cdevroe.com » ranking http://cdevroe.com by Colin Devroe Thu, 24 May 2012 15:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Tumblarity is gone. Thanks Tumblr. http://cdevroe.com/notes/tumblarity-gone/ http://cdevroe.com/notes/tumblarity-gone/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:05 +0000 Colin Devroe http://cdevroe.com/?p=3683 Last August I complained about Tumblarity and I wasn’t alone. Many people didn’t like how Tumblarity motivated the Tumblr community to post and repost drivel and I’m very happy to see that the Tumblr team has, as far as I can tell from my desk, decided to do away with it. But I also said this about how Tumblarity could still be of use to Tumblr:

“If it was a hidden ranking system then people wouldn’t be driven to do things only to increase their rank and it could still be used for valuable things like Tumblr’s directory.”

I don’t know if Tumblr repurposed Tumblarity to help power their new Directory but credit where due I’m glad it isn’t on Tumblr in a way that motivates spamming any more.

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