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youre so silly i love uou. imagine beung so mad about something on Nonfunctional Website that you make a whole fucking blog. never change <3
the website is nonfunctional enough on its own it doesn't need help from users making it more so
#I actually created this blog to shield my main blog from hatemail bc i saw some people who complained about ''prev tags'' get suicide bait#just for having said ''this is irritating please stop''#this sideblog (whose notifications I thought i had turned off--speaking of Nonfunctional Website)#actually received a handful of “kys” style asks so like. i didn't make a whole fucking blog because I was mad about something#i made a whole fucking blog because people get Big Mad abt being told their way of using the site is irritating
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Honestly I'm so petty with getting prevved that if someone "Haha prev tags"es me, I reblog the post again with my tags, and then delete the post. I'm that fucking spiteful about it.
Which, that brings up that "prev tags" is a serious archival issue. I kinda avoid that issue, since I make sure to preserve the tags, but just because I avoid it doesn't mean it won't get avoided. Like, if you screenshot or copy-paste tags into the body of the post, then it's there. Someone will reblog it, and it will probably spread. The only way to get rid of that is if everyone involved deactivates, which is pretty unlikely for people to do in a short period, and by that point, more people will most likely have reblogged those tags.
But with prev tags... if ONE person in the reblog chain has deactivated or deleted the post, that's it. You cannot access those beloved tags, it's almost impossible to find them. And it's far worse if the person themself has deleted the post with the tags, because then it's just LOST.
Unless, of course, someone screenshotted them, but pfft, who does THAT anymore? Just fuckin prev tags everyone! Nevermind how it's annoying, fucks with people with memory issues (like me, ADHD), has major archival issues, and is just generally a bad thing! Because who like, ACTUALLY interacts with anyone anymore, PFFFT, what are you nuts? If someone at a party says something funny, and you wanna share it, you go up to someone and go "You won't believe what Steve said! Go find Steve to find out what he said!" After all, what else are you gonna do, TELL THEM what Steven said?
like. seriously.
I can't see a single positive to using prev tags. Especially since with the new editor and with mobile, YOU CAN JUST COPY PASTE THE TAGS TO YOUR POST. Like, okay I can understand not wanting to strain yourself too much if, say, you have a disability, but (and take this with a grain of salt, as I'm not physically disabled) I feel like tapping the tags to get them over there, before going "<- prev" wouldn't really be straining? Again, I'm not physically disabled, so take it with a HUGE grain of salt, but. Idk.
I'm not gonna add anything substantial to this one. I do honestly legitimately feel bad for people whose website use is getting fucked over by not being able to use ''prev tags'' and I really dislike the change that resulted in that fucking over, but...
''prev tags'' only works if you can *always* access the specific instance of the post whose tags you're referencing; if that reblog (or the original if that's where the tags are from) gets deleted, then the 'prev tags' becomes just a lost little sign pointing to nothing
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Perhaps we judged you too harshly...
fdsajkhkjdas i hate the new "can't look back in the history of a reblog chain" change, but ah 😅 the way tags are lost in the aether if you can't find that exact post is part of the reason I haven't liked ''prev tags'' as a way of referencing activity further up the reblog chain
that said even though I hate ''prev tags'' i am legitimately sorry that there's a tumblr change that fucks with the way you use tumblr (and I think I would feel that way even if I did like the recent change, which I don't)
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Did you know that tumblr will generate "year in review" stats for single-purpose sideblogs? I didn't!
I posted 9 times in 2022
That's 9 more posts than 2021!
