Crediting rules I go by;
Something something I woke up from a nightmare and need something to do so I’m going to ramble about this for a sec.
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If I find a stim I like, I…
1: like and reblog it, using tags to organize it with keywords that I may search when making my own boards in the future.
1a: This means colors (individuals like #blue, or pairs like #pink and yellow; as well as #colorful, #rainbow, #holographic, etc); the object of a stim (e.g. #fidgets, #slimes #drawing #eyeballs, etc); as well as any trigger warnings (even if listed in the original post already; things like #twflickering and #tweyestrain); and also any ideas I may have for the stim[s] (ex. One might remind me of a movie like song of the sea so I’ll tag #sots, or a character like Wally Darling so I’ll tag his initials as in #wd. Or even an original story of mine, in which I’d tag my story’s acronym like #tgk or #ebfbb/e).
1b: Tagging is its own bag of ships or bucket o’ worms or whatever other metaphors there are. I’ve found the more specific you are, the better; but also general stuff may help you if you can’t remember that in the future. (Ex. You find a stim of someone painting an instrument, so you tag #painting a violin; but in the future you can’t remember what you’d tagged, and searching through #painting or #violins isn’t working; so you can either go searching through #pink — the color being used in the painting — or even the all-dreaded and all-holy #gifs.
1c: everything is tagged with #gifs. If ever you lose a stim then you know it’s at least in that tag, and you can try either painfully scrolling through it for hours or use control F on a laptop keyboard for key words that may have been in the post).
2: always source my reblog in my stimboards, not OP’s original post.
2a: This is because there’s a lot of deactivated or shadowbanned blogs on here. By linking my reblog the post will always be available to me if OP deactivates or something else happens.
2b: The one exception to this is if there is another stim on the post that makes me uncomfortable enough to not want it on my blog.
3: let people know of changes I or other people made to stims through editing. (You may find Source Notes on quite a few of my stimboards).
4: let people know of trigger warnings on some sources (things like #twflickering, or #twspiders. I always make this noticeable by using red colored text and italics. I’m aware people likely have these things filtered already, but a fair warning is a fair warning).
I think that’s pretty much it! I’m not saying you have to follow these rules too or anything of course; it’s just my general consensus.
Now I’m either gonna work on organizing some sources now or make a board or write or something. Goodbye now, and sleep well whenever you’re off to bed!!