#additional tags for ppl avoiding spoilers >

[katsurolle]

just let it be me, okay?

[ethos-labrador]

alright, so i've seen a couple posts similar to this but i wanted to add some things:

if you are coming to/back to tumblr from tiktok, welcome! here are a few things that will help you get started:

1) when setting up your profile, make sure to set a pfp and banner so you look less like a bot. people don't typically show thier face here and anomyinity is encouraged, so it can be of whatever. you can also hide your likes in settings - most tumblr users do

2) you can turn on timestamps in settings. if nothing else i highly recommend turning on timestamps, or you'll be missing a lot of context on your dash (i could not tell you why timestamps are off by default.)

3) tumblr doesn't have an algorythim - it just shows posts from ppl you follow in chronological order, so likes are used moreso as a wave to a friend or a hug than to help spread the post. if you want to help spread the post you reblog it, and if a mutual is ranting about an irritating coworker you give it a like. some people also use their likes as a sort of saved posts folder

"but i see a tab that says 'for you'?" you may be saying. and yeah, that exists, but it doesn't work very well, so most users ignore it

4) Make sure to tag things correctly. Putting unrelated tags on a post won't help more people see it - you'll just end up irritating people who go to #dogs and your parrot is there instead. Tags also help people avoid triggers and topics that they don't like, so it's important to tag sensitive topics acurately since words like "kill" and "suicide" are allowed here. dodging the word itself by adding numbers or misspelling it only hurts people who find it upsetting

the only big topic that's not allowed here is (notoriously) NSFW content. you'll still see it a lot from bot accounts, ane text based NSFW is fine if tagged correctly. Illustrated NSFW sometimes makes it past the filter if artists are creative with it

5) Block tags! This is useful for mental health reasons, but also, is there a new show you haven't seen yet and you want to avoid spoilers? You can add tags to your filtered list in settings and take them out after you watch the show. Following someone who's now obsessed with a movie have no interest in but don't want to unfollow them? Just block the related tags. Love scrolling through a tag for a show you like but hate a popular ship? Block the ship tag(s)

6) every post here has a comment section, and a reblog section (unless OP turned them off). I often use the comments to talk in posts if it's a more private conversation (IE the annoying coworker example from earlier), but most talking will happen in the tags. When you reblog a post, the person you reblogged from will get a notification as well as the original poster, so you can use this to chat to the previous blogger (prev) and/or to talk to OP. I'll put some talk-y tags on here so you have an example of what that might look like (Also you can't put commas in tags. Spaces are fine but no commas. Why? great question)

7) you can also add to the main post when you reblog something. typically people do this if they have something signifigant to add to the conversation, as opposed to talking about TV characters the post reminds you of or saying smth along the lines of #same

8) you can get to the original post from a reblog chain by clicking where the date of posting is. the date will be off by default for some reason, like i said earlier. clicking this is useful if you want to read OP's tags or if you want to remove additions to the bottom of a post and reblog the original thing

if you have questions, drop them in the comments and i'll answer if i can, either about the culture here or how to navigate settings!

[pray4jensen]

hiya! quick question: why do people tag their queued posts as such? like, why do they differentiate between queued and live posting?

i think it really depends on the person about why they do it! mostly for me, it is a way to give a heads up that even if my blog seems active, i may actually be severely inactive. for example, if my friend castiel had been posting relentlessly all month long about how his boyfriend dean just died, my queue tag at least would let castiel know that i’m not being an inconsiderate friend by ignoring him. rather, i haven’t been online much over the past month, so i didn’t know that dean was dead again (rip dean). if cas sent me an ask one week ago, asking for advice on whether to make a deal with the devil, if i’ve been posting since, at least my queue tag will let cas know that i probably haven’t seen his ask yet.

that being said, a queue does take time. to add posts in a queue, you also have to be online to do it, so sometimes you can roughly tell when a person was last seen alive. the queue tag also becomes more difficult to do on mobile because there’s no auto-tagger function to use. when i queue things on desktop, that is when my queue tag appears, but on mobile, i rarely have a queue tag on a queued post because i’ve become lazy and don’t manually add it on. in that case, i end up giving the false impression that i’m online when i’m not.     

tdlr: a queue tag is a great way to let other people know if you’re around, and a queue in general is a good way to keep rolling out content on a consistent basis, even if you inconsistently reblogged 30 posts at 4 a.m. on a sleepless night

[scrawlingskribbles]

Why don't you tag posts with the full thing name as well so ppl who have the general tag blacklisted don't have to add your additional tags to blacklist to avoid seeing them? ie "RE7spoilers" not being tagged as "Resident Evil 7" at all

!!!! Sorry! Honestly that’s because I’m really rather lazy when tagging things just because…. I don’t have a genuine tag system outside of my personal stuff?? (and really don’t use blacklisting myself so I don’t know all the ins & outs of how it works) so I don’t really think about things like that often…

(also because like I said in the tags I don’t even know if anyone who follows me would actually care about spoilers–I keep forgetting that I’m actually nearing 800 followers which means more people really are seeing the stuff I reblog~!)

But yeah, sorry~! I’ll try to remember to do that in the future! Thanks for telling me c: