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Another thing that annoys me about how posts work on Tumblr… When someone clicks ‘Like’ on a post that was reblogged, it is never made clear what version of the post they liked. The original? The first reblog with someone disagreeing? The third version with someone agreeing with the original version and adding something to it? The different reblog that adds a comment to the original but wasn’t reblogged form a chain of reblogs that was already passed around? It’s one of the reasons why I never Like a reblogged post with an added comment that differs from the original post, even if I agree with the added content. For example, let’s say someone posts a racist article out there and someone else reblogs it and mentions why racism and that original article are wrong. I might agree with the non-racist reblogger, but if I Like that post, it could look like I actually Liked the original, racist-only version of the post to someone who hasn’t noticed the reblog I actually agreed with. The only solution seems to be simply reblogging such a post thread with the edit you most agree with as the most recent addition, with perhaps your own added to it. But if you just want to Like it, it becomes pointless.

Before you reblog and/or like a reblogged post, you might want to take a look at the original post. You might be surprised to find it’s not the same thing the latest person presented you with. In Tumblr, it is painfully easy for someone else to edit your stuff and then people take for granted that the edited version was what you had to say on the matter.

O.k, I don’t want to sound like I’m attacking anyone, because even some people who have blogs I enjoy do it, but… Is it really necessary to add the word “THIS!” to something you reblogged? Isn’t it already assumed you agree with it if you reblogged it? I’m just so tired of the repetition I see when I browse my dashboard… “THIS!”, “My feels!”, “You guys, you don’t understand!” “There are no words!” and countless GIFs I’ve seen a thousand times already… It’s a repetition that’s beginning to annoy me and it feels like a droplet of water that keeps falling on my head on the same exact spot for hours and hours, non-stop. If you don’t have any specific things to add to something, why not simply reblog it as is? Does it really look better if you’re the third or seventh person to add “THIS!” to the post? I don’t think it does. And do repetitive overused GIFs really add something of value to what you’re reblogging, or are they just diluting the original post? And if there truly are no words, then don’t add a comment. Or expand your vocabulary. You don’t have to agree with me, but at least please consider it. Oh and to whoever was thinking of reblogging this quote while adding one of the overused comments I mentioned and/or a GIF… Go ahead if it’ll make you giggle, but don’t think for a moment it’s an original idea! :p

Reblogging in Tumblr and why I think it needs changes!

Twice now today, people have reblogged some stuff I posted in the past just for the pictures that were in it and removed all the text I’d included. One had a picture of Marie-Claude Bourbonnais as Hornet and the other was a page from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics with a comment from me. I own none of these images…

If you’re going to reblog one of my posts and remove the text (and therefore the context) from the post completely just for an image I don’t even own, I honestly prefer it if you simply grab the pic and post it yourself from your blog. Seriously, I do. It’s not like I owned any of those two images so if you just wanted those without any of my input you can go ahead and save them to your computer and then upload them from there!

If the picture however is one of me, one I took, that someone took for me or that I own in any way, then yes please reblog even if you decide to remove what I wrote. (Which I’d rather not in the first place, by the way. Add your own opinions if you want but please leave the original content of my post alone.)

While I’m sure these people today meant no harm, it does remind me of that insulting blogger who grabbed the post where I linked Welshy’s critique of the Rose character from ‘Doctor Who’ and then reblogged it to complain about it without even leaving the original link in there. Yeah, make sure people can’t actually see what you were complaining about, they could (gasp!) form their own opinion about it instead of just seeing your point of view! But I digress.

This is one thing I really dislike about Tumblr, how people can grab your posts and reblog them completely out of context.

There should be some available options in Tumblr every time you post something:

1. Let people reblog and edit your post however they see fit.

2. Let people reblog your post and add their own things to it but without being able to remove or change the original content.

3. Let people reblog your post but they can’t edit it in any way.