tumbledore: This is in response to me being libeled by a Tumblr employee, whose only response to this blunder is to straight up lie about the actions they took: “as per our policy, we emailed this account’s address to inquire about the dormant account. After you failed to respond for 72 hours, we released the domain.” I received no such communication from Tumblr before having my subdomain stolen. I had to reach out to them, and was greeted with a flippant emoticon. What I find fascinating is that Pitchfork’s Ryan and Tumblr’s own Marc and Meaghan all have conflicting stories on how this actually went down. So, was it five posts or no posts? Ten minutes or seventy-two hours? Whatever. It’s not even the fact that Tumblr released an inactive (what defines inactive in the TOS, anyway?) account to a trademark holder. It’s the fact that the most eloquent, respectful response came from Pitchfork themselves, who, in my opinion, did nothing wrong. I love the Tumblr platform and greatly admire the staff (some of whom I call friends), but their glib responses come off as total bullshit and completely disrespectful to the people that make up the community. I don’t read Pitchfork, I don’t follow tumbledore, and I admittedly don’t know exactly what went down—I’m just personally disappointed by the blatant lies and the lack of maturity and accountability in the “official” responses.

tumbledore:

This is in response to me being libeled by a Tumblr employee, whose only response to this blunder is to straight up lie about the actions they took: “as per our policy, we emailed this account’s address to inquire about the dormant account. After you failed to respond for 72 hours, we released the domain.” I received no such communication from Tumblr before having my subdomain stolen. I had to reach out to them, and was greeted with a flippant emoticon.

What I find fascinating is that Pitchfork’s Ryan and Tumblr’s own Marc and Meaghan all have conflicting stories on how this actually went down.

So, was it five posts or no posts? Ten minutes or seventy-two hours? Whatever. It’s not even the fact that Tumblr released an inactive (what defines inactive in the TOS, anyway?) account to a trademark holder. It’s the fact that the most eloquent, respectful response came from Pitchfork themselves, who, in my opinion, did nothing wrong.

I love the Tumblr platform and greatly admire the staff (some of whom I call friends), but their glib responses come off as total bullshit and completely disrespectful to the people that make up the community. I don’t read Pitchfork, I don’t follow tumbledore, and I admittedly don’t know exactly what went down—I’m just personally disappointed by the blatant lies and the lack of maturity and accountability in the “official” responses.

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