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⌈ Secret Post #2202 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry, early today!

Also: I'm not going to officially warn for tongue-in-cheek "triggers" just to provide anyone with a fandom-specific in-joke when there are none in the secret.

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I'm mostly of the same mind re:things I've made. I generally don't get annoyed about comments on stuff I've made unless it's character/ship bashing or people trying to start wank or generally being jerks. Or unrelated conversations between two or three people, but that's mostly because those tend to be rapid fire and then it's like a bajillion notifications on my dash clogging things up. And you're right, in that it is really nice to see that people like stuff without having to click on their reblog to read their tags. It would actually be nice if there were a way (aside from the askbox) for people to give creators direct feedback or comments, but Tumblr's not really set up for that and the like/reblog system is set up to be a proxy for that. It just gets a bit hairy since, unlike comments you leave on an LJ post or a fic somewhere, when you comment directly on what's being made it goes to everyone and not just the creator, and while some people find it interesting, some people get annoyed with it. One of those things about Tumblr that's an upside and a downside, really.

I have seen some people who get seriously bent out of shape over people commenting with anything on their gifsets/art/whatever, though. I think there are some people who've either seen that or been on the receiving end of that who'd just rather play it safe than risk bringing down the Wrath of the Creator upon them (or the Wrath of People Who Follow Them and Think Comments are an Affront to All That Is Sacred, since some people will bitch out people that reblog and add lengthy comments, too).

I'll admit that it does get a annoying when someone reblogs something on my dash and it has a suuuuuper long string of comments on a gif set or piece of art I otherwise find interesting, but I have the same issue with super long text posts. I find it's a lot easier to scroll past tags than those. Also, if you want to reblog said post for the gifs but don't care about other people's commentary, with tags you just hit clear all and bob's your uncle, but if they've commented on the actual post you have to click on the original version of the post or a version that's sans comments and reblog that. Or, granted, you can just delete the commentary, but I've seen people get pissy and yell at people because that is ~omg rude~ as well.

A lot of the "etiquette" rules around Tumblr seem to be centered around a) not clogging up people's dashes and b) keeping the site relatively quick to use. Most of time, too, they're stuff that's not really that big a deal and a personal preference, but the majority personal preference generally wins out and becomes the unspoken "rule". And I cannot believe I am giving Tumblr commenting etiquette this much thought. What the hell is my life, lol.

You're a braver person than me, because Tumblr etiquette confounds me to this very day. :P I think Tumblr's an excellent way to share things, and I really like it for the sheer amount of content, but it's awful for feedback and conversation. On LJ or DW, you make something, and people comment saying they like it or whatever. On Tumblr, you make something, and people reblog it, and some people add comments and some people reblog that, but some people see it in a different way and add different comments which also get reblogged, and it's a confusing mess.

The difference between Tumblr and LJ's commenting system is kind of like, Tumblr doesn't really acknowledge the creators as much? It's difficult to explain, but on LJ all the comments are directed to the creator. Whereas on Tumblr, since people reblogging everything are putting this on their own personal blog, the comments they make are directed at their friends/followers. eg on LJ comments someone will say "You're a great artist, I enjoyed this" and on Tumblr someone will say "LOOK GUYS I FOUND THIS AWESOME PIECE OF ART it reminds me of a headcanon I have" and so on. It's kind of a subtle differences, and I find it hard to explain. :/ Sorry if it's confusing!

But I think that's why some people get annoyed with comments in reblogs, even though I don't really get it myself. I've never seen anyone get pissed off about that, but I can definitely imagine it. Tumblr is weird sometimes.

The perfect fandom system would be a mix between Tumblr and LJ and A03/ff.net (say what you will about the quality of the fics, it's really easy to find things on it). A chimerical site with the best of all these features and with none of the drawbacks would be amazing - alas, I lack the imagination to figure out how that will work.

I heartily agree that ff.net shouldn't be overlooked in designing this hypothetical site. I started out there, and while the quality elsewhere is mostly better, there have been so many times I wished that every single fic on, say, lj was part of the same *searchable sortable database with neat little dropdown boxes so you can find exactly what you want*.

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