Another thought on Reblogs

[potofsoup]

Not all posts are intended to be reblogged, but if you do have something that you want to spread, like announcing a new comm or something, maybe one thing to do is to create a <textarea> where you put in the code that people can simply copy-paste into their post. They can add/edit the text how they want, but saves on formatting time.

If they want to continue the reblog chain, they can simply paste the reblog snippet a second time and put it inside a <textarea> </textarea>.

Reblog starter text:
<user name="potofsoup"> had <a href="https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/9316.html">an idea</a> about spreading reblogs via [textarea] tags to save time on formatting.

Comments

[pseudonym_loving_magpie]

I've added this to my meme post https://pseudonym-loving-magpie.dreamwidth.org/748.html and I'll see if I can also put the source code here in an outer text area:
<img src="https://i.imgflip.com/2ojavo.jpg" alt='Meme image' /> [Distracted boyfriend meme] Boyfriend: Me with a new social network account Girlfriend: Posting a variety of topics Other woman: Posting about social networks 24/7 #i need more memes here #fake hashtags <hr> Reblog/response starter text: <textarea> <user name="pseudonym-loving-magpie"> <a href="https://pseudonym-loving-magpie.dreamwidth.org/748.html">posted</a> <img src="https://i.imgflip.com/2ojavo.jpg" alt='Meme image' /> [Distracted boyfriend meme] Boyfriend: Me with a new social network account Girlfriend: Posting a variety of topics Other woman: Posting about social networks 24/7 <hr> <user name=""> Put your username in the quotes, and replace this text with your response. Or delete the username tag if you don't add a response.


That almost worked, but you can't see the end tag for the text area at the end. Anyway there should be a textarea end tag at the end.

I made some changes though, so that the reblog could include the whole post (except hash tags) and a response.

[potofsoup]

Yeah, it's the textarea business. Believe me -- I thought a fair bit about this. The best I could figure out is to ask the reblogger to paste the text in twice, once normally, and once inside a textarea

[pseudonym_loving_magpie]

I wonder if you could do something like having a javascript bookmarklet to duplicate selected text and put the extra copy in textarea tags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

I don't have time to look into that much right now though.

[potofsoup]

I think bookmarklets are beyond what I'm willing to do to jury-rig a reblogging experience. Especially since I feel like DW favors the personal touch, so instead of 100 copies of the same image, it's more a place where people "reblog" by sharing links.