deanscarlett:

captainevans:

angryschnauzer:

Something that i’ve seen happening in my notifications this week is a new kind of porn blog interacting with my posts, and i want to explain WHY its so important to block them.

In the past all that would happen if a porn blog would follow you is just that, they’d follow you. It was all to do with google algorithyms where if a porn blog was shown as ‘linked’ or following a legitimate site/blog then it increased the place they came in the google searches. Great if you are one of those scam websites that gets people to click on links that either plant malware or are just shady as fuck. 
Porn blogs were also sometimes shut down without warning so all the scammers hard work was over and gone. Good for us, not good for them.
Most of these blogs were just stolen gifs/videos from other porn blogs anyway. If you thought gif stealing was bad/rife in the geek/nerd fandoms, just have a peep at the porn blogs.

Well a lot of the search engines etc caught onto this and built controls into their software, so they found a new way of getting (or at least trying to get) people to click on links to take them off of the tumblr site. This is by finding a random post from a legitimate blogger, which could be about anything, and either deleting the entire content of the post and adding in some ridiculous comment like ‘For more fun follow this link’ with a hyperlink off of tumblr, or if its a photo that in any way is either fun/a meme/or a little nsfw, they keep that in place and just add their link like above. Scroll down their blog and literally every single post will be a reblog and have exactly the same comment on, getting you to click and take you off site.

What does this matter i hear you ask? Well, when it comes to reporting a post, it helps to confuse the tumblr bots/staff as to what’s being reported… the comment or the original post? This means that when a bunch of posts are reported, they are all coming from different originators, this will make tumblr staff’s life even harder, and legitimate blogs are at risk of someone hitting ‘deactivate blog’ in the admin settings, meaning YOU COULD LOOSE YOUR ENTIRE BLOG BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE PORN BOT REBLOGGED FROM YOU.

So don’t ignore this kind of thing, if you see one of these stupid reblogs (the bots very rarely actually follow you anymore), BLOCK THEM RIGHT THERE AND THEN. 

heads up, this is happening again and it’s affecting gif/graphic makers that post links to their sources in their captions. don’t report porn bot reblogs, just block and if you make content, do not link to anything outside of tumblr.

OP, you give some good advice, BUT, you are mixing up a couple of things.

Here’s how you procede when a pr0n blog follows you, likes a post, or reblogs a post.

If they follow you / like a post (either one you created, or that you reblogged from someone else. You simply report the blog for SPAM  (reporting for sensitive content does not work/count because TECHNICALLY, NSFW content IS allowed in this website.

You go to the blog in question and click the little buddy icon (red circle)

You see there’s a “Report option”, you click that and you’ll see “Report Spam”, in addition, you’ll see under that the option to “Flag & Report”. You click that. (The screenshot is from a pr0n website that I’m waiting tumblr to remove a post of mine, hence why in the options it says “Unblock” instead of “Block”

Now, when they REBLOG form you, there’s 2 scenarios

Scenario 1:

You are not the original poster of that reblog, you contact the original poster and send them the link, then you follow the steps I mentioned above (report for spam).

Scenario 2:

You ARE the original poster, then you report THE POST ITSELF.

First you visit the post in question and hit the little arrow (the same one you click/tap when you want to send a post to someone in a chat), and you’ll see the option to report, you tap/click that one. (I removed the icons and blog URLs for privacy reasons)

It will bring you to this next window, where you select “report something else” and hit continue:

Which gives you the following, where you select “misattribution violation”:

Once you click that, it’s gonna ask you “Is it your work that’s being misattributed, or that’s missing an attribution?”

You click YES.

Next it’s gonna ask you “Did you originally post this work on Tumblr, or somewhere else?” Select “I posted it on Tumblr”.

Next is gonna ask you: 

“Which of the following best describes your issue?”

• Someone reposted it instead of reblogging it
• Someone reblogged it and injected a link back to their own blog

You select the second option, which will bring you to this window, where you gotta fill the URL of YOUR original post (red square, in the blue square, your email address will already be there, I cropped mine out for privacy). You hit the CAPTCHA thing, and then simply click “Submit and Block”

It’s important to remember to ALWAYS report the BLOG and not the post, UNLESS you are the original poster.

Spread the words, guys, because a lot of people don’t know how to proceed when a post of theirs gets hijacked by pr0n blogs.