Hello folks. Here’s another tipping update for you.
We are rolling out blog-level tipping for iOS and web today. This is a win-win—if you’re a fan of someone’s blog and forever loving their content and creations, well, you can tell them how much you like their style. If you’re a creator, you can receive monetary appreciation from your peers via tipping, well, just for being you.
What?
You can now enable tipping for your blog for web and iOS in your profile or blog view, following the launch of post-level on web and international tipping recently. This will be good news for creators, as it permits tipping at blog level without tying the tip to a specific post. This is especially important for those concerned about fan art, for example. You can find the option to gift your favorites a sweet little something directly in their blog view header, beneath their avatar. We are currently working on this feature for Android too, and it will launch soon.
How?
It’s simple—you can share your blog’s tipping URL at: /blog/view/Your-Blog’s-name/tip.
…and by “here,” we mean on web, for now. But! On web! You can now enable tipping on a post-by-post basis. This setting will launch on web from today, March 22. It’s in the works for Android soon, and iOS in the future.
Why? A lot of you have requested this feature. It means that you can now decide which posts can receive monetary appreciation from your peers via tipping.
Select the cog icon in the top-right corner of the draft.
From here, you can toggle “Allow Tips.”
Tipping is for your original posts only. When you reblog a post, regardless of whether the OP has tipping enabled, you will not have the ability to enable tipping on your reblog.
Secondly: Tipping goes global!
When we originally announced tipping for the US, we told you we’d be rolling it out to other territories soon. Well, soon is here, now.
You can now enable tipping in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, or the United Kingdom. Join your friends in the US by gifting a sweet little something to your favorite blogs (and posts—post-level tipping is out to everyone on web, as of today). Happy tipping, Tumblr!
Any questions? Then please drop us a line on@wiporSupport, and keep an eye out for more on @changes.
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Hello folks. Here’s another tipping update for you.
We are rolling out blog-level tipping for iOS and web today. This is a win-win—if you’re a fan of someone’s blog and forever loving their content and creations, well, you can tell them how much you like their style. If you’re a creator, you can receive monetary appreciation from your peers via tipping, well, just for being you.
What?
You can now enable tipping for your blog for web and iOS in your profile or blog view, following the launch of post-level on web and international tipping recently. This will be good news for creators, as it permits tipping at blog level without tying the tip to a specific post. This is especially important for those concerned about fan art, for example. You can find the option to gift your favorites a sweet little something directly in their blog view header, beneath their avatar. We are currently working on this feature for Android too, and it will launch soon.
How?
It’s simple—you can share your blog’s tipping URL at: /blog/view/Your-Blog’s-name/tip.
The tip button will then become available in the blog view header.
To tip at blog level…
View a blog.
On web, select “Tip” in the blog view header. On mobile, tap “Support”.
From here, you can select how much you’d like to gift.
And that, friends, as they say, is that.
Any questions? Then please drop us a line on @wiporSupport, and keep an eye out for more on @changes.
@wip@support What’s Tumblr’s cut of each tip? I can’t find that information anywhere which to me is really suspicious honestly. How much do you take? What’s the fee or percentage?
Also, what about if people already use other tipping services that work outside of Tumblr - Paypal.me, Kofi, StreamElements, Patreon, etc. Are those suddenly not going to be allowed on Tumblr? Are people going to start getting flagged or banned for having external tipping services on their blogs?
Too much information is missing for me to trust this.
As of July 2016 across major Canadian cities Uber passengers can now tip their drivers through the app feature when completing the ride. In the past there were talks about implementing this option as users felt compelled to give that extra for a good experience.
Before Uber I used to catch a cab here and there around Toronto mostly arriving to destinations off the public transit reach or when going for big groceries. Then I switched to Uber for obvious reasons or price, practicality, quality, service, and was very happy to have embarked a whole new side of the sharing economy.
When riding on a taxi I used to give tips since we all know it can make a difference at the end of the month for the driver. However, I grew unsatisfied with cab service quality as fairs gone up, car quality gone down, especially for those routes taking passengers in and out of the airport. So I decided to switch.
Uber now has set the ability to give that tip to your driver with a preset sum of your choice. I’m a bit in the fence over this decision as tips should be give to those who deserve it for extraordinary service. The app already allows to express your driver’s rating and to send a thankful note as an additional way to remark what part of the experience was above your expectation.
I ask myself if the system is setup in a way your driver won’t give you a bad rating should you decide not to provide the tip because the ride was fine, but also because it was expected to go that way. Tipping should be a personal choice an not a moral tax based on quality.
Your waitress or barista at your local cafe will benefit when you drop that change into the jar on the counter that has a “thank you” note on it. We also understand that tipping these people is helping them compensate for the low hourly wages that alone aren’t enough to pay for the bills.
The process of tipping has long become so widespread in Canada there’s a minimum 15% to be given when sitting at restaurants, and that happens whether the service was sufficient or extraordinary, almost without discrimination. So customers will most of the time abide in case they receive the judgment stare from their server.
Personally, I always believed the tip is an extra people deserve if they went beyond their call of duty in a context of meritocracy, not on entitlement. I’m happy to provide more than what the bill states to the person that serviced me, but it shouldn’t be a taxation on the customer when service is mediocre at best.
My worry over the Uber tipping feature is that it will spark a guilt trip by riders into giving tips based on a subjective feeling and not on actual performance, or that a fear to receive a bad rating will trigger tipping. After all, when the driver is on time, drives safely, is polite, he or she is just doing the job as expected by contract with Uber.
I wanna do more explanatory posts about crochet kind of like what I did here. I think I’m gonna put the tipping options on those posts because I do try to make them useful and educational. I mean, worst case, no one ever tips me. Best case, I can buy myself an extra sandwich for funsies, right?
