fannish etiquette question

[ratcreature]

With the proliferation of Tumblr, what do you do if another fan just reblogs your pictures? I understand that one of the reasons people like Tumblr is because it is so easy to just post a bunch of pictures and video and such, but I do have a notice that I don't want my art distributed without permission, because I'd rather like traffic to come to my site than some random Tumblr or other site. (This seems to be an ongoing problem for me of late.) Am I just behind on the new fannish normal?

Comments

[copracat]

Tumblr is about reblogging. That's why it makes it easy to keep the trail of reblogs and to assign click through links to images so that it's easy to get back to the original webpage of image or whatever.

It may be that Tumblr is not the blogging platform for you?

[ratcreature]

I did not put my fanart on Tumblr to begin with. I haven't used Tumblr since 2007 when I uploaded a single rat photograph. Someone else grabbed my fanart from my website, that has a big note not to distribute my art, and put it on their Tumblr.

[copracat]

Aargh. I apologise for my ignorant comment. I missed the point by several miles.

[ratcreature]

It's okay. I noticed that I didn't exactly say in my post that I did not mean "reblog" in the sense of one Tumblr to another, but in the genral sense that I of course blog my own art in a way, and then someone put it on their Tumblr.

I actually would mind it less if it was within such a system and I could still see the traffic somehow and such. I mean, I allow the embedding thing that deviantArt has so that others can repost a preview that then links to my page.