month because having top/bottom preference in her ship meant she's homophobic, apparently. It's pretty common to get anon hate in this fandom but the sheer volume she was getting was awful. Then after she came back a couple weeks later, someone immediately started circulating another hate post about her.

It reminds me a bit of when Aja could run people off fandom (I'm still bitter over that one time with Hikaru no Go). But back then you had to be a BNF to make it take off, whereas now anyone can start a hatepost and it just needs to get picked up by a BNF blog and suddenly five thousand people all hate your guts. I live in fear of having one of my posts get big because the last couple of times, getting big = hate mail.

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rosehiptea
2014-07-18 01:53 pm UTC (link)

One of the problems with tumblr, or at least hateful people on tumblr, is that they don't seem to ever let go of anything. I mean eventually it's time to say "You know, I still don't like ___ but I'm going to go hang out with other people who don't like it and stop bothering this one particular person." But no one on tumblr seems to know how to do that. It's like beating a dead horse is a major sport.

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	seiberwing 2014-07-18 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	It's partially because of how these things circulate. Even after an incident's cooled down, the post will still have legs and will reach more and more people who feel that they need to go rage about it without bothering to see what's actually going on back at the source. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sepiamagpie
2014-07-18 02:46 pm UTC (link)

A perfect non-anger example of how tumblr gets shit wrong is this post by a user called Yamino, of her golden satin mice. It says in the original post that they're her mice. Almost every new text added to the post is how they're definitely rats and how the people calling them mice are wrong because reasons.

She's reblogged the post multiple times to go 'they're mice. I know they're mice. They're my mice. I bred them' and if you look at it now, most of the text you'll see in the reblogs is about them being rats.

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	seiberwing 2014-07-18 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	Every so often I go on a culling of people on my dash who mindlessly reblog things of rage and "calling out". I don't think they even give it more than the time that it takes to hit the reblog button, or have the anger that the post presents. They see the right words and just push it along. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2014-07-18 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'm pretty leery that I might end up doing that (the mindless part), so my tumblrs are either on a strict theme (videogames, book discussion, cute/funny animal stuff) or my main one is just pretty things. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2014-07-18 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	I make a personal policy not to respond to anything that starts "why is no one talking about" or accuses tumblr of not caring about something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	agent_hyatt 2014-07-18 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	Sometimes I like responding to "why is no one talking about" posts with links to people talking about it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

rosehiptea
2014-07-19 12:46 am UTC (link)

I have been guilty of mindlessly reblogging things in the past. Part of it was because I'd think to myself "Well, X reblogged it and X is a cool and smart person so it must be true and relevant!" But I really try to rein myself in these days. Especially when I realized that people will cheerfully reblog news from parody sites as truth if it targets someone or something they don't like.

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	seiberwing 2014-07-20 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	A good caution sign is if it's something that the original poster wants people to be really angry about. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2014-07-21 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, and as was said in another thread I've learned to watch out for "No one is talking about this!" Usually someone is talking about it. (I've seen people say that about issues I've seen as Yahoo News headlines.) Or occasionally they're not talking about it because it's not true. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bobafeis 2014-07-22 07:31 am UTC (link)
	I just went and googled "golden satin mice" and now I've spent far too long looking at pictures of adorableness. SO ADORABLE. Who needs the ability to stick to the topic at hand when there are adorable pictures of tiny animals? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2014-07-21 12:54 am UTC (link)
	I ended up leaving scans_daily, some years back, when I expressed concern that the new mod policies might lead to this sort of thing and was labeled a concern troll. "When has that ever happened? Let's see your evidence!" I suppose I could provide some now, but I just don't care anymore. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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