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April 16, 2009
...Altering Re-Blogs
I don’t agree with it in the least. Add your comment, but leave the original blog post alone.
When I see someone I don’t follow has re-blogged my post, I check it out. Sometimes I wind up “following” them, but when I see they’ve edited my post or eliminated portions of the original post, I never go back to their page.
I’m sure some would disagree with me, but I find it disrespectful to all the posters that caused it to show up on your dashboard in the first place to alter the post.
Though Ms. Bateman is often a tad aggressive, this stance is not a terrible one to take. There are exceptions, but on the whole, you should leave a reblog in if you are adding to a conversation.
Exceptions:
1) In the case of long, inane threads such as “What is your age?” “What is your location?”, you shouldn’t be responding at all, to save all of us a little headache. But if you are caught up in the thrill of the shameless request for reblogs and must respond, you can and should edit the thousand previous answers for efficiency and aesthetic on your Tumblr.
2) If someone is reblogging an article/quote/argument and the previous comments are all the “co-sign” and “this” variety, then you may remove them, since those don’t add anything to the original post.
3) If someone has made a grammatical mistake and you wish it to appear correctly on your own blog. Do not, however, bold their mistake and write that you have corrected it. What are you, the ever impertinent and often inaccurate eatshootleave?
4) If you only wish to respond to one of the arguments or points the original poster is making.
5) If someone makes the same point a few times in the same post, you may remove a few of these repeats, but use caution if it seems to be part of their rhetoric or language. Only edit conceptually when it terribly weakens their post.
