Honestly?

The site I started with friends over at Paperkeg just crossed 7,000 followers.

Huzzah!

I know that 7,000 followers does not mean that 7,000 people will be willing to interact with you in any fashion. I mean, just look at the top Twitter users. When they post a photo to TwitPic, click on the photo to see how many views it has. Often, it does not correlate at all with how many followers they have. (That visible disconnect is solved now with Twitter using their own photo upload service.)

Even if you throw up some amazing post, it’s very rare that it would be Reblogged and then posted in that dopey Comics tag area and underneath Batman & Robin making out and then becoming popular.

However, you would think that something WOULD get Liked, or even Reblogged by at least a small fraction of that number, right?

We get many new followers a day on that page, and most accounts have some awful hyphenation in their name and just look plain fake.

When we do get reblogged, it’s more often than not a Tumblr page that has Reblogged 50 other posts in about 30 minutes. Is that Spam? Is it a 15 year old girl that we can still consider spam in the grand scheme of things?

I often read posts where Tumblr throws out stats about just how active their users are. Well, who gives a shit how active they are if it’s just one reblog circle-jerk of possible Spam accounts?

Wouldn’t that create the same inflated statistics?