6 posts created (67%)
3 posts reblogged (33%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@thebibliosphere
@terezis
@bythebyandbithebi
I tagged 8 of my posts in 2022
Only 11% of my posts had no tags
#prev tags - 1 post
#but i am legitimately glad sponsoring the post is amusing to people - 1 post
#if you only intend to communicate with one person - 1 post
#i mentioned this another post but when you use tags you are communicating with everyone who follows or browses your blog - 1 post
#i also have adhd and hard same - too often it's a boring slog without a worthwhile reward especially for sequential prev tags - 1 post
#they passed peer review - 1 post
#like you are achieving communication with *your* intended target but at the expense of being irritating to all other people - 1 post
#or maybe it's a little more like having a full-voice phone convo in rhe middle of a group of people? - 1 post
#not as long as the og but still - 1 post
#long post - 1 post
Longest Tag: 139 characters
#like actually putting the tags in question on your own reblog (whether in the tags or in the text or in a screenshot) is objectively better
My Top Posts in 2022:
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https://theladydrgn.tumblr.com/post/681999207675150336 are you aware someone screenshotted a portion of your post and it's up to 10k notes
I saw that come across my dash separately a bit ago, I think it's hilarious. I'm not familiar with the OP of the screenshot post but if I had to guess, I'd guess that 10k notes is prolly bc thebibliosphere reblogged it and her following is gargantuan.
(I actually follow thebibliosphere, too, and i saw her reblog of it before you pointed it out, although I didn't notice the note count until you pointed it out so thank you so much 😅)
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Screenshots are inaccessible to visually impaired people. If you feel that strongly about it please just promote copy/pasting instead
fun fact! the original post, if you read it all the way through, describes copy-pasting, either within the tags of your reblog or within the text, as alternatives if you don’t want to screenshot
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apparently i’m getting kungpowpenis’d but bc I turned off notes for this sideblog I’m immune from the negative effects~~~
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Because the prev tags is not for you or any of my followers but for the person who wrote the tags ofc but I appreciate the amount of effort you put into this cause you must feel very strongly about it
someone rb'd with a picture of martin luther getting his thesis-nailing on, which probably wasn't meant in a complimentary way but I thought was funny.
also, direct message.
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My #1 post of 2022
JUST TAKE A SCREENSHOT
If you see tags that someone else left on a post and want to share them with your followers (or anyone else who chances across your blog), please, please, PLEASE: don't use "prev tags," or "previous tags" or "prev prev tags" or any variation that may occur to you at the moment you're making that decision.
The very best way on Tumblr to:
share that information in the tags with people who follow you, or
continue a conversation that the person who said that thing in the tags, or
let everyone know how hard you're cackling at a joke someone made, or
whatever other reason you're drawing attention to someone else's tags
is to actually add the tag in question to the version of the post as it will appear when you reblog it. A screenshot is the most durable way to do this, since it gets included in all the downstream reblogs from your own, but if you don't want that for some reason, just replicate the actual tag in question in the tags of your reblog. If you're absolutely, vehemently against the screenshot, including the tags in question could look like this:
or like this:
OP has some really great tags:
#cool additional commentary tangential to the original topic #user who added the tags didn't include them in the body of the post but you thought they were important
and I think everyone should see them
The biggest reason to do this is that nobody wants a scavenger hunt. This is especially true when the tags in question are from more than one reblog down the line, or ones that you found in the notes on a different reblog chain.
The other big reason is the durability thing mentioned earlier. Maybe the tags you're enamored with came from OP, and they decided they didn't want notifications from the post anymore and deleted it. If you used "omg OP's tags 😹" with no further clarification, that information is lost forever when OP deletes the post. Same case if OP (or the person you reblogged from) deactivates, or gets deactivated. Actually including the tags in question makes sure that as long as someone is viewing it on your blog (or on any downstream reblog from you, if you used a screenshot) they can see the same thing you did.
Using "prev tags" instead of actually including the tags you're talking about results in a significant decrease in the usability of the website. Please, just screenshot the tags, or reproduce them in your post.
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from @bythebyandbithebi:
#i have adhd and HATE a scavenger hunt#literally not once has the payoff been worth it#obviously im not the arbiter of what yall can or cant do on your own blogs#but ive started unfollowing people who use 'prev. tags' too judiciously#either shit passed peer review or it didnt
JUST TAKE A SCREENSHOT
If you see tags that someone else left on a post and want to share them with your followers (or anyone else who chances across your blog), please, please, PLEASE: don't use "prev tags," or "previous tags" or "prev prev tags" or any variation that may occur to you at the moment you're making that decision.
