A goober

the fabled Hlockey had appeared

Weekly Harmony #14, suggested by patron Psychoskull...be gay! Do crime!

https://wheelofnames.com/uh3-8jf

by which I mean management were really close to releasing Posting, but our Sensible Community Director looked at how much work would be involved and how the entire community team would instantly drop dead from stress and said "hey how about we do a little test run first?"

and it was pure chaos. we had very minimal moderation tools while the rest of the staff had free reign to Post, with some given a specific role to fulfil while Posting, like

Lost Elderly Grandmother

Seven People Who Are All One Guy's Sockpuppets

Polite Ultra Right-Wing Troll Who's "Just Asking Questions"

The Real Timothy Chalamet

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. new and original ways to get around the swearing filter. a four-thousand emoji-long skateboard trick. ascii shitposting.

after that uproarious 8-hour slack call it went back to the drawing board, to try to figure out more robust filtering and stronger moderation tools

not that it matters, because four months later it was over for good.

nobody will ever Post on blaseball.com again.

a post can have 500 reblogs, half of them with tags, but unless every single post is being shared directly from the original, the OP is probably going to think that nobody's saying anything

Under the new post model, flagging a thread's root post as non-rebloggable affects only the root post and any reblogs without comments; reblogs with comments which were made before the root post was made non-rebloggable now remain rebloggable, regardless of the root post's settings.

Further, there doesn't seem to be any mechanism at all for flagging a reblog with comments as non-rebloggable, not even by the reblog's own author; the upshot is that any post that's been reblogged with a comment even once effectively cannot be made non-rebloggable at all.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

short list of things you broke

Blocking -> people I have blocked are now on my dash because the broken reblog chains nullifies blocking

Tags -> tags count as "adding something" so even a tag will stop OP from being able to see comments or tags of people who reblog from you, actively discouraging ANY interaction to avoid taking traction from OP

Reblogs -> I mean the point was to break these so congrats I Guess

In-depth conversation threads -> want to discuss a topic in depth with 2 or more people? think again

Leaving nice comments in tags / talking in tags -> literally one of the main things that makes tumblr special. congrats again I Guess

like everything about this is bad. you clearly have no interest in hearing from us, though, since your answer is "we hear you but you just have to get used to it teehee"

i met my wife on this website. i've been here since 2012. i've seen a lot of shit updates. this one takes the cake. it is fundamentally unusable now.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.