everything in the sky

Can you make it so that when I click Tumblr’s ridiculous ‘I agree to keep using what we dumbly refer to as a hack’ dialog it actually remembers my choice like it should?
Because apparently Tumblr apparently can’t handle that tiny bit of functionality itself.
Also, irony. 

When I’m drunk enough and narcissistic enough (Tuesdays, for example), I like to believe that that, as one of the first few thousand tumblogs to stumble into existence (stumblogs), someone, somewhere, at Tumblr headquarters still regards this microsite with fondness and keeps an eye on it.
This is, of course, not true.
But on the off chance it is, I’d like to make something absolutely clear to the munificent overlords of Tumblr.
If I ever take the time, effort, and emotional output to write a funny, heartfelt, painful post about what it’s like to break up with someone who you have genuine feelings for and some ‘curator’ puts an official ‘LOL’ tag on it - like a comedically large pickle-on-a-toothpick placed carefully on the artisanal shit-sandwich that is human relationships - I will burn this place to the ground.
I will absolutely set aside the time to do whatever the digital equivalent of scrubbing this site out of fucking existence is*.
Just so we’re absolutely clear.




* exporting it to Posterous. 

As G points out, the spam likes are an attempt to game SEO:

When the spammy blog likes the post, the post notes show a “spammer-sac-de-merde likes this” link back to the spammer without rel=nofollow, so they get PageRank from liking tons of posts.

As to how they were finding tumblr posts specifically, you can actually see it turning up in your keywords if you have Google Analytics - the spammers are looking for ‘liked’ posts by searching for typical terms in tumblogs. I’d imagine they’re then just calling a neat JS script to activate the ‘like’ functionality themselves and gain a little SEO jump.
It’s actually a kinda neat hack.

Edit: As G again points out, this isn’t helped by the custom-domain hack:

The problem is also compounded by the fact that you can set a custom domain name in the Customize page and not change the domain’s A-Record to point to Tumblr, making all mentions of the username point to an external website. It’s a clever loophole.

Tumblr, honey, I love you. I do. I’ve been with you since the beginning. Back when you were just a nifty bookmarklet - a neat bit of Javascript that let me scrapbook stuff while telling people it was blogging (which, in terms of excuses to save face, is about as bad as claiming you only masturbate in public parks because otherwise the hair shed from your palms when you whack it sticks to your fabulous throw-cushions).
I remember when you added new post types. I remember when followers weren’t the point of the platform. I remember the live stream of new posts (which I miss). I remember Tumbularity. 
We got through all that. And maybe we’re better for it. 
But you’re busting my balls here. I’ve spent the last 2 hours in a cold-and-flu-drug induced semi-conscious state, just trying to blog something or load something, only to be told I’ve exceeded my Rate Limit. Having spent the previous 10 hours asleep or lying under a pile of blankets coughing, I can assure you I have not, so either you’re lying or there’s a bug in your logic (no other devices are loading my Tumblr or any account on my connection, and if you’re Rate Limiting on IP ranges wide enough to cause this, well, you’re effectively betting against your own popularity.)
HTTP 500’s, CSS / asset loading failures, downtime, and now this?
You’re better than this, Tumblr.
You’ve always been willing to throw features up against the wall to see what sticks. Throw some crazy maintenance / scalability ideas up against the wall sometime soon too.
Because what you’re currently doing isn’t working. And it’s starting to make me miss Wordpress.