My tumblarity is 87

(via dascola)

[snipping some very funny anti-tumbularity rhetoric]

ps - no joke, the next time I looked at my Tumblarity it was 1001, then 1002, then 858. I’ve dated women who made more sense tha—OW STOP HITTING ME

Haha! TJs post is funny to me because just the other day I sent TJ - the Tumblr API fount of knowledge - an email about my idea for a Tumbularity tracker. TJ I’M SO SORRY!!

I think it’s because I’m new and I came to Tumblr with zero instant friends — Tumbularity is not a mystery to me. It has been very predictable. It took me a long time to get my Tumbularity up to even 30, so I was able to observe it the whole time and see what happened when I got ONE heart, and then a few days later got another.

The basic formula is simple. You get 3 points per post if you add just one character to it. You get one point for every heart that shows up in your stream. Reblogs are worth nothing on their own. New friends are worth (I think) 3 points.

But the kicker is that these drop off exactly one week later. If you post something and your Tumbularity instantly drops 30 points, it means that exactly one week earlier you must have posted something that got you 30 hearts in quick succession.

I only WISH I had that problem. I have less than a dozen actively hearty followers. My Tumbularity swings by 1 point at a time. But I can see how if you came here as a popular Twitterer with a following, you were instantly seeing huge Tumbularity swings.

So to possibly save a lot of grief over what seems to be a really simple calculation, please reblog. This ridiculousness needs to be demystified already.