Discussion: The Reblog Feature -- What to do about it? • Find New Booklikes Blogs To Follow • BookLikes

#105 by: BrokenTune date: 9 years ago discussions stats

Thank you BL. "Bugging" is somewhat of an understatement. For some of us it is the single-most contentious issue that reviews can be re-blogged at all. The current lack of transparency of credit and authorship is just salt added to the wound.

#106 by: RedT Reads Randomly date: 9 years ago discussions stats

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Thanks for letting us know about the decision. That's a big step.
Looking forward to the implementation.

#107 by: Debbie's Spurts date: 9 years ago discussions stats

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Any news? It's been a year booklikes.

At the very least, maybe the reblog note could come at top of blog view posts like it does in dashboard view. Possibly an easy introductory request for your new hire programmer.

And years later I still have no clue why it would ever be okay to reblog a post that says it is a review.

#86 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 9 years ago discussions stats

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Thanks for bumping this up, Debbie. Still the same concern it's always been.

#87 by: Debbie's Spurts date: 9 years ago discussions stats

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Yes, still the same concerns.

Sometimes even when a post seems clearly to be asking for a signal boost, I refrain because it says things like "I" or "my" (and it's just confusing to reblog something like an author's announcement of their new release that sounds like I'm announcing that "I" wrote that book).

I'm positive I'm not adding anything new. But nothing has been done after more than a year of complaints.. It seriously cannot be that difficult to at last make sure the "reblog" notice is at the top instead of the bottom of a post ... *headdesk*

#88 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 9 years ago discussions stats

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... and the last time their own blog was active at all (according to its timeline) was on July 19. And we have a fair number of newbies, or people who actively started to participate only recently here, and who, though they're great to interact with, may or may not be wise to the fact that reblogging reviews isn't exactly considered good form ... (which they certainly aren't going to learn, either, from the fact that it is technically possible to reblog reviews; much to the contrary, the fact that the feature is technically available for reviews suggest that it's perfectly OK to use for them, too). Nor can they possibly all be aware already that if you have implemented a design of your own on your blog, a reblog will show without your added comments in blog mode and will simply make the original (reblogged) post appear as one of your own ...