The bigger fear is that this will turn off non-power users. Does a casual Tumblr user want to be reminded every time they log in with a big fat "Tumblarity: 5" they they are a big stupid idiot whom no one likes and maybe why don't they quit if they are going suck so bad? Probably not, and I can't imagine that user will want to come back. Now Tumblr has lost the zero advertising revenue that user generates!

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Gawker is pretty accurate on this. Building a money-making business on the mercurial asset of ‘popularity’ is like building a house on a fault-line.

But I’m still posting this so Tumblr still wins for the moment. Hey, free webhosting is free webhosting.

UPDATE: Reblog this to increase your tumblarity.

I agree completely.  People will claim that it’s not a popularity contest, but I have noticed in the last couple of days that a couple of people that I follow who are “power tumblrs” have increased the number of shallow posts.  Listen — if I follow you, it’s because I enjoy what you’ve already posted / your style.  Don’t change your style to become Homecoming Tumblr.  Your once hilarious or thoughtful posts will soon get an unfollow, and you will be banished to eat your lunch in the bathroom stall all alone. Nah, maybe not — my tumblarity proves that you don’t care about what I say, because I sit with the art freaks in the cafeteria.