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[Shut off last version of this post to avoid possible continual spread of misinformation that was corrected by staff. Reposting clean with corrected info]
So I'm sure almost everyone knows about the porn bot problem by now, so here's a post detailing why it's a problem, and what we need to do about it.
First off, yes, always block the porn bots. Don't be mislead into thinking they're ok to keep around because they 'inflate your follower count.'
Firstly, no one cares about, nor can anyone even see, your follower count. Be free from the shackles that are the bullshit other socials told you was important. Don't let your ego be tied to a number. Having a lot of followers won't earn you any clout here.
Secondly, bots only follow blogs to try and legitimize their malware (and other dodgy) links. This post goes into more detail about that.
Now that that's out of the way, you'll need to know how to recognize a porn bot. This round the template seems to be:
A profile photo of a pretty lady or guy, usually in their underwear, with a similar header photo.
A bio with some combination of: [Age] // [Name] // [Location] // [Emoji] // [Top Bullshit% OnlyFans]
URL consisting of a name followed by a number (i.e: firstlast999)
Typically an empty blog, or if there is content, it's all dodgy links. Visible, but empty, Likes Tab, & occasionally a visible Following Tab.
You likely recognize the pattern.
So, what you want to do is, first, report the blog as spam On mobile it'll look like this:
On mobile you'll need to report spam first, and then go back to the menu again to block.
On desktop it will look like this, and unlike mobile, you'll be able to report spam and block in the same motion:
If I remember correctly,* be sure to "Report Spam", not "Report sexually explicit material" to feed the bots to the proper channels. Because the blog is empty, they haven't posted anything explicit that would violate TOS. However, staff can recognize a bot, and if you report the blog for spam (the actual problem) they'll take a look, more than likely find that the blog is posting or DMing dodgy links, and dispose of it.
And I think that's it. Here's wishing you all a happy and safe blogging experience!
[UPDATE: It was suggested on another post that the bots track your IP if you click on them to send more your way. However, someone from staff corrected and said this is incorrect. They also corrected the 'guilt by association' myth that bots following you can get your blog flagged by tumblr.
That said, that trail all led to another, easier, way to report/block the bots all from your Follower Tab instead of visiting each blog separately, unfortunately it only works on desktop:
(For newbies, click on the little person icon at the top right of your screen and scroll to find the Followers tab under the blog/sideblog you need to block a pornbot from.)
*I remember this information from a blog that used to be all about taking down the pornbots. Unfortunately I do not know if that blog is still active, nor can I remember the URL. If anyone knows what blog I'm referring to, and/or if they're still active, please feel free to tag them so others can follow them for more tips!
#psa#reblog to boost#reblog to spread the word#tumblr#bots#tips#newbie guide#helpful#useful stuff#tumblr user manual#tumblr tips#tumblr stuff#how to tumblr#tumblr how to#tumblr guidelines#long but important#pornbot invasion#pornbots
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I can't believe I spent over an hour on this.
[My head hurts to much to transcribe at the moment so if anyone wants to do that themselves, then go ahead!]
#deltarune chapter 2#ralsei#deltarune#tumblr etiquette#deltarune fandom#deltarune ralsei#honeycomb ralsei#deltarune au ralsei#ralsei deltarune#Honeycomb#how tumblr works#tumblr basics#the tumblr experience#the tumblr basics#tumblr guidelines#tumblr guide#annoying dog
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Another Guideline for Tumblr Usage
Hi! I've seen a bunch of posts going around recently with tumblr etiquette rules, but a certain account's recent activity (receiving 20-30 Recent Meme asks per hour after asking people to stop) has led me to realize that a certain element has been missing.
Specifically, ask and tagging etiquette when it comes to famous/popular blogs.
Step 1: You see something cool. Really cool. 'Sweeping tumblr, has tens of thousands of notes' cool. You want to show it to someone. Your immediate circle is not enough. Your groupchat is not enough. You want to show it to One Of Those Blogs, the ones with follower counts in five or six figures.
Step 2: You go to their blog, to double-check their username. You open the ask box. You--
Stop. Close it. You need to do something else first.
