something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.
Chaotic version of when you gotta train the new person at work and you accidentally relearn all the shit you've been doing wrong
Wait, so am I supposed to do this or not?
Fret not, new neighbour! You are enriching everyone's enclosure by doing it this way, because you are introducing novelty through a non-aggressive but uncommon occurrence! That's very eusocial and agreeable of you, so by all means please continue doing it! The more recent custom is for conversational or commentative interactions to take place in the tags or/and the replies, with reblogs accounting for what might be thought of as "extensions of, or elaborations upon, the topic, to be broadcast to the entire following audience," rather than direct communication intended for the previous poster personally. It has just become mildly countercultural and novel to use reblogs as the site developers clearly intended them (conversation and commentary, rather than topic extensions only). Tumblr tends to delight in waves of social behaviour variation that result from current events, so this variation in how things are done is of anthropological interest to tumblr, ergo "enriching the enclosure." It also makes you more visible as new to the site, and that is a good thing, not a bad thing, because communities here tend to thrill at the opportunity to welcome new people and help them get settled in. TL;DR - You are performing a public service by not rigidly adhering to tumblr's norms for reblogging. Thank you!
I don't know what's happening or how to use this page. Thank you @suspendnodisbelief for setting this up for me. I don't know how to comment on your comment or what reblogging does. Tbh I kinda have to poop.
