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.)
I did not know this. This is pretty dumb, though. I agree, tumblr really does need a wiki or something.
It was still a thing last I checked, anyway. In your activity, can you see the reblog notification for the first-degree ask in the popcorn conversation? Does the notification include the asterisk?
Also, I once tried reblogging an ask from someone other than the OP, but where mine was the first reblog in the chain to include commentary, and it didn’t notify properly. It looks like the first-degree ask *does* need to have something in it for the next degree to show up.
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