[ SECRET POST #5224 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5224 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm split on the whole "deleting a post deletes reblogs" thing. Well, no, I'm against it despite seeing it's appeal.

On the one hand, it would feel amazing to be in control of your own content in that way. But otoh, it would basically gut the functionality of tumblr, and cause mass chaos. The way things are, tumblr is basically two main things: a social website and a scrapbooking website. If deleting a post were to simultaneously delete the reblogs, tumblr would no longer be a viable scrapbooking website. Every post you like and would like to be able to come back to would then have to be saved in duplicate to some other location. Which would be a real pain in the butt, even if someone made an app to streamline the process the same way there's an app to streamline the process of making Pinterest pins. And because of the way the internet works, in all likelihood the website that was invented to give people a place to save tumblr posts to would not be a private accounts website—it would be public, the way Pinterest is. So then you'd have hundreds of "reposts" of every tumblr post, due to all the people saving tumblr posts they liked on some third-party website, just in case the person who made the original post decided to burn everything down.

Plus, what would happen to reblog-chain posts? If the person who made the first post in the reblog chain deleted their post, what would happen to all the successive reblog-posts in the chain?

I get the appeal, I truly do. But IMO, in actual practice it would be pure chaos.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[meadowphoenix]

I want to say I'm actually ok with chaos. As it exists now, you can edit posts and have reblogs of the pre-edited posts. Considering any social function, that's already chaos. But, I would be okay with [post deleted] in the place of content for any reblogs, which preserved reblogged replies. There are just a ton of issues with even suggesting people have any kind of ownership over pictures they did not take (which for scrapbooking purposes is in fact the issue) that, yeah...I would choose chaos.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not about ownership. Nobody is suggesting that reblogging something gives you ownership over it. This is about the fact that people want to be able to preserve and revisit things on the internet they like, and if you don't give people a way to revisit those things they like in the location you've uploaded them to, people will copy your content to another location in order to preserve it. They will do that and nothing you do will stop them from doing it.

As long as people have the reassurance that the stuff they like isn't going to disappear over night, most of them will be content to reblog your original post (which most content creators want). But if you deny people that reassurance, they will take it upon themselves to store a copy of your content somewhere else. Who owns it or has the right to do what with it is irrelevant. I mean, if you want to amuse yourself with thinking about the ethics that's your choice, but it's irrelevant to the practical issue of what people will do.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[meadowphoenix]

lmao they DON'T have that assurance, tho, "you have no control over how we make or break content" is how social media operates, to a one, especially one like tumblr that has changed a million private corp hands. there's no reason not to believe that people aren't ALREADY doing this because of how easy it is to "lose" stuff even on tumblr and how difficult search and tags are. And storing on other sites, which are equally likely to change how content is hosted won't solve that! Hard drives will, but even in the early days of internet hosting that wasn't popular. So chaos is fine!

This isn't ethics btw, i'm talking law.