Getting rid of nazis on your blog

mage-cat:

porcupine-girl:

queeranarchism:

Hey, if you’re sick of nazis on your Tumblr but you keep on having to block new ones, Tumblr’s most recent experimental feature can probably really help you out. It’s called Reblog Graphs and you can test it here. 

Basically, what it does is show you a network of how your post was reblogged and who were big influencers in getting lots of reblogs. That’s useful in general but extra usefull if you want to know who to block to get rid of shit on your dash. 

For example, this post that I wrote got a lot of notes and when I use Reblog Graphs is generates this graph:

I’m the yellow dot and all the other dots are reblogs, the bigger the dot, the most reblogs originated from that reblog. Next, I can click on the dots and see who they are and what content they added. For example:

When @thatdiabolicalfeminist reblogged my post the result was a lot of supportive reblogs, helpful feedback and conversations that I want to have. 

But check out the other cluster: 

When wogbeginatcalais reblogged my post the result was a stream of hateful comments by white supremacist, nazi blogs and nazi trolls. Not stuff I want and one reblog started all of it. 

I had blocked a lot of white supremacist blogs when the hate started, but according to Reblog Graph I missed out on quite a lot of the most important blogs that were causing my post to be noticed by these shits in the first place. By blocking key nazi dots in this chain, I can now more effectively stop nazi shits from finding my posts. Good to know!

That’s all. Happy Tumblring. 

Okay, this is a great use for this, but do you have any idea HOW USEFUL THIS IS AS A RESEARCH TOOL????

I’ve been wanting to do research on tumblr for YEARS – looking at things like pseudoscience posts, and how their information spreads either with or without refutations in the reblog comments. Or about the process of creation of those collective works of fiction tumblrites like to create (like anything I tag “tumblr sci fi” – those “what if humans were the weird ones” posts or whatever).

But if a post has more than a few hundred notes, it becomes a nearly impossible task to dig through all of those and – well, basically create this graph, without access to Tumblr’s inner workings. And then you STILL can’t tell which reblogs the likes were on.

THIS IS AMAZING, THIS IS PROBABLY THE #1 THING I’VE WANTED FROM TUMBLR FOREVER!

I’ve been playing with this for a bit and it’s really neat, but could someone explain to me how to use it on a post that is not currently on my dashboard?

There’s a post I wrote a couple of months ago that still gets notes, which is unusual for me, and I want to see the path that it has been taking, but I can’t find a way to view that post that gives me the option of using this tool.

I have found one way:
– create a side blog and follow it
– or follow an old side blog you already have
– reblog the post on your side blog
– the post is now on your dashboard
– analyse
– if you do not want the post on your sideblog, delete the reblog once you’re done