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====Linking to a tumblr post instead of reblogging====
====Linking to a tumblr post instead of reblogging====
{{Quotation|"I have never seen criticism of regular old citations, such as someone writing an essay with links to other posts or websites as reference.
That being said, there is a strong preference on Tumblr for keeping all discussion and commentary in reblogs of the original post, for three reasons: Links tend to die on Tumblr because of blog name changes. When someone > changes their blog name (it's easy and it's free), links get broken. Because of the lack of privacy tools on Tumblr, name changes are the only way someone can avoid discovery by family, friends, and co-workers; it's not always a whim.
In addition, there is a reluctance to click on links at all. Most Tumblr users browse through the phone app, so their ability to navigate the web
can be limited.
But the main reason is that reposting instead of reblogging content is viewed as feedback theft. It seems weird to us 1990s web folks because
we grew up without a reblog function. When we quoted someone in a blog post, no one viewed it as theft, because content was static and stayed
where it was. Our pages couldn't travel around and "go viral," eclipsing the original post.
Likes and reblogs are how Tumblr creators get feedback -- pretty much the only way -- so they are very protective of their content. Even a paragraph of it showing up somewhere else is going to feel like a theft of feedback to them. But the love of feedback in stark numerical form is not a new thing; remember the 90s obsession with page hit counters? Basically a Tumblr post is a page that's getting hits, and putting its content (even a small portion) somewhere else is taking away hits.
The importance of likes/reblogs going to the original creator is something us 90s folks need to grasp to be decent Tumblr users. But even though I understand it, I feel that in the long run it is futile. I don't think Tumblr/Yahoo gives a shit about preserving content. It would not surprise me if Yahoo arbitrarily blew away everything pre-2012, for instance, to save a few bucks. Tumblr is spending all its time and money on the phone app, because mobile advertising is by far the biggest source of Tumblr profit. I think web-based Tumblr is going to slowly die of neglect."<ref>[[Stewardess]] email sent to [[Morgan Dawn]] on June 1, 2015, quoted with permission</ref>}}
====Linking on tumblr to outside content====
====Linking on tumblr to outside content====