#Also please bottle feed me Tumblr etiquette/history please and thank you I’ll enjoy it

[thepaintedsable]

‘elp, Old Tumblr users. Rebloging question!

Uh, Howdy! I am quite the new user compared to some of y’all, and I want to see if I can compile a little help here. For my own sake and I suppose whomever may ever run across this.

Why is rebloging so important? Why doesn’t liking suffice? The overarching questions of this! I almost completely understand Tumblrs other functions, but this one evades me. Is it due to the lack of algorithm? Some side questions are below.

Is liking and not rebloging viewed as rude? From what I have gathered, I’ve seen this is fat yes, but I understand things better when there’s an explanation and I haven’t actually found a blog compiling the dos nd donts on this particular issue! I’ve seen that it’s because users, especially artists, won’t get as much traction without a reblog, which is fair, but then what does the like function do? I thought I was being nice by liking, but I’ve seen a couple of blogs that they find it relentlessly annoying and I went “awh shit oh no”

Is there a way to keep your reblogs in a separate space? I seriously don’t want this to come off as rude, I’m just genuinely curious. I post art, myself! I’d love to show off other artists work, but I also don’t want my own stuff to get drowned out in my tirade of showering someone in the plethora of reblog hell (I can and will death scroll way too deep into artwork or fandoms; the large compiling of just everything is the reason I came here! Inspiration galore!). I’ve seen some blogs with no reblogs of others, but who say they want to be rebloged themselves and seemingly take part in the practice somewhere! Which just has me curious. Would it be rude (to standard… standards?) to use a side blog to repost instead? I understand the point is to push the posts to people who follow you, and this would technically go against that. I just want thoughts!

No clue if anyone will see this. Not actually sure what methods you’ll use to respond. But rest assured, if anyone does, you’ll be doing me a favor so I can leach off of your responding habits also because I’m a little fool who wishes to learn and interact.

#tumblr etiquette #tumblr etiquette question #how to tumblr #I'm honestly extremely curious about the answers #I’m not coming from Reddit nor Tik Toc #My dumb brain decided Tumblr would be the best “baby’s first social media platform” for my art #because Twitter is scary Instagram is kinda poo #And the lack of an algorithm and most censorship here allows for such a catharsis #I can say poo poo words on this one and not get my a double s clapped into the damn void #And being able to talk in the tags is filing my whole need to talk in parentheses (because now the extra thoughts have somewhere to go) #help lol #i need assistance #Why reblog? #Also please bottle feed me Tumblr etiquette/history please and thank you I’ll enjoy it