my name is SHADOW OR MEWTWO my age is 21 YRS my occupation is AUTISM
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one slightly annoying thing about how this website displays replies is that there IS a thing that indicates how many replies "shares" of the post have. but this does not in fact refer to replies that shares of the post have? it refers to replies to the posts earlier down on the share-chain. why is it labeled that way that's so confusing
okay yeah it's not just me
Maybe it's because I never used Tumblr or something but "9 on shared posts" is IMO pretty clearly referring to the posts that are being shared not the "shares" of the post that you are looking at
if someone says they like the taste of buttered bread I would assume they're talking about the taste of the bread after it's been buttered, not the type of bread that gets buttered but specifically in its non-buttered state
I don't get the point you're making here? Shared posts = posts that have been shared & buttered bread = bread that has been buttered. Your reply seems perfectly consistent with Osmose's opinion.
I'd interpret "post that has been shared" in the way I'd interpret "bread that has been buttered". "sharing" a post is a process that creates a "shared post", and comments on that "shared post" refer to comments on the thing that has been created, not comments on the original post from before that process
it's like if someone made a distinction between their opinions on "this bread" and "buttered bread", and by "buttered bread" they specifically meant "the bread that was buttered to create this bread, when it was in its non-buttered state". and like if you already know that "this bread" is buttered you could figure out what they meant. but it's still an unnecessarily confusing way to say it
Hmm interesting, how I'm interpreting it is more like saying “this bread” and “buttered bread” to mean different slices of bread rather than just the same slice of bread at different times. Some of the confusion I think comes from “sharing” creating a new post but “buttering” not creating a new slice of bread.
A more comparable verb might be “picture”. If I make a post containing a screenshot of another post, then I would say that “comments on the pictured post” is referring to comments made on the original post I took a screenshot of, not on comments made about pictures of my post.
Similarly if I made a share/rechost/reblog of other posts, then “comments on shared posts” would be comments on the original posts contained within mine, not on shares/rechosts/reblogs of my post.
i feel like the only part of it that is maybe ambiguous is the word "shares" in the comments number below the post itself. because it's supposed to mean the shares that make up the entirety of the share-chain that you're seeing, but it can also mean completely unrelated shares that you're not seeing right now.
but then again, why would cohost be telling you about the replies on other people's shares of this post you're not seeing right now? i'm pretty sure we don't have an option to see all of the people who have shared a post and i think that's on purpose. so i rule out that interpretation in my head
I mean, yes, if you're already familiar with the platform and you know that that isn't a thing you can see then yes it would make sense to assume that "shared posts" is not referring to shares of the post you're currently looking at. but if you're new to the platform, coming from somewhere else where "comments on shares of the post you're currently looking at" IS the sort of thing you'd expect to see (and where "comments on the chain of posts that the post you're currently looking at is shared from" is a concept usually abstracted away into the normal comment count) then you. wouldn't make that assumption.
i know why they did it (intentionally), but the way comments on shared posts work is really unintuitive.
sometimes i still question myself when seeing that message bc im like "but it would make more sense if it was the shared post im looking at right now"
it's really really weird, i still can't fully adjust myself to what i know it means
The wording of the correct option of that poll was confusing to me.
"Share" is a verb in this context. It's 14 on the posts that (the creator of) this post has shared (rather than 14 on posts that have shared this post).
well. the concept itself is confusing to me, so that's the best way I could phrase it
The more unambiguous way of wording it would probably be “2 comments + 14 on the posts that are being shared”.
I think the current UI is consistent with what the verb “share” means, but conflicts with how people on cohost use “share” as a noun. A post that is a “share” is sharing the posts earlier in the chain with the followers of the sharer.
