Phosphor [&]

What especially bothers me is like....... how easily drama spirals outward, until it's consumed the rest of the site and Everyone is talking about it and being on edge and eventually it just becomes like, the Norm. Especially because a lot of those types Live on drama! It's just encouraging them! What happened to don't feed the trolls!!

And like. Admittedly, I understand this - I Enjoy Complaining About People Complaining, and after all, I was spiteful enough about the whole thing to make this post! And I think a fair bit of that behavior is intrinsically enabled by the site structure itself - reblog replies can enable some fun memes but hoo boy do they also make it easy for drama to spread like wildfire.

But I do think there's still something to be said for recognizing impulses to do things that'll feed into the drama or at the very least not make things better, and if you can't totally stop those impulses, redirecting them where you can. (I was not kidding about the donation part! I already have ten dollars queued up to send on the 30th.)