oh my god YES. The whole thing makes me want to RANT AT LENGTH. I'm so sorry.
I've been playing around with Pinterest for months now, and at least they seem to understand about the difference between visual media and text. Visual media = prime for stacks/pinboards/whatever. Text? Makes for Very Stupid Looking 'Stacks'.
I'm taking the current quality of stacks with a giant table full of salt. I honestly believe that the majority of people who are using them are newbies, link farmers, and social media ball-lickers. I think that most people capable of creating quality content are too busy wailing and gnashing their teeth over how completely unusable the whole thing is to actually curate any content. But yeah. It's terrible. My favorite part is the INCREDIBLY inappropriate and or ugly pictures they automatically pull in. Everything looks so awful, I'm kind of delighted. /evil
And I'm going to try not to get started on the tech community reaction. It's seriously the worst sort of echo-chamber, corporate marketing speak, blind worship of a dude who had one good idea that one time and made obscene amounts of money off it, and a palpable stench of desperation that they too can make that 'WHATEVER-KILLER' website/product/whatthefuck and also become billionaires over night. PROTIP: You will never achieve that dream by licking the balls of people who have already made the dream come true.
I am so sorry about all the balls. I cannot think of a better description for what is happening. /o\
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I've been playing around with Pinterest for months now, and at least they seem to understand about the difference between visual media and text. Visual media = prime for stacks/pinboards/whatever. Text? Makes for Very Stupid Looking 'Stacks'.
I'm taking the current quality of stacks with a giant table full of salt. I honestly believe that the majority of people who are using them are newbies, link farmers, and social media ball-lickers. I think that most people capable of creating quality content are too busy wailing and gnashing their teeth over how completely unusable the whole thing is to actually curate any content. But yeah. It's terrible. My favorite part is the INCREDIBLY inappropriate and or ugly pictures they automatically pull in. Everything looks so awful, I'm kind of delighted. /evil
And I'm going to try not to get started on the tech community reaction. It's seriously the worst sort of echo-chamber, corporate marketing speak, blind worship of a dude who had one good idea that one time and made obscene amounts of money off it, and a palpable stench of desperation that they too can make that 'WHATEVER-KILLER' website/product/whatthefuck and also become billionaires over night. PROTIP: You will never achieve that dream by licking the balls of people who have already made the dream come true.
I am so sorry about all the balls. I cannot think of a better description for what is happening. /o\