{"id":117083,"date":"2016-01-24T03:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T03:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/24\/staff-lets-talk\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T03:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T03:49:11","slug":"staff-lets-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/24\/staff-lets-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff, let\u2019s talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tsuki-chibi.tumblr.com\/post\/137917934145\" target=\"_blank\">tsuki-chibi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/random-nexus.tumblr.com\/post\/137912071736\" target=\"_blank\">random-nexus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/suricattus.tumblr.com\/post\/137885871443\" target=\"_blank\">suricattus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/runawaymarbles.tumblr.com\/post\/137768168882\" target=\"_blank\">runawaymarbles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bjornwilde.tumblr.com\/post\/137765710926\" target=\"_blank\">bjornwilde<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lilyvonpseudonym.tumblr.com\/post\/137765255111\" target=\"_blank\">lilyvonpseudonym<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/keyofjetwolf.tumblr.com\/post\/137760856532\" target=\"_blank\">keyofjetwolf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/docholligay.tumblr.com\/post\/137759095115\" target=\"_blank\">docholligay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tumblr, I have an idea. You\u2019re desperate to monetize this<br \/>\nsite. I get that. Running websites costs money, I know how the world works. <\/p>\n<p>I am desperate for you to create a website I can use<br \/>\neffectively. <\/p>\n<p>I was on livejournal back in the day, and they had a thing<br \/>\ncalled \u201cpaid accounts.\u201d The free account was always free, but the paid accounts<br \/>\nhad special benefits. <\/p>\n<p>If you offered paid accounts, I would buy one. I would give<br \/>\nthem away for giveaways. I would give them to my friends as gifts. I had a paid<br \/>\naccount back in my LJ days! <\/p>\n<p> I think 25-30 dollars<br \/>\na year is fair for the amount of entertainment I get off this site, considering<br \/>\nthat tumblr, inc, does not make the content but serves as a vessel. That works<br \/>\nout to 2.50 a month at the high end, which is more money than you are making<br \/>\noff me currently because I use an ad blocker because we are at war. (Previous<br \/>\nto you taking replies away, I actually didn\u2019t! Because again, I understand how<br \/>\ncosts and money work) But also low enough that I think you\u2019d be surprised how<br \/>\nmany takers you\u2019d get. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s stop fucking with each other and just turn this into a<br \/>\nmonetary exchange. I\u2019m tired of the horseshit. You need money, I need a fucking<br \/>\nuseable fandom website. Leave free tumblr accounts as they are, I don\u2019t care.<br \/>\nBut here\u2019s what I want in a paid account. <\/p>\n<p>NECESSARY:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want replies back. No \u2018we\u2019ll get around to it\u2019 no \u2018replies<br \/>\nare coming.\u2019 I want them back the day you run my Paypal. You have the code, don\u2019t<br \/>\neven tell me you can\u2019t turn it on for a particular blog, because you did the<br \/>\nexact thing with messaging.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I want to be able to upload videos direct to tumblr that are<br \/>\nlonger than 6 damn seconds. Give me some storage space.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Custom themes or some bullshit, I don\u2019t actually care about<br \/>\nthis but other people might<\/li>\n<li>No ads for paid users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would LIKE: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To create a button where I can decide to make a post<br \/>\nrebloggable or not when I create it.<\/li>\n<li>To have a quick dropdown when I ask a question so I can ask<br \/>\nit from a sideblog.<\/li>\n<li>Fanmail back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I am not a great fool, and realize there will be GREAT<br \/>\nHUE AND CRY if you try to establish this. I don\u2019t care. And you shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\neither. First of all, there\u2019s great hue and cry every time you do literally<br \/>\nanything. Secondly, the people who will complain the loudest are very likely<br \/>\nalready using an adblocker, because we are on the internet and savvy to it, and<br \/>\nyou are not making money on them anyhow. <\/p>\n<p>And please don\u2019t insult me, tumblr, by telling me it\u2019s about<br \/>\n\u2018the love of the site\u2019 or some crap. The changes you\u2019ve implemented are<br \/>\ndesigned to make this more of a look-reblog-move on site where things go viral<br \/>\nand advertising can easily be slipped in, versus a conversational place. But I am<br \/>\ntelling you, \u2018I will give you money to stop fucking with me\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Let me give you money. And stop fucking with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mr_BTLFg8QzTPUMVSbe3vbg\" target=\"_blank\">@staff<\/a>. Cash for services. We\u2019ll both be happy.<\/p>\n<p>In the optimistic event that someone actually takes a look, here\u2019s my list.<\/p>\n<p>As a paying user I would NEED:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replies back. Actual replies. At minimum, exactly like they were. I would happily accept them larger though, say the size of a question reply box or an Ask.<\/li>\n<li>A Tumblr-side blacklist tied to my account that filters on the server end so the content I don\u2019t want to see never hits my dash. That blacklist filters on mobile as well.<\/li>\n<li>Better communication about things happening on the development side. By which I mean any communication at all.<\/li>\n<li>No ads for paid users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a paying user I would LIKE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An increase in post limits.<\/li>\n<li>Post-level control over what is or isn\u2019t rebloggable.<\/li>\n<li>Some quality of life improvements offered by Xkit (like say tag bundles), if only because there\u2019s no reason they don\u2019t already exist I mean come on.<\/li>\n<li>An easy way to export\/back-up posts. JUST IN CASE SOMETHING MAY HAPPEN TO SOMEONE\u2019S BLOG AT SOME POINT PERHAPS I DUNNO.<\/li>\n<li>A way to organize the Ask Box, my god, please.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m not hard to please, I\u2019m really not. You want money, I want to stay here. I fail to believe there\u2019s not some way to make both our dreams come true.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with all of the above, and would gladly pay for a membership if these features were available to users. Please start just asking for our money instead of sabotaging the social media aspects of your social media network to try and sell my content to advertisers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019d like:<\/p>\n<p>A return to the tag system. I know they want us to get away from it, but I want to see more of a certain tag than what they filter into my feed and on my terms, when I wish it.<\/p>\n<p>A better anti-spam watch. Seriously, some tags are just flooded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can get paid templates, but yes to the rest of this. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen. \u00a0I\u2019d rather be a paying user than a commodity, Tumblr. \u00a0Let us give you a reasonable chunk of cash, and you deliver a useful product. \u00a0Everyone wins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OMFG YES!  Yes, these are reasonable requests and a logical concept. C\u2019mon, @staff!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would like to see a way to organize the Likes page. But I would totally pay for a tumblr account <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mr_BTLFg8QzTPUMVSbe3vbg\" target=\"_blank\">@staff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tsuki-chibi: random-nexus: suricattus: runawaymarbles: bjornwilde: lilyvonpseudonym: keyofjetwolf: docholligay: Tumblr, I have an idea. You\u2019re desperate to monetize this site. I get that. Running websites costs money, I know how the world works. I am desperate for you to create a website I can use effectively. I was on livejournal back in the day, and they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/24\/staff-lets-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Staff, let\u2019s talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14167,7632,654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}