Step 3: Go to the search bar. Do a search for a keyword relating to the thing you want to share. If nothing comes up, try doing it as a tag (replace '/search/key word' with '/tagged/key-word' in the url).
Step 4: Nothing came up? Great. Proceed to send the ask. Try to be polite. Do not act entitled to their time.
Alternate Step 4: Actually, you didn't want to send an ask. You wanted to tag them in the post. There aren't any asks about it yet, so it's fine, right?
Go to the post notes. Check the replies. Check the reblogs with the filter set to "comments only." Make sure nobody else has tagged this person yet. If they have, and it's not an old version of the post (e.g. the thing you want the famous blogger to see is a reply that was added in the last two days, and they were tagged on the original version a few months ago), go ahead and tag them.
Why is this important?
Think of it this way: imagine if you got so many text messages about the same three-word joke from strangers that you could no longer see if your friends (they're chill, you love them) or your mom (she's important) were messaging you. Your friend wrote you a sonnet! They put a lot of time into it!! And you didn't see because three hundred people you've never met were texting you a single pogchamp image. The exact same one, every time, no edits, or only edits that were the same joke as fifty other people's edits.
Imagine how annoying that would be.
Now, the next time you try to let someone know about something they are very likely to have seen already, please do them and yourselves a favor and just... check to see that you are not the fiftieth person to do so in the last day.
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How to see 'mature' content on mobile.
New Tumblr terms are here (aka welcome back female presenting nipples) but everyone is defaulted to 'hide' when it comes to the good stuff. Here is a step by step guide to fix that if you're on mobile. 18+ only please
Step 1: Go into your settings, click 'content you see'
Step 2: Scroll down till you find the labels. 'Mature' is a catch all but there are specific options available
Step 3: Personalise to taste :)
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People will be openly posting about being pro-terrorism and promoting terrorist content, spouting shit about killing, beating, raping, and doxxing women for disagreeing with them about certain topics, will proudly advocate for pedophiles and claim they have a legitimate sexuality, all while talking about their baby diaper fetishes and BDSM lifestyle based around ageplay.
And then will be like,
“My blog got deleted for transmisogyny.”
#gender critical#tumblr#censorship#tumblr guidelines#radicalization#feminism#radfem#tumblr problems#gender#gender ideology#gender cult
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Why does @staff let people blatantly disrespect Jewish people and a whole nation of Israel and say stuff like “they shouldn’t even exist”
“Down with Israel”
“Death to Israel’s”
“They’re a menace” ect but y’all live blocking and deleting peoples accounts who haven’t even DONE or said anything remotely like that!!!!
I’ve seen more hate speech under the Israel/palestein tag than any other time ever!
#israel#Jewish people#tumblr#tumblr hipocacy#hippocrates#Jews#Hamas#palestein#hate speech#anti semitism#anti israel hate#tumblr staff#tumblr guidelines#wtf#wtf yo?!??
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General Guidelines For New Users
(this is an ongoing list of just things I compiled from other blogs, so if you have anything else to add, let me know and I'll put them here)
Reblogs are everything. While in other platforms, likes help the algorithm find good posts to put on your recommended and stuff, here it doesn't really happen. So the only way for people to get recognition for their posts is to reblog them. So even if you have very few followers or whatever, reblog!!
Don't add your thoughts, comments, etc. directly onto someone else's post when reblogging, unless you're sure they're okay with it. Instead, just add your comments to the tags, or if you have something else to say about that discussion, either make your own post relating to it or ask first if you can add to the discussion. AKA:
This one seems pretty self-explanatory, but since some people still don't get it: don't go being a dick on someone's blog/in their inbox. Seriously, if you're even thinking about sending someone death threats, hate, or whatever, just don't. Find something better to do with your time, cause that's just not it.
Tags serve multiple purposes here: we use them to rant or add on thoughts sometimes, but also to just generally organise your blog. For example, I tag everything I write with #libby writes, that way if you're just looking for my fics, you can search my blog for that tag and it'll all show up, tagging makes it easier for you to find what you want in blogs. Tags also work as a way for others to blacklist content, for example, if you haven't watched a movie yet but everyone's talking about it, you can just blacklist content related to that movie and it'll all be hidden/show up with a disclaimer that it contains content you blacklisted until you take away the restriction.
