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I just added this to a long discussion over on dw news, about the concept of reblogs, and wanted to also save it here.
"I'm a tumblr refugee who loved reblogs there, but am finding i rather like dw without them. There were so many times my dash seemed like endless reblogs of the same things, often without even adding any discussion. Tag blocking helped with some of it but alot of tumblr users don't bother to tag at all.
The issue of reblogged posts suddenly attracting loads of unwanted attention is a serious one. I would FAR rather forego reblogging entirely forever, than hear about ONE more fan being driven off the platform by trolls attacking their art or text.
The workaround of "here's the link to a post some of my subscribers might like" takes minimal effort, and works great."

Current Mood: contemplative

I went back on tumblr after the day off, began to notice the changes. They seem very inconsistent, a few blogs, i have to click through a white screen warning me there may be "sensitive content", whether or not there will actually be explicit stuff there. Then there are individual posts that have been hidden behind the white "sensitive content" thing, and what i am hearing is that they are ALSO hidden for the OP, which makes it very difficult for them to appeal. There was never, and still isn't, a simple way to inspect your blog for flagged posts, and that's even harder now. With no real indication that the number of false positives has gone down significantly. Some folks have posted that "my blog was wrongly marked explicit, here's what to do, it was fixed in minutes" but all the notes are "still waiting days later" and "that link doesn't work" or similar. So my trust in the site is still destroyed. On the up side, finding people here, interesting conversations, fic, etc.