Well.. you are bonkers, but not because of this post... ha ha....
I don't know how others choose what they reblog either except that a couple of people that I follow do weekly events that lots of people participate in. I think they reblog all participants to help give them exposure. Although I understand those and am not miffed about it, I do find myself scrolling through a lot that are reblogged without stopping because of that and not really checking them all out unless some sort of cover photo or title really grabs me in.
One person used to do that, but said someone complained about it and so he stopped. I guess when it was early in my journey here, I thought it was a shame that someone let one person complaining and threatening to unfollow stop them, simply because sometimes being exposed like that got others to check out a post they would have otherwise not seen and now everyone lost that because of one. If you were small or new, it sometimes made a difference.
I also admit that there have been a few that I followed, that I have unfollowed because of the content of their reblogged posts. Too many and nothing I would be interested in and sometimes the same hiver reblogged daily. I thought maybe they thought they could make some brownie points with that ...LOL... I don't really know, I guess at things a lot.
I'm not sure which filter you are talking about. Maybe I don't know what that is and maybe I should know.
Lol...Bonkers huh? I'll own it. 😊
How is it giving them exposure if people simply scroll past? All it does is dilute the quality of the rebloggers blog-feed, annoy their followers and demonstrate a lack of regard for those who followed them in the first place.
Everyone knows (or assumes) the reblogger hasn't read twenty posts in a row and so it's simple spam. Also, I've opened some now and then, randomly, and some were so terrible I left immediately. Why would a person want to reblog total rubbish just because it's posted in their community? I don't get it.
Here's the filter. I know you'll use it.
Of course it is not helpful if everyone scrolls past and nobody reads it! ...but you don't always know that as a young hiver and sometimes, friends of friends that have reblogged actually did read and you got new chances to make friends.
Still... .I totally understand what you are saying that reblogging just for the sake of reblogging instead of only choosing to share something you think is quality, may take away from the whole purpose of reblogging to begin with.
What's funny, is right after I comment above, the next thing that I saw when I came back to my desk was where two "reblog for pay" accounts had reblogged my blog. LOL !!!
Thanks for showing the filter thingy. Somehow I missed that. Long ago I wished for an option like that ha ha... wonder if it was already there when I wished it.
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The people doing this spam-re-blogging are not always new people. Established accounts.
Phew. For a moment I thought you didn't.
This is sheer idiocy.