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soc_puppet) wrote2022-11-01 12:49 pm
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Speaking of things I don't want to bring up on Tumblr...
Is there a way to turn off my ability to "like" posts? Or can I petition New Xkit to make one or something? I mean. I can't imagine Tumblr itself turning off the ability ever, or it going well if they did (especially since a lot of people apparently use it as a sort of "storage" or marking ability), but I just.
I keep seeing posts that tell me that "liking" is effectively useless, with the implied (or sometimes even stated) "and you should feel bad for doing it, especially if you don't also reblog". And I would like to stop feeling frustrated and put-down by those posts. The problem is, as long as "liking" is an option for me, I'm not going to stop doing it! I'm going to see the "like" button and want to communicate to OP or the person who put the post on my dash that I liked that post, or what they had to say about it.
Tumblr turning off the "like" feature seems like a non-starter, as stated above. And getting people to stop making those posts is a losing battle if I ever saw one. If I can turn off the ability to "like" posts from my end, I will at least be able to ignore those posts, on the basis that they no longer apply to me. I wouldn't "like" instead of reblogging, because I wouldn't be able to "like" posts at all!
It's not completely ruining my enjoyment of Tumblryet, but the guilt trips certainly aren't making it more fun.
Edit: Taking some advice and unfollowing the person I see most of that from. This should have the added benefit of halving the number of new posts I see on my dash after work or when I get up on days off, allowing me more free brain time! I'll definitely miss some of their posts and reblogs, but not enough to put up with both regular "not-reblogging" shaming and the sheer volume of material on my dash.
I keep seeing posts that tell me that "liking" is effectively useless, with the implied (or sometimes even stated) "and you should feel bad for doing it, especially if you don't also reblog". And I would like to stop feeling frustrated and put-down by those posts. The problem is, as long as "liking" is an option for me, I'm not going to stop doing it! I'm going to see the "like" button and want to communicate to OP or the person who put the post on my dash that I liked that post, or what they had to say about it.
Tumblr turning off the "like" feature seems like a non-starter, as stated above. And getting people to stop making those posts is a losing battle if I ever saw one. If I can turn off the ability to "like" posts from my end, I will at least be able to ignore those posts, on the basis that they no longer apply to me. I wouldn't "like" instead of reblogging, because I wouldn't be able to "like" posts at all!
It's not completely ruining my enjoyment of Tumblr
Edit: Taking some advice and unfollowing the person I see most of that from. This should have the added benefit of halving the number of new posts I see on my dash after work or when I get up on days off, allowing me more free brain time! I'll definitely miss some of their posts and reblogs, but not enough to put up with both regular "not-reblogging" shaming and the sheer volume of material on my dash.
This is one I feel strongly about, lol
Guilt trips are almost never motivating. The likes vs. reblogs discourse is one example. Another is the perpetual "why is no one talking about [serious subject], I expect all my followers to reblog this or else". Like... hah, what a great post about this topic. I would absolutely have loved to reblog it, but that guilt trip has instead just made me block you.
(I don't so much mind the posts that are more geared toward "hey, if you're new to tumblr, you should know that reblogging is absolutely the norm, and doesn't take attention away from the OP - the opposite, actually! It's the best way of sharing things and getting more people to see it across the site!", but the ones that are really shame-y about "likes are WORTHLESS, if you can't reblog EVERYTHING then you're a bad person and you don't care about artists/writers/etc." are awful.)
Both liking and reblogging are functions of the site FOR A REASON. I DO understand that artists/writers/creators of all kinds want their work to spread. I get it! And as a general trend, I'm sure it's discouraging to see a lot of people who like something, but don't want to share it. Bummer!
Quite honestly... I follow hundreds of blogs on tumblr. A lot of them are single-topic blogs that share a lot of content for A Thing I Like. I follow ones for birds, ones for bugs, ones for frogs, ones for Halloween aesthetics... I enjoy almost all the things they post, and I will happily "like" just about every single one. But I DON'T have a blog devoted to those topics, at least not entirely, and I don't want my blog to be hundreds of posts of all of those things. My blog isn't a carefully-curated thing by any stretch, but I have no desire to reblog hundreds of posts a day just because I saw them. I DO share a lot of art and writing, but I share the ones that I WANT to share, not the ones someone tried to guilt me into sharing.
I really have no patience for fandom bullies or entitlement, and like-shaming is both of those things.
I mean, samesies
But yeah, I am now also super glad I didn't bring this up on Tumblr. I thought about it seriously for a bit, but wow, that would've gotten ugly in a hurry.
Re: I mean, samesies
It's a shame when there's content you genuinely enjoy from someone, but they also unload with really frustrating/negative/etc. stuff. I'm a big fan of curating your own experience, and I've had to unfollow people I otherwise liked for similar reasons.