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Shadowbanning, Termination, & (Hopefully Not) You

With the past month and a half, my blog was shadowbanned, terminated, and finally reinstated. It wasn't exactly a fun experience, so I wanted to put together what I learned to help others figure out next steps.

What is "shadowbanning"?

What we refer to as "shadowbanning" is actually a spam mitigation tool. If you're shadowbanned, you won't be able to:

DM anyone (in fact the DM tab will disappear from your app and will not load in a browser)

Reply to anything (even your own posts)

Send asks (tumblr will tell you they went through, but they won't arrive until the shadowban is resolved)

View your posts in the tags or in search

See your reblogs and likes in the notes

Notifications for these actions will also be suppressed. The person that you reblogged or liked from will get a ghost notification instead. The number goes up but then there's no new notification when you check.

And this makes sense! None of us want spam accounts clogging up the notes or the tags with malicious links. However, it can happen to real people. And when it does, it's most often caused by glitches.

You will not receive any notice or warning that this has happened. The only way you'll know is by these functions either disappearing and/or consistently giving you errors. The only thing you can do is put in a ticket via Support Form and wait. Reports over on reddit indicate a 6 month average wait to hear back on shadowbans prior to the layoffs. It seems likely longer now, but you still have access to your blog and followers can still see you from their dashboards. (If you were using a VPN and got shadowbanned, you'll probably want to stop. More on that at the end.)

Termination

Most of the recent reports from people who've had their blogs terminated (myself included) received no warning beforehand and no email notice after. This is because it was an automated action.

If your account has been terminated, you'll get a seemingly random log-in error message. If you attempt to log in, you'll be immediately prompted to change your password. Once you finally get logged in, you'll get an ominous screen with the old shade of tumblr blue telling you that your account has been terminated.

Don't panic. Your main blog gets locked up and will display as deactivated, but it is still recoverable. (Your sideblogs will appear to stay active but inaccessible.) Staff can reinstate your account, you just have to put in a ticket.

Note: It does sound like accounts that break TOS and are terminated are still receiving ban emails. I have not experienced this, so I cannot speak to how much of this applies there.

Fill out the Support Form

If you are shadowbanned or your account is wrongfully terminated, you need to fill out the Support Form. However, there are some complications to that...

Those of us who've been terminated have found that:

You will not get a confirmation email if you fill out the form for Terminated Account

You will not get a confirmation email if you fill out the support form using the email address on file for your terminated account

To be clear: if you fill out the form for the accurate reason with the correct email address as instructed, you will land on a webpage telling you to expect an email, but it will not arrive. However, it's very likely the form actually goes through. Start with a ticket for Terminated Account under the correct email address and see if you get a confirmation. Try this exactly once.

If you don't get a confirmation email and you're feeling anxious, you might want to try with a different email address (one completely unassociated with your tumblr account) for Account Access. Include your actual email address for your account in the body of the email and mention that you tried to fill it out before but received no confirmation. Again, it's very likely the form went through with the first method, so try this method exactly once.

Don't fill out the form more than twice, and don't put in multiple tickets after getting a confirmation email. This may result in your ticket being marked as spam. Once you have a confirmation email, the only thing to do is sit tight and wait for a response. Support is still replying to tickets.

VPNs

Now we're getting to the why: most of the people reporting being shadowbanned or terminated in the last week have also reported using a VPN (notably Proton for a few of us). VPNs are not against TOS, but automated webtools can't always distinguish bad actors from legitimate users if both are routing traffic through the same place.

Given how short-staffed tumblr is at the moment, I would recommend split-tunneling to exclude tumblr from your VPN. This should allow you to keep the rest of your internet surfing private, while hopefully avoiding having your account suppressed or locked. (No guarantees, it could always happen for other reasons.)

If your VPN can exclude based on URL or app, you're golden. If you need tumblr's IP addresses, then this is what I found:

66.6.44.4 is listed in the Help Documentation

However, an IP address for Automattic 192.0.77.40 is what pings

Ultimately, it's going to be up to you to weigh your privacy while using tumblr vs retaining access to your blog.

Xitter and Reddit

TumblrSupport over on Xitter now is officially unmonitored. The account occasionally replies to redirect people to fill out the Support Form but that's about it. The TumblrHelp subreddit appears to be entirely impacted users now as well. Obviously posting there was helpful in piecing together what happened, and it doesn't hurt to post in either place, but the Support Form is the best bet at this point. Fill it out first.

I know it feels isolating to have this happen, but these things tend to happen in waves so you are likely not the only one dealing with it. It'll get resolved, just give it time.

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Who Gave Satan the Authority to Become the God of this World?

By Author Eli Kittim

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Because God supposedly had given him dominion over the earth, most people assume that Adam surrendered his authority to Satan after his transgression, and therefore allowed the latter to become the god of this world. But in order for this particular *dominion theory* to work, it must impinge on *divinity* itself. However, Adam was a created being. He was not a god and could never be understood as a god in any sense of the word. The fundamental problem with the classical view is twofold. First, a mere mortal, such as Adam, does not have authority over the earth. Second, Adam doesn’t have any *divinity* to give away, much less any “divine” dominion over the earth. A close reading of Gen. 1.26 reveals that the dominion God gave to Adam was limited to the animals and creatures of the earth. In other words, Adam was not “the god of this world” (cf. 2 Cor. 4.4); God was! Adam was simply placed on earth “to till it and keep it” (Gen. 2.15). By contrast, only Christ is said to have “all authority . . . on earth” (Mt. 28.18).

