#blog commenting site

[son-of-avraham]

POV: you block antisemites on this site

[bikananjarrus]

people need to start reblogging posts again i’m so serious. like it’s getting dire out here.

[localaceken]

I can't believe there are people who are mad over me calling Jay "my wife" lmao

By the way for their information, not only all ninja except Lloyd are my wives, Nya Pixal and Skylor are my husbands 😊

[mushroomjar]

I don't like the way you guys talk about Palestinians asking for donations. I don't like it.

I had to see someone make MULTIPLE posts bitching and moaning about how people need to stop sending them asks asking for them to reblog their donation posts, that they'd just be blocking them from now on, and that they didn't care if they were vetted because they still found the act of sending asks to get reblogs on their donation links suspicious, even if they were in a dire situation. They even went as far as to say that they got an ask, deleted it, and then they got another ask from the same person, and accused the person of sending another ask to purposefully "get under their skin"

I don't know man, have you considered that being a victim of ongoing genocide will make you ask for help in whatever way you can? And sometimes that involves sending random blogs asks to see if they can donate or at the very least share your donation links? A Palestinian reaches out to you multiple times because they need help and your response is to whine about getting donation links in your inbox? I wish I had your problems

Also the thing about "getting the exact same ask from the exact same blog multiple times"... uh, duh? First of all, they're probably reaching out to dozens of blogs daily, do you think they're gonna type up a new paragraph for each blog they reach out to? Second of all, maybe they reached out to you multiple times because a. They really really really need the help and b. What, do you think they're gonna see your URL/blog and be like "oh! I already reached out to this blog, I'm not gonna send them another ask"? Or do you think they'll be like "this person has been reblogging other people's donation posts, maybe they'll reblog mine too"?

Like I understand being suspicious about getting sent donation links to your inbox, but literally all you have to do is check if the blog's been vetted by other bloggers? It's as easy as searching for their URL on tumblr sometimes, it literally takes less than a minute or two. And that's what bothers you? That's what you're complaining about? Find a real problem!!!

[portablecity]

really love having my own website where i can blog or post art or link to my friends' stuff and read comments and talk about how my fav books and movies intersect and if you haven't got one of your own i really recommend it!

[mandala-lore]

Does anybody have advice/experience/anecdotes about starting a semi-professional blog or personal website?

I have outlines/plans mainly to share media reviews and criticism, maybe some original creative work (poetry, etc.) - and I've looked at my options. I already built a Google site but there are serious limitations there and I don't want to have to get into coding to solve them. Everyone seems to recommend wordpress but I don't know if I need all those bells and whistles.

I mainly want to: write, allow comments, keep track of analytics, and mayyyybe make a little money (but I could always redirect people to Patreon, I suppose).

I don't know why I'm turned off by wordpress. Maybe I'm just being contrarian.

Medium sites always look embarrassing to me...

I do feel kinda silly that I have a substantial audience here. I could just... start posting longer posts. But when I do, they don't seem to get much engagement, so. Plus, I definitely don't want to redirect new audiences to this blog I've been running since I was 14(?).

Part of me wants to stick with the Google site and shrug off the no comments thing - because it's so easy to use and I can easily stitch in new pages/sites as needed. (And I have plans... schemes, even...) But if wordpress really is the best option for engagement, I guess I could get over myself.

Ugh. Idk. Thoughts???

[linterteatime]

Sorry for this, but people have been really fucking annoying on the comments of my posts lately that I'm really really considering privating the blog for some days or something bruh💀

[save-the-villainous-cat]

wow isn't it cool that All Quiet on the Western Front won some Academy Awards in 2023, the same year in which Germany started to ban pro-Palestine protests :) isn't that amazing how we have learnt absolutely nothing?

[paintpanic]

Hello! Inspired by recent news, I've started a Pillowfort! (I'm @paintpanic on there, also.) Nothing posted on there just yet, but I'll try to get around to it sooner or later. You can expect to see the same stuff you'd see here on there.

Pillowfort is a blogging platform very similar to Tumblr - albeit much smaller and lacking some features. This is because it's entirely user-funded! So no ads or obnoxious monetization schemes.

It has several other features that really appeal to me, like a total AI ban. (Also! NSFW content is allowed. I'm sure that appeals to a lot of people.) The one caveat I should mention is that there's no mobile app right now (it's in the works, though!).

If this site sounds interesting to you, you can go give this introduction post a read! It explains a lot of things way better than I can.

[faunandfloraas]

Aren't you supposed to bias seungmin? so why do you make gifs of other members

me if it was illegal to make gifs of other members ^^

[bluegarners]

lmaoo don't come into my direct messages saying i should talk to you if i disagree with a fandom take and then block me immediately after, just say you like fanon better than canon. richly ironic for you to do all that

[bloodiedbuck]

//someone sent me an ask and this fuckass site WILL NOT let me answer it. Like literally, the answer button is gone, I can’t click it, I’m not ignoring them I just literally can not answer 😭

[neverendingford]

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[nintendont2502]

wait who blocked you

calware i think lmao

idk none of my comments ever show up on their posts + if i reblog something from them my rb doesnt show up in the notes but. eh. again im not gonna go bother them abt it yk if they did block me thats their call :thumbsup:

[claraknight]

Hey jokes aside I really hope this site still lives because, hell.

I have nowhere else to go?

[bluespring864]

noooooooooooo rafolearchive 😭 im so sad why cant people on here be normal

That's a very good question. but it's tumblr, none of us has ever been particularly normal i guess (i usually mean that as a compliment, but not quite so much in these cases of constant passive-agressive and sometimes openly agressive behaviour from people who haven't understood 'ship and let ship' it seems). But I'd like to stress again that I do not know why the rafolearchive deactivated, there could be lots of other reasons for it.