frankly I find it insulting the way the tumblr sexy spambots are so exclusively targeted to a presumed cis straight male audience. here of all places can we not escape that? where is the Equality. Give me a profile picture of a man with kind eyes and the caption “Timothy 🍰 31🐨 san jose 🚗 will eat 🍽️ pussy😽” Entice me with a stocky woman with short hair and overalls labelled “Emma 👭 powerlifter 🏋️ drives stick 🎧 24 🌮”
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Lots of scarcely clad women following me, yet none interacting with my posts
I'm starting to think they're not actually interested in what I have to say
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If you are experiencing odd spikes of spambot activities, feel free to share your experience in the replies!! Here's another post with testimonies of others who's going through the same stuff.
I've reported up to 100 bot accounts each day for the past 3 days after making the help me make soup poll... Here are the bots that just arrived while I was making this poll :[
Our goal is to gather enough attention and report it to staff so something can be done about it!! Please help spread this post, I'm trying to reach more people who's being swarmed by bots!!
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HEY TUMBLR @staff, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!
INSANE, RIGHT!??
THESE SPAMBOTS LITERALLY HAVE
P 0 R N
ON THEIR FREAKING PROFILES.
AM I MAD??? YES, I'M MAD. LITERALLY TRYING NOT TO SWEAR RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I JUST KNOW @staff ARE GOING TO BLACKLIST THIS POST FROM NOT GETTING THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES.
@staff, WHY ARE YOU LITERALLY DOING NOTHING ABOUT THESE BOTS?? FIRST, THERE WERE THE EMPTY PROFILES WITH NONSENSICAL DESCRIPTIONS, THEN THE PRIVATE MESSAGES WITH LINKS TO SHADY P 0 R N SITES, AND NOW THIS.
AM I A PRUDE? SURE. DEBATABLE. BUT I SURE AS HECK DON'T GO ON TUMBLR TO SEE LITERAL P 0 R N ON MY DASHBOARD. AND I MOST CERTAINLY DON'T GO ON TUMBLR TO GET THESE STUPID BOTS FOLLOWING ME AND ASSAULTING MY EYES WITH $ E X ACTS IN THEIR TOP POSTS.
@staff, LITERALLY HOW HARD IS IT TO PUT LIKE MORE COMPLICATED CAPTCHAS OR SOMETHING THAT MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE SPAMBOT ACCOUNTS??? I KNOW I'M NOT WELL-VERSED IN BOT DETECTION SOFTWARE OR WHATEVER BUT IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO SHOULD, IT'S YOU!!! HAVE SOMEONE ON YOUR FREAKING TEAM TO DO IT FOR THE LOVE OF PETE
LITERALLY ABOUT TO REBLOG THIS TO ALL MY BLOGS AT THIS POINT BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE GETTING BOTS LIKE THIS WHO ARE FOLLOWING THEM AND LIKING THEIR POSTS.
SPREAD THE WORD
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Got to block a fantastic spam bot url yesterday
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ATTENTION SPAM ACCOUNTS DO NOT FOLLOW ME I DONT WANT YOU FOLLOWING ME LEAVE ME ALONE
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things that will always make me assume a blog is a bot/spam account and not a real person:
the url is a keysmash, a name + random numbers, or a series of random words that tumblr probably generated itself
there is no blog icon
↪ there is a blog icon, but it's of a random beautiful woman
there is no blog title
↪ there is a blog title, but it's the same name/words as the url
there is no blog header image
there is no blog description
there are few or no original posts
↪ there are few or no original posts, just a tiny handful of reblogs
(any combo of the above tbh)
if you don't want people to flag your blog as spam and block you, i recommend doing the following:
come up with a unique url that reflects a personal interest
give your blog an icon. it can be clipart. it can be a picture of a tree. it can be anything as long as it's not a random beautiful woman.
give your blog a header image w/ the same guidelines as the icon
give your blog a title that's not just repeating your url
put something in your blog description that sounds like a human wrote it and not a machine (even just saying "hi i'm here to lurk and that is all!" can be enough to let people know you're real)
make a few unique posts or reblog things regularly using tags so folks can tell there's a person behind the postings
i realize this is kind of annoying, but it is necessary tbh. at least for me, as i've been having to block/report 500+ spam accounts per day for like four whole days straight now and i'm losing my mind. if you don't make it clear you're a person and not a bot on tumblr you're gonna get flagged and/or blocked. it's kill or be killed out here and you will be just another casualty of war.
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I'm new to Tumblr. Every time I get a little hope to have a new follower yaaaaaay it's a bot T_T Was it always bad like this ?
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Yes, I can BLOCK the spam bots, but when will I be given the option to PARRY them?
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please reblog to help get more answers! And if you want to, put your reasoning in the tags.
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Me after having purged my follower list of spam bots
Except cheezbot.
Cheezbot can stay.
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