
(05-13-2015, 10:43 AM)TheLastCandle Wrote: The way I see it, the RPC and Tumblr are on pretty equal footing. The main difference between the two is the former has moderators, who can (and let's be honest, frequently do have to) close threads that devolve into various sorts of jerky and/or otherwise negative behavior. -shrug- Choose your poison, filtered or no.
That's a pretty large difference, though. If someone here is a dick and they get shiny green numbers for it, they can still be smacked down in public by an authority figure for being a dick.
That doesn't happen in this hypothetical on Tumblr, it's just an echo chamber. I'd argue that the circlejerking there is far worse than anything similar here, if only because there's no giant list of
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on and on and on. It just perpetuates, with no louder voice to go NO SERIOUSLY, SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT A HORRIBLE PERSON YOU ARE. There's plenty of fine people and cool dino porn on tumblr, but there's also a colossal amount of unwarranted self-importance who feel the need to help police the community.