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cimorenefandom meta discussions on mastodon by tozka (crossposts from their mastodon evidently). A lot of discussion happening in the comments on the decline of community activity on dw, the nature of dw communities, and tumblr culture vs dw culture (and older eras of fandom culture) mores.
Reblogs, redux bypotofsoup is in response to a post on the community for new DW-user refugees for Tumblr in which dendriteblues taught non-html-knowing people how to use html tables to fake reblogs within their DW posts (that is, to create indents, basically), which apparently got controversial because the original post has a bunch of frozen comments. I mean, it's obvious to me both why people would want to do this and why people would be upset about it - ymmv (although why THAT particular html??? TABLES OH GOD NO!!) - so what interests me more is potofsoup's attempt to dissect the issue and offer alternatives. In particular, I'm still reeling a bit in bemusement that she's actually explaining the entire notion of threaded comments and what they are.
The above post, in turn, sparkedmuccamuk's Tumblr Meets DW, which gained a chuckle of sympathy from me wrt the html code and then got heated (and then cooled down, as evidenced by a series of ETAs).
And THAT post causedpotofsoup to make a longer post to clarify, essentially, what reblogging on Tumblr is and how it works. She explains (for the benefit of non-Tumblrites who were getting twitchy about other people wanting to copy-paste their content without permission) that it's not the same as reposting and that the motivation is signal-boosting, encouragement, or continuing the conversation. On the other hand, she also clings to using the term "reblog" to signify whatever form of link-posting (or signal-boosting) she intends to use on DW to take the place of the Tumblr reblog. And that is no doubt why I already saw a post on my reading list of confusion about the distinction between reblog/repost and it linked back to that post as context.
tozka (crossposts from their mastodon evidently). A lot of discussion happening in the comments on the decline of community activity on dw, the nature of dw communities, and tumblr culture vs dw culture (and older eras of fandom culture) mores. Reblogs, redux by
potofsoup is in response to a post on the community for new DW-user refugees for Tumblr in which dendriteblues taught non-html-knowing people how to use html tables to fake reblogs within their DW posts (that is, to create indents, basically), which apparently got controversial because the original post has a bunch of frozen comments. I mean, it's obvious to me both why people would want to do this and why people would be upset about it - ymmv (although why THAT particular html??? TABLES OH GOD NO!!) - so what interests me more is potofsoup's attempt to dissect the issue and offer alternatives. In particular, I'm still reeling a bit in bemusement that she's actually explaining the entire notion of threaded comments and what they are. The above post, in turn, sparked
muccamuk's Tumblr Meets DW, which gained a chuckle of sympathy from me wrt the html code and then got heated (and then cooled down, as evidenced by a series of ETAs). And THAT post caused
potofsoup to make a longer post to clarify, essentially, what reblogging on Tumblr is and how it works. She explains (for the benefit of non-Tumblrites who were getting twitchy about other people wanting to copy-paste their content without permission) that it's not the same as reposting and that the motivation is signal-boosting, encouragement, or continuing the conversation. On the other hand, she also clings to using the term "reblog" to signify whatever form of link-posting (or signal-boosting) she intends to use on DW to take the place of the Tumblr reblog. And that is no doubt why I already saw a post on my reading list of confusion about the distinction between reblog/repost and it linked back to that post as context.
