fundamental to my philosophy about using this site is the idea that Posting Does Not Matter. there are two angles to this. first, bad posts usually don't matter, which is the main thing to keep in perspective when mad at anyone's posts here. even if they're truly evil etc the real-world harm bad takes posted here in themselves can cause is vanishingly small because people here are not Public Online Personalities, we are all some rando yelling on the corner of a street, harmful ideas are propagated by other sources by an overwhelming margin and instances of them in random people's posts on an irrelevant website is more of a symptom rather than source of the problem. the main concrete real-world harm that can be caused here is doxxing and harassment, you have to be genuinely insane to try to ruin people's life (eg out queer people to their family employers etc) over posts. the other angle is that posting is not activism and basically you're not going to do anything by writing posts (the good things you can do by writing posts mainly fall into the categories of 1. raising awareness for specific initiatives, people and organizations trying to collect donations for some cause, etc. 2. helping yourself and a couple of other people you're talking to elucidate your ideas and learn to better express them. the extent to which this is possible on tumblr is extremely doubtful because people crash out when anyone disagrees with them on literally anything as they are unfamiliar with "real life" where in fact most people don't agree on everything) and people have no moral obligation to try to do activism by posts. most problems here come from people thinking posts are important