The very best way on Tumblr to:
share that information in the tags with people who follow you, or
continue a conversation that the person who said that thing in the tags, or
let everyone know how hard you're cackling at a joke someone made, or
whatever other reason you're drawing attention to someone else's tags
is to actually add the tag in question to the version of the post as it will appear when you reblog it. A screenshot is the most durable way to do this, since it gets included in all the downstream reblogs from your own, but if you don't want that for some reason, just replicate the actual tag in question in the tags of your reblog. If you're absolutely, vehemently against the screenshot, including the tags in question could look like this:
or like this:
OP has some really great tags:
#cool additional commentary tangential to the original topic #user who added the tags didn't include them in the body of the post but you thought they were important
and I think everyone should see them
The biggest reason to do this is that nobody wants a scavenger hunt. This is especially true when the tags in question are from more than one reblog down the line, or ones that you found in the notes on a different reblog chain.
The other big reason is the durability thing mentioned earlier. Maybe the tags you're enamored with came from OP, and they decided they didn't want notifications from the post anymore and deleted it. If you used "omg OP's tags 😹" with no further clarification, that information is lost forever when OP deletes the post. Same case if OP (or the person you reblogged from) deactivates, or gets deactivated. Actually including the tags in question makes sure that as long as someone is viewing it on your blog (or on any downstream reblog from you, if you used a screenshot) they can see the same thing you did.
Using "prev tags" instead of actually including the tags you're talking about results in a significant decrease in the usability of the website. Please, just screenshot the tags, or reproduce them in your post.
#they passed peer review#i also have adhd and hard same - too often it's a boring slog without a worthwhile reward especially for sequential prev tags#I mentioned this another post but when you use tags YOU ARE COMMUNICATING WITH EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS OR BROWSES YOUR BLOG#if you only intend to communicate with one person#to say 'i love ur tags uwu' then prev tags is a way to do that that's obnoxious to others
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im not new to tumblr, but i haven't been here long enough to understand tumblr etiquette as well as other people here, so I was wondering. Why is saying previous tags or using the same tags as the og poster bad?
okay so before I get into the first thing: I don't know of anyone who has a problem with using the same tags as the OP (or the person you're reblogging from if it's not OP); if you are concerned about the impression of "stealing" tags (even though that's not something I've experienced most people on tumblr to care abt), putting some kind of "tags from @stop-using-prev-tags"-style credit can address that. I'm accustomed to seeing screenshots as a way to draw attention to tags, but including them in the text of your reblog or replicating them as actual tags on your reblog are both great.
The thing which I (and a lot of tumblr users who have been users for longer than a few years) find irritating is specifically the use of "prev tags" as a tag without any indication on that reblog regarding what those previous tags were.
A lot of people have made posts to the effect that "it's not for you, it's for the person I reblogged from to let them know I liked their tags," but the actual fact of the situation is that what you put in the tags does have the effect of communicating with everyone who follows you or browses your blog. And it's irritating to have this non-communication plopped into a place where, no matter the blogger's intent, communication with followers or blog-browsers does happen.
It's sort of like... browsing tiktok in public at high volume without headphones; your intent may not be to annoy everyone around you, but the effect is that anyone in the vicinity nonetheless gets a partial version of the media you're consuming, and they need to lean over and peek over your shoulder [actually click the reblog or most-annoyingly reblog chain] to get a picture of what's going on. That isn't a perfect analogy, just because of the extent to which interacting with someone's blog is voluntary, but that is the mindset that makes people annoyed at the use of "prev tags" as its own tag.
