writernotwaiting:

Controversial opinion: the messaging function of Tumblr has increased interactions among bffs, but exponentially reduced social interactions among users as a whole, bc users almost never leave comments on re-blogs. I love messaging, but I deeply miss the at-large back-and-forth on my dashboard.

The other major reason people don’t leave comments on reblogs is that it’s assumed OPs don’t like it – an impression constantly reinforced by all the posts one sees passive-aggressively bemoaning the annoying comments people leave and how you have to go up to the last version without the annoying comments if you want to reblog (because apparently that’s a huge hardship). And a lot of people will also block you for disagreeing, however civilly and rationally… but they also do that preemptively if they just see you express a view they don’t like in your own post or someone else’s. So the current etiquette limits what’s acceptable to put in reblog comments. Praise and enthusiasm should go in the tags; disagreement should go… nowhere, preferably (in light of the robust Tumblr Consensus phenomenon), but if you must, in a vagueblog that makes indirect reference to the post that inspired it. Reblogging to add commentary seems only to be acceptable when you have further analysis to add that’s in basic agreement with what everyone else on the thread has expressed. Or occasionally if you come up with a *really* good witticism about the post.