2. I guess ideally I'd like to just call it "sharing", since I'm trying to say "sharing a link", "commenting and sharing a link to the comment thread", "sharing a link with a quote snippet", and the thing you mentioned in #4, "reposting your comment to someone else' post". I can't exactly call it "sharing", since that would lead the DW-newbies to click that "Share" button at the bottom of every page. And when tumblrites come, their question is "how do I rebog", not "how do I link" (which is a question about html, not social conventions)
And really, I just want to say "slammed the reblog button" to someone's post as a way to show appreciation. "shared a link here" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. It's frustrating that repost and reblog is so conflated here, but hey, this may just happen to be a hill I choose to die on. XD;;;; (or I give in in a week, who knows?)
4. So you're telling me that there is a DW social norm that anyone can comment on and jump into any other comment thread in public posts??? Like, I tend to treat comment threads here like I do on AO3, where they tend to be one-on-one conversations between me and the creator. It feels so wrong to me to just go reading other people's comments of posts. It feels super intrusive, like eavesdropping on other people's conversations. But apparently that's not the case??? I'd love to see an example of that "in the wild", as it were.
My activity page on tumblr was actually pretty much unusable, because the same posts get reblogged and added to. ::shrug:: My most popular post as 80k notes and I made it 3 years ago, so basically activity on that post trumps anything else that I've made. And I've definitely made posts on tumblr that people have done additions to that I'm not so pleased about. So if that were to happen in the comments of my post, I'd feel obligated to respond, somehow? Unless the social norm is that I *don't* need to respond to comments in my own post????
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And really, I just want to say "slammed the reblog button" to someone's post as a way to show appreciation. "shared a link here" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. It's frustrating that repost and reblog is so conflated here, but hey, this may just happen to be a hill I choose to die on. XD;;;; (or I give in in a week, who knows?)
4. So you're telling me that there is a DW social norm that anyone can comment on and jump into any other comment thread in public posts??? Like, I tend to treat comment threads here like I do on AO3, where they tend to be one-on-one conversations between me and the creator. It feels so wrong to me to just go reading other people's comments of posts. It feels super intrusive, like eavesdropping on other people's conversations. But apparently that's not the case??? I'd love to see an example of that "in the wild", as it were.
My activity page on tumblr was actually pretty much unusable, because the same posts get reblogged and added to. ::shrug:: My most popular post as 80k notes and I made it 3 years ago, so basically activity on that post trumps anything else that I've made. And I've definitely made posts on tumblr that people have done additions to that I'm not so pleased about. So if that were to happen in the comments of my post, I'd feel obligated to respond, somehow? Unless the social norm is that I *don't* need to respond to comments in my own post????