#long post#not as long as the OG but still#or maybe it's a little more like having a full-voice phone convo in rhe middle of a group of people?#like you are achieving communication with *your* intended target but at the expense of being irritating to all other people
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i haven't been on for quite that long, and screenshots have been standard for my experience. Copying the tags into the text of the reblog is also wonderful though!! i mention it in the main post and as a few people have remarked it has advantages in terms of accessibility for screen readers.
i reblogged that post about screenshotting instead of doing prev tags but actually if we’re sharing granular social media etiquette i think we should all go back to copy and pasting tags into a reblog and then adding “(via @username)” afterwards. that’s how it was done when i joined tumblr in 2010 and that’s how i think we should do it now. simple. accessible. clear cut. i am an old man shaking my fist about the kids on the lawn
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apparently i’m getting kungpowpenis’d but bc I turned off notes for this sideblog I’m immune from the negative effects~~~
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I'm fucking wheezing
#i wish the original had 30k+notes#but I am legitimately glad sponsoring the post is amusing to people#because it's ridiculous
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https://theladydrgn.tumblr.com/post/681999207675150336 are you aware someone screenshotted a portion of your post and it's up to 10k notes
I saw that come across my dash separately a bit ago, I think it's hilarious. I'm not familiar with the OP of the screenshot post but if I had to guess, I'd guess that 10k notes is prolly bc thebibliosphere reblogged it and her following is gargantuan.
(I actually follow thebibliosphere, too, and i saw her reblog of it before you pointed it out, although I didn't notice the note count until you pointed it out so thank you so much 😅)
#like actually putting the tags in question on your own reblog (whether in the tags or in the text or in a screenshot) is objectively better#but making a single-purpose blog and dropping $10 on showing it to 2500 people is ridiculous and i recognize that#and I guess just to be clear I'd be super-happy if my post *did* have that kind of engagement#but I know how tumblr works and sometimes transformative stuff gets exponentially higher engagement than the stuff it transforms#someone added a picture to the main post of martin luther getting his door-nailing on which I think is hilarious and accurate#although I'm not sure the person who included it intended it to be complimentary
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Screenshots are inaccessible to visually impaired people. If you feel that strongly about it please just promote copy/pasting instead
fun fact! the original post, if you read it all the way through, describes copy-pasting, either within the tags of your reblog or within the text, as alternatives if you don’t want to screenshot
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Because the prev tags is not for you or any of my followers but for the person who wrote the tags ofc but I appreciate the amount of effort you put into this cause you must feel very strongly about it
someone rb'd with a picture of martin luther getting his thesis-nailing on, which probably wasn't meant in a complimentary way but I thought was funny.
also, direct message.
#by 'direct message' i mean 'sed a dm or an ask to the person whose tags were so great#not 'i have sent you a direct message regarding this topic'
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JUST TAKE A SCREENSHOT
If you see tags that someone else left on a post and want to share them with your followers (or anyone else who chances across your blog), please, please, PLEASE: don't use "prev tags," or "previous tags" or "prev prev tags" or any variation that may occur to you at the moment you're making that decision.
The very best way on Tumblr to:
share that information in the tags with people who follow you, or
continue a conversation that the person who said that thing in the tags, or
let everyone know how hard you're cackling at a joke someone made, or
whatever other reason you're drawing attention to someone else's tags
is to actually add the tag in question to the version of the post as it will appear when you reblog it. A screenshot is the most durable way to do this, since it gets included in all the downstream reblogs from your own, but if you don't want that for some reason, just replicate the actual tag in question in the tags of your reblog. If you're absolutely, vehemently against the screenshot, including the tags in question could look like this:
or like this:
OP has some really great tags:
#cool additional commentary tangential to the original topic #user who added the tags didn't include them in the body of the post but you thought they were important
and I think everyone should see them
The biggest reason to do this is that nobody wants a scavenger hunt. This is especially true when the tags in question are from more than one reblog down the line, or ones that you found in the notes on a different reblog chain.
The other big reason is the durability thing mentioned earlier. Maybe the tags you're enamored with came from OP, and they decided they didn't want notifications from the post anymore and deleted it. If you used "omg OP's tags 😹" with no further clarification, that information is lost forever when OP deletes the post. Same case if OP (or the person you reblogged from) deactivates, or gets deactivated. Actually including the tags in question makes sure that as long as someone is viewing it on your blog (or on any downstream reblog from you, if you used a screenshot) they can see the same thing you did.
Using "prev tags" instead of actually including the tags you're talking about results in a significant decrease in the usability of the website. Please, just screenshot the tags, or reproduce them in your post.
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