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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.

So please, I beg you, if you really are taking this feedback seriously, rollback this update. I have never left a reblog comment on a post and thought ‘the notes stemming from this reblog are mine’ because they *aren’t* mine. I don’t want them to be mine. The aggregate notes have been a fundamental piece of this platform for years and it’s what every single community relies on to thrive and enjoy this site.

If you insist on changing reblogs and are looking for constructive criticism, then I strongly suggest making the feature opt-in instead of forcing this awful change onto everyone. Maybe have it be a sorting toggle when looking at reblogs ‘only show reblogs on this chain’ or in the notifications ‘allow chained post notifications’ or in the settings ‘show aggregate notes only’/‘show chain notes’

[ID: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart of Kim Dokja and Biyoo. Kim Dokja lifts Biyoo in human form, holding her on his hip. They're both laughing and leaning into each other. He is labeled "Докча" ("Dokcha" - Dokja) and Biyoo is labeled "Дочка" ("Dochka" - Daughter). The drawing is in plain black lineart. /end ID]

my silly dokja and yjh used car salesman AU (for @jdlogbook ...!)

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Uriel drains all of eden's coins😔

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