Don't Do That.

The main reason I don’t allow comments is that I want to inspire debate. I think people do their best writing when they’re forced to defend their ideas on their own turf. It’s one thing to leave a comment on someone else’s blog, but quite another to put your argument in front of your own readers. It forces a level of consideration that, without fail, results in a higher quality exchange of ideas.

Alex Payne

This is exactly the rationale behind using reblogs as a means of debate and discussion.

(via marco)

I agree with this in theory, but aesthetically you cannot have a ongoing debate on tumblr without having a huge mess on your page. It would be nice to have some option for collapsable threads like gmail or perhaps something more elegant to allow for one person to have multiple replies in the same thread without it looking horrible design-wise on their page.

(via soupsoup)

Well, the original post is exactly the opposite of what we recommended.

Soupsoup’s right in that it’s not aesthetic to have reblog fights, but unfortunately he misses the part where no one else cares and wishes the two involved would kind of be quiet. Email each other, compatriots. It’s the only way to internet fight without being annoying.

(When we say internet fight, we mean three or more reblogs of one another. Some discussion, of course, is necessary. It is when the reblogs are happening every dashboard page that it becomes, well, obnoxious.)