Oh, Tumblr, thanks for hiding a really important reblog with some really important commentary from me. What else are you pretending hasn’t been said?
In just a minute or so, I’ve found two more cases where this happened.
That means it’s happening all the time.
WHAT THE HELL.
Were they all first-degree reblogs of asks? Reblogs of asks, if they are reblogged directly from the OP, show up as commentary-less in the notes regardless of whether they actually lack commentary. Reblogs of reblogs do show commentary. (I don’t remember if the intermediary reblog needs to have commentary or not, but I don’t think it does.)
This is a long-standing and widely known bug, but not always widely known enough.
(Probably we should adopt a social norm of avoiding commentary on first-degree ask reblogs. If one really wants to reblog an ask to respond to it, and there isn’t already a first-degree reblog available, one first reblogs it without commentary (perhaps a small note to one’s followers that one is about to add something) and then reblogs oneself to add the commentary.)
(Is there some sort of centralised wiki or something for unofficial Tumblr documentation? Spreading each individual fact through word of mouth does fit with the general usage style of Tumblr, but the coverage isn’t always that great.)
Yes, I think they all were. I’ve been dealing with a lot more asks than usual lately, so that would be why it seems like it just started happening. I’d never heard of this before. Thanks for letting me know.
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#(October 2016) #conversational aglets #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(yes I know rustingbridges also responded to this recently) #(but I haven’t decided yet whether and what to say in response to that one) #(I’ll get it to within the next few days or so)
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