Don't keep the default Tumblr images cause people will think you're a bot. You can change it to something as random as a Google picture of a park bench, as long as it isn't the Tumblr default picture cause most people have a tendency to block those. Just take the time to personalise your blog a little bit.
Don't be impatient when it comes to asks. Some blogs, especially the bigger ones, get dozens of asks a day, so don't be impatient or get mad if they didn't answer yours. At the end of the day, it's their blog, they decide what to post and what not to, and people have lives outside of Tumblr so they won't always have time to answer.
If you don't like something, don't interact with it, it's as simple as that.
Don't press people for information about themselves. Tumblr thrives on anonymity, so if people want to share, they do, but if they don't, you need to respect that. This isn't like Twitter where everyone has their names, age, picture, address, social security number or whatever on their accounts. Here, if you want to be faceless and nameless, you can, and that should always be respected.
Those are the ones I remember at the moment, but like I said, this can change and be lengthened as time goes on, but I hope it helped all you new users get a better idea as to how this works!
Also, if you're a Larrie or in the One Direction fandom, look these up as well, they're a bit more catered to our fandom.
-Love, Miah <3
#helpful resources#tumblr discourse#twitter vs tumblr#twitter comes to tumblr#tumblr guidelines#tumblr dynamics
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hey new tumblr users
Welcome!
So - you’re starting to settle in to your new tumblr home but the landscape is still pretty wild and you’re not sure entirely what’s going on outside your window. Since my first post about reblogs kind of blew up a bit and it had a couple of questions showing up in the comments, I figured I’d make another post in case that helps anyone.
Today let’s talk about communicating.
no, no, come back here. It’s gonna be okay. This is something you only have to do if you want to.
You can go your entire tumblr existence just reblogging posts and enjoying the people you’re following. That’s cool. But I see a lot of new arrivals want to be interactive too and that makes sense considering this is a social media site. In fact, tumblr can be VERY social given half the chance. This post here puts it wonderfully.
So, you’re on tumblr. You’ve picked out an icon for your blog. You’re reblogging posts you enjoy (sharing the cool rocks you found with the people hanging with you) and you’re ready to get a bit more interactive. Its kind of daunting though because tumblr seems to have a lot of ways to interact and some unspoken rules on how to do it. Let’s break this down.
First and easiest is to respond to posts. You see something you want to comment on, an interesting post about sharing rocks for example. There are three ways you can interact directly with the post.
1. When you hit ‘reblog’ there’s a spot for you to add comments (gifs, etc) of your own. This is great for things you don’t mind everyone and their cousin getting to see. A quip, adding a fact, telling a related story, politely disagreeing or providing another viewpoint, bouncing off their idea and expanding with one of your own, adding to the story idea they’ve presented, throwing in a relevant gif, etc. This is the space for things you don’t mind the entirety of tumblr getting to read. You’ll notice a lot of posts are chained comments like this with multiple people contributing to the post by the time it reaches you. There really isn’t any rule about not doing this but general consensus is to make it, somehow, apply to the original post and to not be a butt about whatever your reply is going to be. Someone posting about fighting depression by making themselves stop and enjoy the way roses smell probably doesn’t need you replying by talking about how rotten roses are and how life is pain, highness. Start a new post of your own if you want to express that.
2. tags! Tags are the #tags part of a post when you hit reblog. A lot of people use these for their original purpose, which is to *cough* make it easier to find things using tumblr’s search engine (tumblr’s search engine is pretty wack). Still, tags are sometimes useful. They can, theoretically, help you or people on your blog look up posts quickly. They can help people doing a general search of tumblr tags find posts on subjects they’re interested in. I regularly search ‘bunblr’ for instance (highly recommended). BUT tags have a secondary use that a lot of people have adopted as well. Tags can be used for a kind of ‘aside conversation’. This is where you can write comments when you don’t necessarily want to add them to the body of the reblogged post. It isn’t meant to be shared with tumblr as a whole. It’s for the people following you. Sometimes one of your followers will paste your tags to the post itself and you’ll see comments like ‘how could you leave these in the tags?!’ That’s a good thing and usually means you hit a cord but most of the time tags are just for aside conversations and not derailing the post itself.
