I totally concur with the scarcity idea - I hardly ever reblog posts, it's very seldom and most of the time it is something that resonates with me on a deep emotional level. This is the way I see it - my blog is a showcase of me as a person, my writing, who I am, what I stand for, it is a reflection of my personality.
Everything I keep on my page is like a marker of a day or moment in my life and whatever I reblog is as well. Why would I want to dilute my account with hundreds of random posts?
I think that having a similar situation as you do with muting posts would work well - you need to provide a reason for a reblog, although I think a spammer is going to spam and will simply copy and paste a generic reason.
Ecency promoting it by incentivizing it with points is an avenue for abuse, so that probably does account for some of it.
I agree with you until the end sentence about ecency. There are no avenues of abuse, only abusers who choose certain directions to take.
Hi @nathen007
Well yes, I get your point there - it's all about how people will use a tool. That's Galen's original thought on the reblog as well I think.
It's like you're in my head!
Indeed. Most/none of which have been read probably. The spam-rebloggers probably just click the button and move on. Senseless.
Sadly yes.
They incentivise reblogging? Is that true? Ecency seems fucken retarded. (Some one will probably take offence to that I guess.)
I've just checked this out - you get 1 point for reblogging a post, it's not very much but it's still something. I suppose it's probably not a very strong reason for somebody to reblog something in all honesty
Dafuq!
Offense taken.
I figured someone would, but chose to use my freedom of speech regardless. Thanks for letting me know.
You know, as well as anyone, that when you are promoting a contest or starting a new community that reblogs are beneficial in getting the word out. I won't use my freedom of speech in this case.
I do know that, for sure, but one person blasting 20 reblogs onto my feed doesn't sit well with me as I have stated in this post. 20 people reblogging one each onto my feed (that they have read) wouldn't be a problem. There's a distinct difference. I'm not trying to convince anyone, they'll all do as they please, as it their right.
Entire reason Points exist is to encourage and increase engagement on platform. There is diminishing effect formulated in that will decrease reward after your first reblog. You can learn more about points in https://ecency.com/faq page if have any doubt.