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It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-yahoo-from-buying-tu...

Disclosure: I work for iPetitions.

I like how reactionary that is, much like when people expected Instagram to suddenly gain pokes and sidebar ads when Facebook bought them. It may as well say 'WE DON'T LIKE CHANGE'.

Kinda reminds me when Kraft was about to acquire Cadbury there were thousands (Ok not literally but there was quite a bit of noise) of facebook groups saying that this shouldn't happen because "the chocolate will taste like dairylea cheese" as if Toblerone wasn't a thing that Kraft made.

It's funny how when there's news of a company acquiring another people think straight away that it'll change drastically and overnight, making the huge assumption that the company is A) going to change anything B) doesn't know that changing something will break trust with users making their billion dollar purchase useless.

Or maybe Yahoo will change things on tumblr who knows? I'd like Yahoo to add a feature to change your primary blog on tumblr. That would be nice to have..

> It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea:

To be more precise, they don't like this:

"Stop Yahoo! from buying Tumblr!! If this happens, the entire interface will be changed, and millions of users will delete their accounts - me being one of them. Please, please, please sign this to stop this!!"

... which isn't the same as Yahoo buying Tumblr. They don't want Yahoo to negatively change Tumblr (there's a difference).

Whatever their reason is, I don't get why I just got downvoted. I was just a messenger who shows that petition exists.

If I had to guess, it'd be because someone thought you were just commenting to promote your employer.

How do you quantify "a lot"? A number larger than zero, or even in the thousands, does not necessarily make that a large share or a majority of users.

You might want to fix the counter so it handles petitions with responses numbering over 1 million..

Tnx. It was fixed in new branch. Deployed to current one.

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