Tumblr was deemed too full of inappropriate content to be allowed to be downloaded from the app store.
It has this “inappropriate” problem because of rampant porn ad bot accounts. The old solutions were bots to detect image sets with nsfw content, the automatically enabled safe mode, tag filtering for mobile, and wide takedowns of nsfw bots based on words used (that’s why their messages are full of numbers and symbols, to evade this)
Tumblr released their own bot supposedly capable of wiping the ad bots, but it’s taking down many popular blogs, possibly due to sheer amounts of posting or sheer amounts of ad bots in their notes. This bot was likely rushed to be put out.
You are more likely to be accidentally flagged if you post external links, as well. If your acct is taken down you CAN get it back, but it’s a pain. E-mail tumblr support for help with this. It takes down side blogs with the main ones.
I’ll be halting posts for about a week or until this problem is fixed.
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’treport 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.
My page is still gonna be under light maintenance for a while.
I’ve decided that I’m gonna redo not just my ships and shows list but also reorganize my edits page- which will include some purging of some and adding shows i’ll be doing for the next while since some will be ending or on hiatus (though queen sugar and power gifs will remain as usual for here and the other blogs) and others starting up or returning. Just wanted y’all to know. Writing is also still happening so while I’m open for request on both fronts. Writing request may take precedent while i’m working on my blog set up.
Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing they’re doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.
If that doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).
There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. It’s described in the link, but if you’re still not sure about it, please ask me and I’ll guide you through how to turn all this off.
This is my wake-up call. I’ll be locking down my devices and scaling back what I put through the big Google machine, which means you may see less of me across social media. I’m going to keep researching this, but it may mean in order to keep the rights to my creative work, I’ll have to keep it out of Google’s hands. And that may take some doing.
Duckduckgo is a nontracking search engine….may be worth a try.
So according to the article there is an opt out for this. Instructions are I the last paragraph. I’m on mobile so I’ll edit this more later. EDITED TO INCLUDE OPT OUT INSTRUCTIONS
To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page, and uncheck the box next to “Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services.“ You can also delete past activity from your account.
ok this has become a somewhat popular post, and I just want to add on because I realise this just says about dating, but it extends to friendships too. just be aware of this and remind the person of their worth, yeah? Even if it’s just a friend and not a partner
choking on water is the worst because how do you stop choking? drink something? well ive got some bad news for you
Lean your head forward, preferably to knee level, and let the water kind of drain out of your mouth. When your are able to, take deep slow breaths. No heimlich maneuver or physical assists from somebody else should be used beyond this, otherwise you could vomit and escalate the issue. Its about keeping the larynx open. Hopefully this helps.
Reblog to fucking save a life.
Adding to what systematicsalvation said: PLEASE DO NOT I repeat DO NOT EVER USE THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER, no matter how trained you are. The most recent teaching is that the heimlich maneuver carries serious risk of rupturing organs and causing internal bleeding that people don’t notice until it’s too late. The replacement for a choking first aid technique is now 5 sharp strikes using the heel of your palm to the choking person’s back, followed by 5 compressions (almost as though you’re doing CPR) of the solar plexus. But don’t just take it from me. Take a proper first aid course. Save a life.
Just Sha 