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I mean things like knowing when someone wrote something in response to what you said via reblogging and adding to it - I know you can look at a post's notes to see, but unless it's your own post then you're going to get ALL the notes including other random likes and reblogs, so how can you tell when other people responded to YOU specifically? And is there anyway to catch someone reblogging your stuff in general without having to follow them? I ask because apparently I missed a bunch of messages from my friend because they weren't in my inbox, but her reblogging things which I missed because I follow a lot of blogs and I'm only on Tumblr for a few minutes every other day or so. Everyone says interaction on Tumblr is so easy but I'm confused as fuck. I get the asks and fanmail, but if interactions are all reblogs and stuff, how do keep track of that?

I've tried looking this shit up, but I tend to get led back to the basic Tumblr FAQs that never seem to answer this directly whenever I try (or they are from long back, so with the older style dashboards and no help with the new ones), so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something really obvious but I still don't know what. I look at all the Big Fandom Blogs that always seem to be on top of things and can't help but ask, "How do you do that?" Like, even if you're one of those crazy people who spend all fucking day on Tumblr - and I'm pretty sure a lot of these people are NOT due to work and school - don't they need to sleep? How do keep on top of this stuff, OP? Does ANYONE know of any user guides that aren't just Tumblr FAQs copy-pasted but actually explain stuff? All I can do is fucking follow people and skim things but otherwise I miss most of what goes on and now that more and more of my fandom has drained out of all the reasonable sites and basically only exist THERE, I am really starting to lose out on fandom activity in general.

Then again, I feel like I'm missing where my fandom is even after accounting for Tumblr. Everyone seems to have fled the journal sites but not everyone has gone to Tumblr. Where the fuck did they go? (Especially the discussion/meta types!)

OP, ~teach me your ways~.

/confused rant

SO I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE if this will answer your query, but I think to see any reblog replies to you specifically rather than everyone-ever you need to go to your activity...page.....thing and that will show any in relation to you as direct reblogs. At least, that's what I do with my one reblog tumblr.

I think there's also a tag add on for xkit that lets you see EVERYONE'S tags but most people don't tag so it could be easier to find ones in relation to your discussion?

...I kind of feel like an idiot, now.

THANK YOU! :) So helpful. ^_^

Though out of curiosity - don't you see the tags when you click the post? Or what do you mean by "see everyone's tags"?

Edited 2013-10-02 05:34 (UTC)

well for me when i wanna see tags on a post I got to open that post up in a seperate tab...this adds a little button next to reblog/like etc where it will have a popup of all the tags people have put on a post alongside usernames :D useful if you're posting art or something, people are so comment-shy

Ah, thank you! :D

Your inbox is for asks & fanmail, not when somebody reblogs a post you posted or reblogged with a comment specifically to you.

The reblogs can be in your Activity page, but of course, if it's a post you didn't originate but just reblogged, and then somebody else reblogs it, and a different person reblogs it with a comment to you, you won't see it there. Just one of those messed up things why tumblr sucks for good discussions. (Though I still like tumblr.)

Interaction on tumblr is easy, but in different ways. Do you have your replies enabled? I don't follow a lot of people but I do text posts about a particular fandom, so a lot of ppl from that fandom follow me, and I get asks and replies from them - then I can post replies to those asks and replies, and sometimes we'll be shooting fanmail back & forth. So there is definitely interaction, but sometimes you have to initiate it yourself, and not get too hung up on the reblogging aspect. Sometimes I'll see a post and I could reblog, but since I just want to communicate with that person who posted it, I'll shoot them an ask or fanmail instead.

Tumblr does move very very fast, though, so I'd recommend keeping the people you follow to a minimum. And I do spend more time on tumblr than you - I tend to check it in the morning, browse for like an hour, and then in the evening, browse it for 1.5 hours, depending on how much free time I have. And even so, I miss about 60% of what gets posted.

Tumblr is more like your personal scrapbook of pictures, comments, thoughts and opinions than a discussion platform (like message boards) or a blogging service like livejournal, where discussion is pretty easy. So I sympathise with your problem. But I think if you just expect different things out of tumblr, you'll enjoy it more. Browse it for cool things related to your fandom, reblog, make graphics or just post your thoughts as blog posts, if that's more your thing. If others dig it and decide to follow you, cool, if not, you can just keep scrapbooking on your own.

There will be discussions but they won't ever be like on livejournal. In some ways I find discussions on tumblr can be like random people shouting into the void, sometimes alone, with others echoing it (reblogs, likes) and sometimes together (reblogs with disagreeing comments). Sometimes good conversations can emerge from all that despite the platform's limitations but more often than not, that's not the case.

Of course, there are still message boards and stuff out there for different fandoms, even though a lot of cool fandomy types abandoned those years ago. I think the problem is that fandoms used to gather more consistently around the same bonfires, like livejournal, and nowadays people seem to be doing their own thing in these little collectives on tumblr or whatever. I'm sort of a "big name blog" in my own little tumblr circle, but that doesn't mean I'm Cassandra Claire of my fandom - it just means I get reblogged a little bit more than others (my fandom is pretty tiny overall).

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