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.
You have my permission to comment on any of my posts.
I mean, given the opinion you were expressing, I kinda figured 😛
I have attempted to not reblog things to disagree with them. If I see a post that I disagree with so strongly that I need to write about it, I make a fresh post of my own. I sometimes forget that a reblog that expresses a sentiment that I agree with may not be the sentiment of the original poster. If someone reblogs one of my posts to disagree, and does so disrespectfully, I just block them. I don’t bother replying anymore. If it’s a civil disagreement and well stated, then I don’t care.
Despite my front of cynicism, I am one of those idealistic weirdos who believes that you can change people’s minds through arguments and evidence – yes, even on the internet. And I am actually aware of some people who have been persuaded that Ragnarok was bad by reading arguments to that effect. (There are also people, myself included, who were converted via private messaging with the right subtly persuasive person. But that’s a precision operation; you have to choose the right target and be very strategic, and you’re limited to one at a time.)
But also I just sometimes get pissed off when I see someone saying something stupid, especially when I see a lot of people reblogging the stupid thing. Possibly I should create my own post and maybe link to the offending post, but people are more likely to see the counterargument if you put it on a post that keeps circulating. (Though there are limits to how well that works, considering that I must have commented two or three times on that one with Steve saying “son of a gun” and then “son of a bitch” that the second one was from Age of Ultron and therefore they were both written by Joss Whedon. So no, it’s not the contrast between his inept characterization and the, er, psychological finesse of those geniuses Markus & McFeely.)
Loki is the Philosopher King 