[ SECRET POST #2408 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2408 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #344.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's...really not complicated? How did you make friends on LJ? Start a conversation with someone, whether through reblogging and making a comment in the text of the reblog/engaging them (they'll see that someone has reblogged with new text on their dash) or sending them an ask. Do it enough times and they'll probably decide they want to see your responses directly on their dash.

I will never understand how people can 'not get' tumblr. It's not fucking rocket science. And I'm not ~some young hip whippersnapper~ either.

[(Anonymous)]

Please. Tumblr is not intuitive in some ways. Have some patience. I figured it out all out and it got super easy, but not without a week's pure frustration.

[queerwolf]

LJ's user interface, for lack of a better term, is 1000x easier to make friends through than Tumblr. On LJ and DW, you can actually hold convos with people without dealing with tons of reblogs to do it.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS.

[nuri]

on the other hand, I always felt like I was bugging people on LJ/DW. I don't have that problem on tumblr. If we develop a better relationship, we trade emails.

[blackmare]

I feel like I'm spamming the hell out of my few followers on Tumblr, having to keep reblogging to reply. Also, having to re-TAG every reblog now, sucks and is way more work than LJ/DW conversations.

The situation is even worse when I come across fragments of reblogged conversation from someone else, because I often can't figure out who said what, how it started, or where the discussion has gone. It's a puzzle piece floating on an ocean of WHUT.

I have Tumblr and use it some, but I feel utterly adrift and alone there, and there is no sense of clarity or cohesion like there is in discussions here.

[(Anonymous)]

In the right hand corner of the post on your dash there's usually a source: tumblrusername, clicking on it gets you to the original post.

Or alternately you could click on the user names as the blocks go up to backtrack along the conversation. This, admittedly, can't work the other way.

Just hitch yourself to a fandom (I know there are non-fandom blogs but I have no earthly clue how they get along) go through the tag and wander into the blogs that make posts in it. If you like the person's style, follow them. They're under no obligation to follow you back, so don't expect them to or feel weird if they don't.

Reblogging the stuff you find interesting will give whoever is following you (or even the person you're reblogging from) a sense of who you are, and they will probably consider following you.

Once you have a few mutual followers, they'll have other followers who realise that they'll see your username crop in conversations that interest them and who'll follow you as well. And as was the case for the people that you've followed you can take your time as to whether or not you want to follow them.

Alternately, some choose to write up 'Reblog if you post...' posts and list their interests, fandom or otherwise and tag them. Only the first five tags will show up in the public tags so be aware of that and see if you get any bites.

Hope this was helpful to you and good luck.

[dazzledfirestar]

For you.

For me, tumblr was an easier way to reach out. I always felt like the doors were closed on LJ or DW and that people had their clique and that was it.

I'm with the OP on this one but everyone's got different experiences on different sites.

[fingalsanteater]

You have to admit it's different than LJ of DW. Here you can have a conversation directly between two people in an easy to read format. To have a comparable conversation on Tumblr, you'd have to reblog something of theirs, they'd have to reblog that reblog with a response and so on. It's not really more difficult, but it's not online conversation like most people are used to.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not any recognisable conversation and it's bloody irritating and time consuming for no good reason.

[dazzledfirestar]

Actually it is. There are a ton of RP blogs on tumblr having perfectly logical conversations. Regular accounts too. Just because it doesn't make sense to YOU doesn't mean it doesn't work at all for anyone ever.

[(Anonymous)]

There are ways to get around reblogging cycles. If you're really interested in having conversations, there are extensions (like xkit) that can make a reply text post that you then tag with the names of those you want to see it (although the tracked tags allow only the first 5 to show up) and maybe with a general reply tag so people using tumblr savior or other extensions can blacklist the term and do not have to see it on their dash.

I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that if you really want to make it work, it is possible, but you have to have the ability and desire to search out a solution.

[(Anonymous)]

Re-blogging (even with comments) in no way resembles a conversation, and I and many others will never understand people who think it does.

This does not make people stupid, so knock off implying it does, OK?

[(Anonymous)]

Nope.

[(Anonymous)]

Start a conversation with someone, whether through reblogging and making a comment in the text of the reblog/engaging them (they'll see that someone has reblogged with new text on their dash) or sending them an ask.

It's really hilarious to me that you think that this mess is in any way equivalent to what all of us are doing right now.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it. You like or reblog stuff, how do you have a conversation?