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 wife and I were were talking the other day and, I don’t remember what we were even talking about, but the idea came up that we would need an oreo for. I joked about getting one from my secret stash. This is where she made her mistake. She said “oh right, like you could have an Oreo stash without me knowing about it.”
I’m sorry?
That’s a challenge.
Oreos aquired.
I’m going to hide them in a super simple place at first
But be sure to follow this post while I chronicle all the ways and places I hide them and also how I plan on taunting her with cookies while she can’t find the package
She is out of the house for a moment so it’s time to enjoy a few cookies
And find a new hiding spot
Hehehe
They up there
Normally I’m a Oreos with milk kinda guy, but I’ll take coffee if coffee is available
Now to hide them right under her nose
She never looks under the TV for anything. Tonight when we are watching Halloween Wars I’ll have a big dopey grin on my face
Time to up the stakes. It was fun having em here and hiding them around her while she didn’t know what was happening. Bit now it’s time for her to be in on the game she is playing
Four cookies packed in her lunch. Game on
I’ve been cleaning house today and feeling like I’ve done a pretty good job. Time to reward myself with some delicious Oreos
Aaaaand put them where she would never find them in a million years
🙂
Got up early this morning and helped pack everyone’s lunch. Pulling a damn Oprah over here
You get some cookies! You get some cookies! Everyone gets cookies!
Then a devious idea struck me…
I put the remaining Oreos in a baggie to hide by themselves. Now to “hide” the package where it will probably be found…
And pin the actual stash to the inside of the closet wall
If you two weren’t already married I’d beg you to marry her because you two are obviously perfect for each other and I love this post with all my heart
This guy’s dopey grin at his success at hiding oreos is exactly what I’m here for
You like that eh? Well you are going to love today’s installment
Look at that. So sad. So few Oreos left
Guess I’ll just pin em right to the middle of the wall in the middle of the living room. She’ll never find em there
Oh, guess I should put this back up
Bwa ha ha ha! You guys! You guys don’t understand! I was planning on doing this and when I got home and looked at it I was like “aww, it’s too thin. They won’t fit.” I even TOLD my wife this and how I was disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to hide them back there.
But then I looked again. They dooooo
Thank you all so much for the love. I knew y’all would like this, but I had no idea you would like it THIS MUCH. People calling us “goals” and stuff… Man…. It’s kinda hard to take in ya know? Anyways: if this post gets Over 9000™ before I get off work today I will pick up Halloween Oreos on my way home and this will not stop
Seriously. Women say that and I just look at them like?… 🤔🤔🤔
Because it is?
I’ve been natural for almost 4 years and 90% of the time, I wish I could shave my head.
Every week after I wash my hair and decide I can’t be bothered to do a twistout and wake up to the realest shrinkage the next day and be standing in the mirror like ‘how ima style this’
😭 my hair is almost waist length and I still wake up looking like Florida Evans (I love her but goddamn, the shrinkage is mad disrespectful)
I just did my hair last night and was thinking about this post, like got damn this shit is hard and then I get criticized for protective styles…. Like DO YOU WANT TO DO MY HAIR BECAUSE I DONT!
I hate those “Why does your hair look like that?”, “You should do THIS to your hair” comments because last time I check nobody is in the bathroom with me when I’m detangling and steaming my hair
I feel like natural haired women are held up to a ridiculous standard by other naturals. Like, we have to always think positively of our hair and if we vocalize our frustration with our hair, they drag us for filth. Detangling is a headache, deep conditioning gets on my nerves and every wash day I must wake up before 9 because any time after that, I’m sure my hair will not dry till half of the next day is gone. I love my hair but shit it’s so much work.
Somebody finally said it!!!
But it’s always someone with a loose ass curl pattern or that can afford regular hair appointments with the attitude that anyone not constantly praising and loving up their hair is in the wrong. It takes me half a day to put braids in my hair and i work full time so it usually takes me a couple days to fully finish. It became a running thing at work to talk about how long it would take me when i finished and yet not a damn one volunteered to do them for me. Every time i cut my hair someone is telling me i shouldn’t and that my hair is so nice, and yet they not doing no upkeep, products are expensive and making my own is time consuming, but minding ya business is free and easily accessible.
3c/4a, close to tailbone length. I have fought off the desire to cut it off or give in to relaxing again so many times it’s not funny. Detangling takes me an entire day.
Natural hair aint easy. And people get mad if you want a break and to just flat iron it or wear some braids or something– or worse, compare you to natural women and act like you’re not brave enough to do what they are while you stare into the camera like on The Office.
There are people who literally can do their hair in 1-3 hours max. And I thought I could be like that if I just keep at it. No matter what I do, I can’t get into that time range. Washing, deep conditioning, styling and some of us pre-poo. These things are time consuming even if you have such a simple regimen…it also doesnt help that I have finer hair strands. And honestly the longer one’s hair get the longer the wash day. The easy wash/style days might only apply to looser hair naturals.
How long have you been natural and how long is your hair?
I went from 4 hours to 2 because I steam my hair.
I’ve been natural for some time but I started really taking care of my hair last year around late August early September. I had some set backs (heat damaged) and have been slowly cutting it off…almost all of it is gone by now. But between dealing with my scalp (dryness and itchiness) and my hair. I honestly don’t know what to do. I was told (not by a professional though) that steaming isnt good for high porosity hair…but I wonder if I should try it. Maybe steaming migjt help with my dryness, frizzy, and breakage from the single stand knots and tangles that my hair loves to give me.
Please try steaming your hair. I’ve been steaming my hair for almost a year and I wish I did it sooner because my hair would be down to my ankles by now if I knew better.
Oohhh can you post your wash day routine and your mid-week refresh routine if you have one?
I swear to god all I do is wash my hair every 4-7 days (depending how busy I am)- I prepoo with conditioner and any cheap oil (olive or coconut) then I shampoo because I like a clean, fresh scalp because I use a growth oil every day and I don’t wanna clog up my scalp. Then I come out of the shower, apply a deep conditioner and I use a traveling mini clothes steamer and I deep condition and detangle with a brush (if I finger detangle, I might as well chop off my hair because it’s pointless to me and for my hair) and then I get back into the shower and rinse! That’s it. Since I do wash n go’s – I just apply hair milk on WET hair (not damp, not semi air dried. WET) and follow up with a gel. I coat my strands with the same growth oil that I use cuz it’s good for preventing breakage.
That’s it. I don’t refresh my hair at all because my hair is annoying af and it will start tangling and dreading after 5 days of not being washed, no matter what. I can refresh my hair all I want to but it will still turn into a matted and tangled mess so that’s why I have to do the whole washing and detangling mess.
“When I was growing up, I was trying to make a connection between the life I saw and the life I lived. There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. This is one of them.” –James Baldwin.
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