I see the light!
Jan. 8th, 2019 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupAfter a bunch of convos with various people in the comment threads of the Reblogs, redux and explaining tumblr reblogs post, I've realized 2 really big things:
1) When I say "reblog", I'm referring to the motivation behind hitting the reblog button on tumblr, which is "sharing other people's content that you're excited about", which on DW, usually results in a link and a blurb. To reblog is to share and to hype. BUT, when everyone else reads the word "reblog", they think "oh, that thing where the entirety of my post is replicated on someone else's blog" and then they squint and say "isn't that reposting? my words are mine, dammit!"
2) Apparently DW commenting norms are very different from what I thought! I'm used to either having a one-on-one conversation with a creator on AO3, or having a conversation with mutuals on my personal DW, where I know everyone. But apparently: For public posts, you can jump into existing comment threads between strangers the way you can reblog and add onto someone else's stuff.
For me, reblogging is the equivalent of going to my friends and saying "hey, check out this cool thing I found!", whereas jumping onto strangers' comment thread is the equivalent of butting into a group's conversation at a party, but APPARENTLY THAT'S OKAY?!! Whereas if I'm like "hey, check out this cool thing I found" and I include a bit of the actual thing, I might have the creator of the cool thing body-slamming me to the ground???
WOWZERS, THAT'S DIFFERENT.
On tumblr, it's totally okay to reblog and add onto some stranger's stuff and share it with your followers as long as you have proper linkage and attribution.
On DW, it's totally okay to jump into a conversation with a bunch of strangers and then link your followers to that conversation, as long as everything has the right privacy settings.
:O!!!!
1) When I say "reblog", I'm referring to the motivation behind hitting the reblog button on tumblr, which is "sharing other people's content that you're excited about", which on DW, usually results in a link and a blurb. To reblog is to share and to hype. BUT, when everyone else reads the word "reblog", they think "oh, that thing where the entirety of my post is replicated on someone else's blog" and then they squint and say "isn't that reposting? my words are mine, dammit!"
2) Apparently DW commenting norms are very different from what I thought! I'm used to either having a one-on-one conversation with a creator on AO3, or having a conversation with mutuals on my personal DW, where I know everyone. But apparently: For public posts, you can jump into existing comment threads between strangers the way you can reblog and add onto someone else's stuff.
For me, reblogging is the equivalent of going to my friends and saying "hey, check out this cool thing I found!", whereas jumping onto strangers' comment thread is the equivalent of butting into a group's conversation at a party, but APPARENTLY THAT'S OKAY?!! Whereas if I'm like "hey, check out this cool thing I found" and I include a bit of the actual thing, I might have the creator of the cool thing body-slamming me to the ground???
WOWZERS, THAT'S DIFFERENT.
On tumblr, it's totally okay to reblog and add onto some stranger's stuff and share it with your followers as long as you have proper linkage and attribution.
On DW, it's totally okay to jump into a conversation with a bunch of strangers and then link your followers to that conversation, as long as everything has the right privacy settings.
:O!!!!
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Date: 2019-01-09 03:53 am (UTC)Then we can reblog, ie link to, the comment threads and marvel at the wonder of conversational evolution :D
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Date: 2019-01-09 04:28 am (UTC)Yeah. I feel like this has been a good conversation that has clarified some of the commenting and linking norms for me. And it was an ... 75% invigorating and 25% stressful experience for me.