Signal Boost: SignalBoost bookmarklet

astolat posted: SignalBoost bookmarklet

Okay, here is the little bookmarklet -- it's pretty limited, but it serves my own laziness, so I share it FWIW and if anyone has the time and wants to upgrade it, go for it and drop me a comment and I'll (ha ha) signal boost any new versions!

I used the bookmarklet to generate the above link, so it's also a preview of what it does: Prints the OP's username, makes the post's title into a bold link, and then puts anything you've highlighted into a blockquote underneath.

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This is essentially - in visual form and [clipped quotation+link+OP id] content - what the Tumblr-refugee poster was aiming to do that caused a mild miscommunication and some disagreements (in the links I posted the other day).

That short series of misunderstandings topically highlights an obvious caveat about signal-boosting (or SignalBoosting - using the bookmarklet, that is. SBing?): private content shouldn't be shared, and some people wouldn't like their posts being quoted without permission regardless of content/security. But honestly, the practice (of posting links with summary blurbs) and these questions aren't really new to dreamwidth anyway; this is just a useful little tool to streamline the process of signal boosting posts from elsewhere on the site (and it has much more in common with a Link Post on Tumblr than a reblog).

Signal Boost: Also: random thoughts about Tumblr

cesperanza posted: Also: random thoughts about Tumblr

What I miss about Tumblr - and what really worked for me at this stage of my life, and why I still go there - was that I felt that it let me send up a little flag a couple times a day: hi, I'm here! Not dead! Busy but thinking about you guys and Bucky and Steve in between washing the dishes and grading this here homework! . But I could do it by reblogging something fandom-relevant.

#relatable