Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-26190399-20160417160411/@comment-10733658-20160420184831

Disclaimer: Above comment about in-fighting is a reference to last year's fierce drama, which resulted in this very article having comments locked. I think the majority of people are worn out from how heated things have gotten before, and hopefully regardless of what happens as the story progresses.....people will keep their cool.

I know I for one don't want to see awful things said about Ishida, or about other fans. And I don't want to see the level of stress, frustration, and just plain ugliness that has come out of people before. People on both sides of the debate have done wrong, and acted in really shitty ways towards others.

But Midori is correct in that Tumblr isn't a hive mind. 4chan isn't one either, and neither is Reddit or any other place where people collect together. No website is, regardless of the tendency to kind of lump people in and assign stereotypes. But in reality, people over there have divided opinions and attitudes just as much as anywhere else. I mean, I've had my fair share of hate mail from both sides of the argument from people over there. I've repeatedly had to state that messaging me to change this or that is pointless, because there is a distinct line between Here and There. I don't do things because people on Tumblr ask me to do it. I actually ended up having to put a warning into my profile at the top of my page stating that I would not accept Wiki-related messages outside of the Wiki.

The biggest connection between here and Tumblr is the fantastic help some of the folks over there offer. Makyun and others that put out translations every week. People that have scanned material they owned and donated the images to the Wiki. People that offer information about literary, artistic, and cultural references that might be easily missed. There are a lot of fantastic, devoted fans over there that have done a lot to help us out, so it kind of bothers me to see a Strawman argument about "tumblr users". Individual a-holes that may have tumblrs, yes. But it's really unnecessary to boil any sites with hundreds or even thousands of users down to a single, negative stereotype.