3. Reply. That little speech bubble at the bottom of a post? Click on that and you get the little ‘reply’ section. Here’s where you interact with the original poster (OP) directly. You can ask a question, add a short story, give encouragement, etc. There’s a character limit on it so you can’t get crazy verbose but its a good way to add a short bit to a post and - hopefully - get a reply from the poster. Be aware though, people like me are pretty forgetful and don’t always check their notifications. That little lightning mark at the top of my dash is always at 99+ and pretty roundly ignored on the daily. Still, other people can also read the reply part and sometimes you’ll get entire discussions in there as people respond.
Be aware that all three of these methods are viewable to everyone. Anyone who sees the post can click on the notes and the tags, comments and replys will pop up for them. These aren’t for private conversations. They’re three ways to interact with posts publicly.
Private communication will be for another post. So - you ready to test it out? Use this post as your free trial and get some social interaction practice going on! Once you’re comfortable you can branch out and there you go. Social times for everyone (that wants it)!
#tumblr#new to tumblr#tumblr guidelines#how to tumblr#tumblr newbies#how do i tumblr#and all the other wonderful ways you the fine viewer can get your interactions on#and settle into making a place for yourself in the tumblr wilderness#have at!#okay to reblog#please do#pass it along
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I had my profile picture revoked for trying to post Robert Mapplethorpe photos, which very clearly should be allowed under the new tumblr guidelines. And yes I am FUCKING LIVID.
Tumblr allegedly allows nude art now, but I guess has the same censorship standards as a reactionary Republican in 1989. The last post I had censored before I gave up didn't even have an embedded image, just a link to THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO's online archive.
I am so fucking pissed. I see werewolves knotting and twinks fisting and goddamn ahegao on this site practically single day. God forbid, I post a famous photograph by a historically significant artist in a mainstream collection BELOW A SCREENSHOT OF THE NEW GUIDELINES WITH THE RELEVANT PASSAGES HIGHLIGHTED.
It's Robert Mapplethorpe, not Sean Cody. For fucks's sake.
I've been awake for five minutes and I'm very angry.
#Also girlies I know there are other reasons Mapplethorpe is problematique so don't @ me about it#Once we're able to post his art then we can have a serious discussion about its merits and shortcomings and place in queer history#Tumblr#tumblr guidelines#post o' mine#robert mapplethorpe
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Tumblr bringing back nudity for no nut november, peak comedy 👌
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Twitter is out. DeviantArt is out. @staff now is the time to bring back tiddies and reclaim the internet!!
Reblog this if you're ready for tumblr to bring them back.
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tumblr: *flags artistic nude photo post*
me: *reads guidelines* weird my work isn't sexually explicit
*scrolls through tumblr*
tumblr: *spam bot porn blogs with phishing links*
me: 👀 Ayo! WTF?!
#tumblr#tumblr staff#staff#post#violations#guidelines#tumblr guidelines#spam#bots#photography#model#art#expressive#portrait
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Tumblr I do not wanna see tits and vaginas on clear display on my feed, please fix this problem, dear god.
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TUMBLR ARE YE ALLOWING PORN OR NOT?
Because how many times does the trending tab have softcore porn on it? REGULARLY
It's infuriating and insulting to everyone on the site. Those with sfw blogs who reblog our flag means death and shit, and to those who only use the site for porn.
DON'T SOFTLAUNCH THE 'WE'RE BEING MORE LAX WITH THE RULES' JUST STOP BEING COWARDS AND ALLOW PORN AGAIN IF YOU WANT MONEY SO BAD
@staff @support
#tumblr#tumblr rules#tumblr guidelines#tumblr staff#lesbian#hot bewbs#bewbs#big tiddy goth gf#huge tiddies#huge butt
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