"Reblog as link"

[yvannairie]

Since there was that kerfluffle with thisweekmeta, I've been thinking a lot about the benefits of sharing stuff as a link -- about how it limits spread, but also limits wank and dogpiling because each linked instance has a shorter reach, and also how a lot of the problems on Tumblr were because people could add to posts and dramatically change their meaning in the process, and it reminded me that once, Tumblr also had that feature

and people hated it.

Comments

[wolffyluna]

Yeah, those posts truncated things weirdly, and you often didn't have a lot of control over where, so you ended up having to forensically find the middle chunk of posts.