Recently had an experience where someone basically took a swipe at me in the notes of my post but put it in the tags and when I responded to it said person called me out for being in breach of netiquette because it's apparently an accepted part of site culture that you just don't respond to stuff in the tags. Said person then proceeded to block me and you know I respect that, but that interaction still left me puzzled because of the absolutely bizarre social dynamic at play there.
I have talked before about how that part of the site culture is stupid, like I don't like it when people write whole essays in the tags and it's especially infuriating when they basically write a whole essay disagreeing with the thesis of the post instead of. Making that part of their own post. But that's not really the issue here. The issue is the whole appeal to netiquette in a situation where a person was taking a swipe at me (it wasn't like a huge personal attack but still something where I felt the need to address it) on my own post. In case you didn't know, when you reblog someone's post and add tags to it, the original poster sees those tags by default, so like. I feel trying to turn the situation around to make it seem like I'm the one acting out of line is honestly just mean-spirited. You came on to my post and sassed me in the tags and I'm supposedly out of line for responding? Nah, fuck that.
