They had a good idea for monetization which was allowing users to buy advertising space for their own posts. The more you paid, the more users would see your post. Tumblr’s own community ruined this by sending harassing comments and messages to the posts that were advertised with this feature.
Tumblr’s biggest roadblock to monetization isn’t their site structure or ideas, it’s their community.
You’re not wrong. The community does certainly need to lighten the hell up and accept the fact that the company needs to make money somehow.
But I also can’t really blame them, either. They see all these other social media sites choking themselves to death in desperate attempts to milk every last drop of money they can, and naturally they want none of that on Tumblr. Finding a balance between making money and not pissing off the community is important.
They also tried taking advantage of that by enabling pvp through ads. Like making you able to promote other people’s posts or to give them a bazillion checkmarks
They had a good idea for monetization which was allowing users to buy advertising space for their own posts. The more you paid, the more users would see your post. Tumblr’s own community ruined this by sending harassing comments and messages to the posts that were advertised with this feature.
Tumblr’s biggest roadblock to monetization isn’t their site structure or ideas, it’s their community.
You’re not wrong. The community does certainly need to lighten the hell up and accept the fact that the company needs to make money somehow.
But I also can’t really blame them, either. They see all these other social media sites choking themselves to death in desperate attempts to milk every last drop of money they can, and naturally they want none of that on Tumblr. Finding a balance between making money and not pissing off the community is important.
They also tried taking advantage of that by enabling pvp through ads. Like making you able to promote other people’s posts or to give them a bazillion checkmarks
Yeah, I dunno what that guy is on about.
The multicolored infinite checkmarks and Blazing came out almost back to back and both were huge hits with the community.