That sounds like a great compromise, at least for purposes of some posts.

Provided, that is, it were set up in a way so as to work also with reblogs of reblogs:

E.g., I reblogged a post a couple of days ago, and in that case, it was really important that all the attention and all reactions would go straight to the original post (for reference, it's this one: http://archerreads.booklikes.com/post/1192515/i-really-hate-to-do-this-but-i-need-your-help ). But some people who doubtlessly likewise simply wanted to help and spread the word just reblogged my reblog, which of course made it read "reblogged from ThemisAthena" in their reblogs, so in fact, the reference to the original post got lost entirely.

I tracked down those that I saw and added a comment directing people's attention to the original post -- and I know this issue has been mentioned here before -- but I think the above example shows that (1) sometimes it really *does* matter to retrace a reblogged post to its origin, (2) people can't however be expected to do this each and every time, and (3) the key message may be changed, or get lost irretrievably, in the course of multiple reblogs.

And I'd still want the option to make certain posts of mine flat-out non-rebloggable at all (reviews first and foremost, as well as other personal / proprietary things). I'm already down to only posting abbreviated preview versions of my reviews here on BL as it is anyway ...

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Which she isn't, however ... (boring though that may be). ;)

Anyway, yes, I likewise hope that those who donated really understood who they were *really* helping. The only other time when a reblog of mine made me feel quite as bad was way at the beginning, when I saw that a reblogged review showed up as if it were my own -- I instantly deleted it and resolved never to reblog a review again. This situation is different, though, because reblogs (if properly configurated) could actually do something good ...

Oh, absolutely -- that's what ultimately matters. Still, it feels like wearing someone else's feathers to see this thing popping up under my name. If I'd thought that just posting a "please read this" note with a link to the original post would have been equally effective I'd have gone for that, but I figured it wouldn't. So I went for the full reblog ... (sigh).

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This is why I created a blog post of my own instead of reblogging.

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Exactly. And not all of those who've gotten a slew of new followers all of a sudden and are being pulled into dashboard activity have been around long enough to already have developed an in-depth understanding of how the site works to begin with. Or even if they've been around for a while, they may not yet have had that many interactions with others to see the reblog function in action on a larger scale, with reblogs of reblogs, etc.

I wasn't as clear as I should have been in my first post; my thinking was the "read more" or "read entire review" link in the reblog would always be directed to the original blogger's URL so no matter how many times it was reblogged from a reblog, that link would always stay the same and anyone wanting to read more would automatically be sent to the original post.

The way I see it there are two main issues here (aside from just wishing you could turn off the reblog for reviews completely, which I'd love to see): Keeping people from misunderstanding the authorship of the reblog (which is more of an issue with reblogged reblogs - ugh, the terminology!) or trying to plagiarise a review, and consolidating the discussions and commentary to avoid splintering. The truncated review would make it difficult to pass off as original to the reblogger, and the link would encourage people to comment on the original review (because if they read the whole thing, they're already there).

Probably not a perfect solution, but I thought I'd mention it in case it could work as a compromise.

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Thanks, BL. Appreciate it. And no worries, I get that you guys are focused, and have your hands full, on working to improve existing features and issues. I love the site so anything new would just be like a cherry on top. :)

I'm concerned about the format of reblogs, too. I recently discovered that if a person reblogs and adds their own little commentary note to the reblog, which we see at the top of the reblog on the dashboard, just the original post shows up on the person's profile, not including the note.

If you were going to change things about reblogging I think there should be
a) an easy way to trace who the original post came from, even several reblogs later, but also
b) the ability to see the reblogger's commentary on their profile, not just the dashboard.

Encouraging reblogging is reminiscent of Tumblr, and the best Tumblr moments happen when people talk to each other through reblogging. At the moment when we try to reblog a reblog with commentary, the original commentary is lost. That makes it hard for someone to reblog and comment on what the reblogger has said in their commentary.

For example, and I'm going back to the kitty surgery Themis mentioned earlier: Themis originally made a blog to draw attention to the cat's surgery. Moonlight Reader reblogged and added a commentary that she was creating a giveaway to help out. When I tried to reblog Moonlight Reader's reblog, I was just essentially posting Themis' post. The info about the giveaway that Moonlight Reader had made a note about was lost.

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Thanks Murder by Death for your suggestions, you're right it sounds like a fair compromise. We'll surely add it to our agenda and brainstorm with BL team while doing some service makeover. Thank you.

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Hey The Moonlight Library (Nemo), we're working on the best possible solution right now. We agree it's not perfectly executed right now. All the comments to reblogs should be visible on public blog pages, however, the edited templates and some programming issues concerning them are in question here. We've contacted our designers who should adjust their templates with the updates done in the service to make reblog comments visible on their templates, we're still waiting for their feedback.

Our engineers are also working on the issue as we speak, we hope to find a desirable solution that will suit all parties.

I'm sure this has been suggested before. If so, consider this a "me too" post.

It would be nice if we could use spoiler tags when commenting on somebody’s blog posts. The inability to do so can really stifle conversation in response to reviews, and that conversation is (at least for me) the best part of BookLikes. It’s hard to discuss anything too explicit about a book with other followers who have read the book, because we might spoil the fun for people who haven’t yet read it.

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Good to hear it's working :) Please let us know if you notice anything disturbing, we're here to help :)

@HFK, thanks for your helping hand :)

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I'm curious, were you using a mobile or a tablet when this happened? Sometimes this happens to me when I browse BL using my Kindle.

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I also want to be able to like posts directly from someone's blog.

It would be awesome if we had a feature that can help us keep track of books we read that are part of a series.