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dragonlady7Ugh I have just thrice in a row learned some hard lessons about the auto-restoring drafts function, namely, DON'T FUCKING DO IT. It helpfully says "autosaved draft at 8:37 pm" so when I accidentally clicked away from the page, and it asked if it should restore the draft, I said "sure" because I had been watching the autosaves this time and was like oh it's definitely got the eight paragraphs I just wrote, I watched it update as I was going, so no worries, it's got this--
NOPE! It restored the saved draft from the LAST time it deleted all my shit, which was at about 5:02 pm, so fuck that.
ANYHOW. On to the actual post I've been trying to make:
So re: my last post, Can You Blacklist Tags, the answer is no, but do not despair!! Huge shoutouts tormc28 for linking to this great article by kore : How To Blacklist Tags.
The short version is, 1) you have to be a paid user, 2) you have to make a subscription filter (it's like the privacy filters you can make to determine which of your subscribers can see various of your entries? which will make sense once you use the site a little, I promise), and then 3) within that filter, you find the user(s) who post content you don't want to see, and you find the tag(s) they use to indicate that content, and then you exclude those tags, so that going forward, when you view that filter on your reading page, you won't see posts about X by that user.
It seems like that would never work, but bear in mind that on DW 1) you can use cuts much more fluidly, 2) there's no reblogging so every bit of content on your page was posted by the person who published it so there are no surprises and they've had to consider it more fully, and 3) people really do tend to use tags for organization instead of art, here, so it's really likely things will be tagged with useful indicators.
So. I bought a subscription, because I'd been wanting to anyway.
Now, I'm not really a generous person, but if you're someone who relies heavily on Tumblr's blacklisting to curate your life, and you've just jumped ship over here with me, and you're kind of inwardly freaking out-- listen, hit me up, I will gift you some paid time to see if you can make this site work. I don't have a lot of money but I have this gift card from work that has assorted spare change left on it left over from me buying myself paid time and I have points, apparently, to spare, so. I will be delighted to sponsor somebody's journey to Dreamwidth acceptance. Just hit me up.
The real reason I had been planning to get a subscription, though, is because I fucking missed making polls on LJ and I'm going to make them here all the goddamn time. So, hold onto your butts.
(I used to hand-code them on LJ, too, because i was a twit, but I'm rusty, so take me away, Poll Creation Wizard.)
NOPE! It restored the saved draft from the LAST time it deleted all my shit, which was at about 5:02 pm, so fuck that.
ANYHOW. On to the actual post I've been trying to make:
So re: my last post, Can You Blacklist Tags, the answer is no, but do not despair!! Huge shoutouts to
rmc28 for linking to this great article by kore : How To Blacklist Tags.The short version is, 1) you have to be a paid user, 2) you have to make a subscription filter (it's like the privacy filters you can make to determine which of your subscribers can see various of your entries? which will make sense once you use the site a little, I promise), and then 3) within that filter, you find the user(s) who post content you don't want to see, and you find the tag(s) they use to indicate that content, and then you exclude those tags, so that going forward, when you view that filter on your reading page, you won't see posts about X by that user.
It seems like that would never work, but bear in mind that on DW 1) you can use cuts much more fluidly, 2) there's no reblogging so every bit of content on your page was posted by the person who published it so there are no surprises and they've had to consider it more fully, and 3) people really do tend to use tags for organization instead of art, here, so it's really likely things will be tagged with useful indicators.
So. I bought a subscription, because I'd been wanting to anyway.
Now, I'm not really a generous person, but if you're someone who relies heavily on Tumblr's blacklisting to curate your life, and you've just jumped ship over here with me, and you're kind of inwardly freaking out-- listen, hit me up, I will gift you some paid time to see if you can make this site work. I don't have a lot of money but I have this gift card from work that has assorted spare change left on it left over from me buying myself paid time and I have points, apparently, to spare, so. I will be delighted to sponsor somebody's journey to Dreamwidth acceptance. Just hit me up.
The real reason I had been planning to get a subscription, though, is because I fucking missed making polls on LJ and I'm going to make them here all the goddamn time. So, hold onto your butts.
(I used to hand-code them on LJ, too, because i was a twit, but I'm rusty, so take me away, Poll Creation Wizard.)
Poll #20847 Take Me Away, Poll Creation Wizard
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16
What opinion should I have?
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Mean: 6.40 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.27
Mean: 6.40 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.27
| 1 | 1 (6.7%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 3 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 4 | 2 (13.3%) | |
| 5 | 2 (13.3%) | |
| 6 | 1 (6.7%) | |
| 7 | 5 (33.3%) | |
| 8 | 2 (13.3%) | |
| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 10 | 2 (13.3%) |
What Should My Next Poll Be About
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what to write next
2 (13.3%)
what to remodel in my house
2 (13.3%)
something about my cat
8 (53.3%)
ticky boxes
3 (20.0%)
the fact that tumblr didn't offer polls is
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a travesty
4 (25.0%)
a tragedy
5 (31.2%)
probably for the best
9 (56.2%)
a blessing
2 (12.5%)
chicken
6 (37.5%)
what's the best cat name you've seen lately
have i gone mad with power?
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yes
0 (0.0%)
no
3 (20.0%)
probably
3 (20.0%)
you were already mad B
9 (60.0%)
stop this now
0 (0.0%)
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Date: 2018-12-08 02:25 am (UTC)Thank you for this! I still don't know if I'm going to need that filter, but a paid subscription sounds pretty darn good just for the polls function. (And I can cover it probably.)
Do you know if it works the same for communities? I've found a couple for the general fandom I'm following, but of course that generality means my hard NOTPs are merrily posting away there too.
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Date: 2018-12-08 02:34 am (UTC)You could set it up to only show you certain tags, or to not show you other tags, i think it works both ways-- so you wouldn't, I think, see untagged posts. I'd have to mess with it to be sure.
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Date: 2018-12-08 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-08 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-08 05:05 am (UTC)(Supporting DW's no-ad mission is the other 50%. But that's not as pithy.)
Poll away. We are clearly more than ready for the tickybox-and-cats inquisition!