#non-go

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Michael Sheen being chaotic on The Great British Bake Off

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Does anybody else think the Addams Family remembers the year Jack Skellington took over as the best Christmas EVER

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Loving the Sandman miniseries so far!  But I’ve already spotted one plot hole.  I’ll put it in the comments so as not to spoil anyone.

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Mercury is so far in retrograde, it’s up its own ass.

That’s it that’s the post

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Re. Recent AO3 harrassment:

If anybody responsible for the gross emails being sent to AO3 volunteers is reading this:

Unfollow me, if applicable, and then die in a fire.

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Look, if someone is such a hopeless crapsack of a human being that the only worthwhile thing they’ve ever done in their life is a single uncharacteristically decent and thoughtful post on tumblr dot com, then you’d better believe I will reblog that post.

I won’t follow them or spread their other, shittier opinions around.  I won’t reward them for vomiting their bile all over the internet.

But that one post may be the only compensation the Universe ever gets for the insult of that asshat’s existence, and the only chance the rest of us will ever get to impress upon them that ‘Yes, this is good, this is the kind of stuff we want to see, MORE OF THIS PLEASE!’  It might also contain good information or insights that could be helpful to others who need it.

Why wouldn’t I want to help give that post the most notes the OP has ever gotten on anything?

If no one reblogs it on the grounds that the author is a jackass, then anyone who might have found it valuable will miss out.  Perhaps more importantly, all the OP will ever see on their Activity page is a bunch of their fellow jackasses reblogging their usual brain barf, and they’ll conclude that that’s the kind of content people are looking for and double down on the douchery.

If your argument is ‘But people might see that post and follow that jerk without realizing they’re a terrible person!’ then I gotta ask: how is it reasonable to expect people to check out a blog before they reblog anything from it, but not before they follow it?  And won’t anyone who does hit ‘Follow’ without doing their homework notice pretty quickly that there’s suddenly garbage all over their dash, and fix their mistake?  If they don’t notice, they’ve got much bigger problems than accidentally following a bad blog.

tl;dr: Don’t punish the behavior you want to see.  Punish the bullshit.  Reward the good stuff to encourage more of the same.