Howdy folks! Just wanted to pop in and let you all know I’m getting close-ish to finishing my next brew, and ho boy it’s a doozy. It’s a big steampunk-y class that has been in the works since before the Foundry has existed and it will be so amazing to finally get it out for the world to enjoy. The hope is to have it done by the end of the month but we’ll see what happens, so time to get excited!
In other news, apparently Tumblr has rolled out a new “tipping” feature, which seems pretty cool to me. I’ve gone ahead and enabled it, so for anyone who has wanted to support me but didn’t want to go the Patreonroute, you have other means of doing so! Hooray!
Anyway, back to the grind, as it were! See you all again hopefully soon, and thank you so much for your continued support and patience. Stay safe and don’t forget to love each other.
I’VE BEEN FUCKING TELLING PEOPLE THIS SHIT FOR YEARS!!!!!
One more thing that’s fucked in America.
did not know this wow
Don’t use this as an excuse to stop tipping people.
Instead, ALWAYS tip in cash.
The server can keep the whole tip, not pay taxes on it, and the employer can’t use the tips as justification for paying a low wage because the employer doesn’t know how much the servers are getting in tips.
If you can’t use cash, ask the server if you can tip them directly to their Venmo/other direct pay app.
Tipping allows you to accept tips on your blog and on individual posts. Unlike POST+, followers don’t need to be monthly members to tip you. Tips are one-time payments. After you enable tipping, you can accept tips on your entire blog and on all your original posts.
ENABLING TIPS
To enable tips, you have to connect your blog to a Stripe account. Tipping is available to eligible accounts as soon as you create an account. You can enable tips on primary and secondary blogs. Tips are not available for group blogs. Here’s how to enable tipping.
Desktop
Click “Settings”
Toggle on “Let people tip you”
You must create and link a stripe account to accept tips. After you’ve attached your account, you’ll be redirected to your settings where you can enable tipping.
Mobile
Go to setting and toggle on “Let people tip you.”
BLOG LEVEL TIPPING
After you’ve enabled tipping, you’ll be able to accept tips on your entire blog. A tip button will automatically be visible beneath your avatar in your blog view header.
You can also share your blog’s tipping URL at: /blog/view/Your-Blog’s-name/tip.
DISABLING TIPS ON POST
After you’ve enabled tips, all your original posts will have tipping on by default. If you want to disable tips on specific posts, you can manually toggle it off in the post settings. Keep in mind, this is currently only available on the web.
GIVING TIPS
You can tip creators either publicly or anonymously. Either way, you’ll have to be logged into your account to send a tip.
Posts with tipping enabled have a small tip icon at the bottom. After clicking the icon, you can select which tip amount you want to send. If you’re on desktop, you can add a custom tip amount. The minimum tip amount is $1.
When you add a message (allowed for non-anonymous tips only), this will add your message a reply to the post you just tipped.
Hotel workers have a 40% higher injury rate than other service workers.
Women are 1.5 times more likely to be injured than men, because nearly every hotel housekeeper is a woman, and housekeepers have a 50% higher injury rate than all hotel workers.
Hispanic housekeepers are two-thirds more likely to be injured than white housekeepers.
91 percent of hotel housekeepers have suffered work-related pain.
66 percent take pain medication just to get through their daily work.
Here’s how you can make housekeepers’ jobs a little less shitty. [EDIT: These tips are US-centric.]
Reduce bending situations. For instance, hotels often tell you to toss towels on the floor that you want replaced. Try setting the towels on the closed toilet instead.
Gather all the trash cans into one.
Leave a note saying not to change the towels every day.
Make your own beds.
Write a note with a tip thanking the housekeeper for not making the beds.
You can strip the beds by taking off all the sheets (including the ones holding the duvet, if that’s the system the hotel uses) and pillowcases, putting them in a pile, and then piling or loosely folding the blankets and duvet and putting them in a separate pile with the pillows on the stripped bed.
Tip daily. The same housekeepers aren’t always there every day.
$2-5 per person, per day is the expected gratuity if you’re a courteous guest.
Remember to mark it clearly for them so they know it’s for them to take (as opposed to leaving bills just sitting out willy-nilly).
Do Not Disturb: If you put up a Do Not Disturb sign, the housekeeper is usually just given another room to clean. In a lot of cases, that new room will be outside their normal section, one of the leftover rooms in another part of the hotel. This means they’ll have to push their heavy cart a little farther, spend time waiting for an elevator, and then have to clean a little faster to get it done. That other room might also be a normal, fine room, or it might be a disaster zone, where someone gutted a fish in the tub or spilled Pepsi on the bed. And if there isn’t an extra room to be given to a housekeeper when they have a DND, they’ll probably just be sent home early (especially if it’s a non-union hotel), so they lose some of that day’s pay. [EDIT: I’ve gotten a number of comments saying this info is not correct for all hotels/hotel chains. If nothing else, you can ask hotel staff about what happens if you put up a DND sign and make your decisions based on that info instead.]
For all these reasons, try not to use the DND sign. Just tidy up your room as much as possible, follow the steps above, and leave a tip. Your room will just count as an easy clean, and maybe the housekeeper can take a couple minutes to sit in the armchair and rest instead of rushing to the next room.
Hey guys I have been Seriously absent from my Tumblr and that’s not cool! My life has just been absolutely crazy! I’m going to try to be more active on here though because I’ve missed my Tumblr family!
As always I’m open for requests and art! I also set up tipping! I’m excited to be back and make new content for you! ❤️
This is just to let you know that tipping is now available on my blog (after they denied me because of too many community guideline infractions) if you don’t want to go through Patron to support me! I will be adding Post+ soon as well, but as a Patreon alternative too; in fact, you guys will both get the same stories eventually!
