[ SECRET POST #3297 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3297 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 030 secrets from Secret Submission Post #471.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[tabaqui]

So what you're saying is....you want every post on Tumblr to be original, no reblogs of anything at all, ever?

So people who don't do art or make .gifs will basically...never get to post anything at all?

I'm very confused, here.

[(Anonymous)]

If they have nothing beneficial to post, silence is golden.

[(Anonymous)]

Ahahaahhaaaaaa

Beneficial? Tumblr? Tumblr is 99% for wasting time and shrieking and squeeing and scrolling endlessly through things that hold your attention for maybe ten seconds. It's hardly an academic journal or something, pffft!

[(Anonymous)]

And entertainment isn't beneficial?

[tabaqui]

HA.
Oh, well, guess you'll have to live with the noise.
*goes to Tumblr and reblogs fun and pretty and sentimental things 4ever*

[(Anonymous)]

I guess we should shut down the internet, then.

[(Anonymous)]

Rebloging and reposting are not the same thing.

[tabaqui]

......okay?
Explain the difference.

[badass_tiger]

Reblogging from original source = giving original source credit, showing the artist you appreciate their work by increasing the number of notes

Reposting = claiming someone else's work as your own, taking notes and credit away from the original source, it's basically stealing.

[tabaqui]

Really? I've always thought the two words were basically interchangeable, since they both mean the same thing in the abstract.

*Do* a lot of people claiming unsourced stuff as their own? My experience has mostly been - 'this is cool, i'm going to hit the 'reblog' button!' And then I get frustrated because there's no source link. Maybe on Tumblrs with more fanart? I don't know.

Thanks for the explanation. :)

[badass_tiger]

Nope, they're pretty different things. There are entire blogs out there that do nothing but repost other people's works without sourcing it and they're a huge source of grief for artists who actually want to be acknowledged for the work they do. If there's no source and the person who originally posted it isn't the artist, then they've reposted it. It doesn't just happen to artists either, gifsets and graphics get stolen a lot too.

[tabaqui]

Meh. I don't repost something (reblog? Whatever) on Tumblr unless there's a source, and i've even used tineye and hunted a source down, in the past. I *like* knowing who made an artwork - they might have made more!

[(Anonymous)]

The way tumblr is set up, it encourages reposting above all else. I had no idea of the difference between reposting and reblogging when I started, but reposting is a lot easier, so that's what I did.

Then you get all these angry posts about the evils of reposting. As a newbie, it's really confusing since you don't even know what that is. Both reblogging and reposting look exactly the same - the art is posted on your blog.

Reposting is much easier nine times out of ten. If you go on DA there's even a little button on the corner which you can click and it immediately reposts the art onto your tumblr. Compare that to reblogging, which can nearly be impossible, because artists rarely give a tumblr link for reblogging for each piece of art.

Yet tumblr gets a free pass for this behavior, and the reposters are blamed, when they're only doing what the site is encouraging them to do.

[(Anonymous)]

Really...?

By rebloging you just take the original post and put it in your blog. The original poster is marked as such so there's no confusion over the source and something that had 100 reblogs, all of them using the same tag, doesn't show up 100 on the tags.

By reposting you create a new post which will show up on the tags and the source is just an extra (that many people forget or get it wrong).

And there's the main can of worms fact that most people repost stuff while ignoring the wishes of the authors (I have even seen people reposting stuff they could reblog since the author already posted it on tumblr) which is rather iffy.

[tabaqui]

Yes...?

Posting and blogging just don't mean that, to me. A 'blog' is a space where someone will put up 'my adventures in renovating my kitchen!' or 'my trip across the US'. Kind of self-indulgent meta wherein someone maybe navelgazes a bit and talks about life.

Posting is just...posting. You repost something pretty on Tumblr, you make a post for LJ/DW/Pinterest/whatever. Source/no source never even entered into it. Now, i *do* think that people stripping the source from a post is lame and stupid, and I don't like that, but i never used a different *word* for it.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Reblogging passes on the original post, so it keeps its attribution - if you reblog something I've posted, it's still credited to me, and someone looking for more of the same can follow the chain back to find more of my work.

Reposting something starts a new chain, with you as the originator, so it divorces the content from the person who actually generated it. It's not bad if you credit the content, but a lot of people don't bother to.

[tabaqui]

Thanks. I've never considered the words with the extra definition of 'has source'/'does not have source' - the idea of using those words to differentiate that has never once crossed my mind.

[(Anonymous)]

You talk as if before tumblr almost no one posted any original content on their own blog/LJ/whatever and so there were many poor, poor fans who could never participate in fandom.

[tabaqui]

You talk as if you want to pick a fight.
A *lot* of fans only read fic, or comment on art, or comment on meta. A lot of fans *don't* actually make original content, except to say 'I loved so and so episode!' or 'Omg, did you read this post/tweet/article?!! (link here)'

And there's nothing at all wrong with that. Just like there's nothing wrong with reposting/reblogging/whatever the fuck you want to call it posts on Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you really arguing that copying stuff, most of the time without bothering to give credit, is a good thing? Really?

[tabaqui]

And where did i say that?