#citing and practicing source & information evaluation ain't just for academics

[teaandcrowns]

Hey so here is the original post with a reblogged addendum by the original poster, who was screenshot. You can tell the poster who created this particular version of it did not include everything the screenshotted poster said because it is cut off mid-sentence. 

Considering that the original, screenshotted poster is also on tumblr, still has an active and very searchable blog (I found this post in about 15 seconds of typing in their blog name then going to their archive and looking only at text posts), and the post itself is still rebloggable, I encourage everyone interacting with this post and incomplete screenshot of the original post to think about why someone might choose to: 1) screenshot instead of reblog, 2) not include a screenshot of the entire post, and 3) add accusatory rhetoric about an incomplete quote. It is quite easy to see, with a cursory glance through reblogs of the original that the OP reblogged themselves to continue the conversation, that they were not saying or implying what this secondary re-poster is accusing them of implying.

Seeing a screenshot of an active tumblr where the post could be reblogged (and where the blog who reposted does not acknowledge and give reason why they left out the fuller context) should immediately raise questions, and I implore everyone to take a moment to do a little digging in those instances, especially with controversial topics (or information some might gain to misrepresent).

I know tumblr isn't academics, but it has its own citation conventions—reblogging, which allows people to trace back to previous posters (for a given iteration of a post), and adding in hyperlinks. Just like in academics, and any other well-researched genre of writing, this is so readers can go back to one's sources and do things like: choose to read more on their own or see the original context of the information or quote used and hold other writers accountable for any misrepresentations.

Liberals are already telling everyone all the things they can't have in the future, which I'm sure will generate winning levels of enthusiasm