Side notes, not related to any side of the discussion:
1) Tumblr's password-protect option seems very much like a matter of "meh, you and your five friends can use this for your cooking club if you want," not like LJ/DW community setups. Tumblr's screwball dashboard and endless stream of NEW STUFF SHINY ALL THE TIME means locked things don't work well as a normal part of the tumblr social venue.
2) Yahoo owns tumblr; they bought it a couple of years ago. Much drama and fretting at the time about whether they were going to lock down all the NSFW content. So far, they haven't, but they have been increasing the amount of advertising and doing other "tweaks" to the user experience without regard to user communities or preferences.
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1) Tumblr's password-protect option seems very much like a matter of "meh, you and your five friends can use this for your cooking club if you want," not like LJ/DW community setups. Tumblr's screwball dashboard and endless stream of NEW STUFF SHINY ALL THE TIME means locked things don't work well as a normal part of the tumblr social venue.
2) Yahoo owns tumblr; they bought it a couple of years ago. Much drama and fretting at the time about whether they were going to lock down all the NSFW content. So far, they haven't, but they have been increasing the amount of advertising and doing other "tweaks" to the user experience without regard to user communities or preferences.