What is more, Adam had not yet eaten from “the tree of life” (Gen. 3.22, 24) at the time of his transgression. So, given that Adam was a created being who was not even immortal, much less a god, how could Satan *become* the “god” of this world by taking this divinity from Adam? It’s a logical impossibility; a logical fallacy, if you will. Adam, by default, is not a divine being and therefore cannot, by definition, surrender godhood to Satan. It is both logically and ontologically impossible!

So the question remains, how then did Satan become the god of this world? Who gave him the title deed to the earth, so to speak? The only person who has full authority over the earth, and who is truly a god, is the only one who can surrender this right to Satan. And this is in fact conceivable both from a logical and an ontological perspective. Thus, by the process of elimination, the only person capable of surrendering his divine authority over the earth is none other than Christ! Without a doubt, this relinquishment would temporarily make Satan the god of this world.

This, of course, would imply that Adam could not have been anyone else but Christ. And it would help explain why “God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness’ “ (Gen. 1.26). It would further imply that although the first human was created, nevertheless God breathed his own divine Spirit into him and gave him “the breath of life” (Gen. 2.7). If Christ was Adam, it would also help explain why he would have to die to pay for the sins of the world. This view would also help clarify how the transgression of one man could possibly spread biologically to his posterity, which would otherwise be inexplicable.

I’m by no means espousing the “Adam–God doctrine” of Brigham Young (Mormonism). This is a totally fictitious and bogus account based on UFOs and aliens. I do not accept this LDS *account* at all.

But why does Christ say in Rev. 22.13 (NIV) that he’s “the first and the last”?:

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First

and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

We know why he is the last. But how exactly is he the first? In fact, Heb. 1.6 calls Christ “the Firstborn” (πρωτότοκον). Let us review some key Biblical points. Whereas Adam was made in the image of God, Christ is said to be “the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1.15). Both Adam and Christ are said to have dominion over the earth. Both are givers of life (1 Cor. 15.45 NIV):

The first man Adam became

a living being; the last Adam, a life-giving

spirit.

Both became men. Both are called “son of God” (Lk 3.37; 1 Jn 5.10). Both were pure and holy. Both were tested by Satan. One suffered in the Garden of Eden, the other in the Garden of Gethsemane. There are far more similarities than differences. And the Biblical passages make much more sense when understood from this point of view than from the classical one. If humankind is made in the image of Christ, who was the first Man, then this special creation would refute the conclusion of evolutionary science that Adam was not a historical person. In fact, the classical perspective makes no sense whatsoever. It’s neither logically nor ontologically feasible, or even possible, that a mere mortal, who was not god, surrendered both his authority and divinity to Satan, who subsequently became the god of this world. That’s a contradiction in terms. It’s like talking about a married bachelor or a squared circle. It can never happen in any possible world!

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Why is it that both Jesus and Satan are called the “Morningstar”?

By Author Eli Kittim

In his essay, “Why is Jesus Called the ‘Morning Star’?”, author Randy Alcorn explains:

the name Morning Star is not tainted—it is

Satan who is tainted. Obviously this is the

case, or Morning Star wouldn't be used of

Christ.

Isaiah 14.12 uses the Hebrew term הֵילֵ֣ל (helel), meaning “a shining one,” to describe the great fall from heaven (Lk 10.18) of an angel who is called “ben shachar” (son of dawn or son of the morning), who is said to have weakened the nations (cf. Ezek. 28.13-17). In Christianity, this is considered to be a reference to Satan, the morning star, who at his creation possessed both great virtue and beauty but, due to pride (or ego), subsequently rebelled against God. The Septuagint (aka LXX), an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, renders Isa. 14.12 as follows:

πῶς ἐξέπεσεν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὁ

ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωΐ ἀνατέλλων;

The Septuagint renders the Hebrew helel (Morningstar/Venus) as ἑωσφόρος (from ἕως [“dawn”] +‎ φόρος [“bearing” or “carrying”] cf. 1 Sam. 30.17; Job 3.9; Ps. 110.3 LXX). This is obviously a reference to Satan’s original status, prior to his rebellion, as “the anointed cherub” (Ezek. 28.14 KJV). Moreover, Job 38.7 suggests that angels were created before the Big Bang and were actually present to celebrate God’s creation of the universe. In fact, all the angels prior to the creation of the world were called “Morningstars” (Job 38.4-7):

Where wast thou when I laid the

foundations of the earth? . . . When the

morning stars sang together, and

all the sons of God shouted for joy . . .

Quite appropriately, the Septuagint (Job 38.7) calls these angels (ἄγγελοί) stars (ἄστρα). Interestingly enough, Jesus Christ also calls himself ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ λαμπρός ὁ πρωϊνός (the bright and morning star) in Rev. 22.16. And in Rev. 2.28 Jesus promises to give the overcomers τὸν ἀστέρα τὸν πρωϊνόν (“the morning star”). What is more, Second Peter 1.19 describes regeneration or rebirth in Christ as a process in which “the morning star rises in your hearts” (NKJV). In this verse, the term Morningstar is referring to Jesus as the φωσφόρος (light-bringing; cf. John 1.4; 8.12)!

Therefore, by definition, the term Morningstar refers to a state of purity and holiness. So, it can no longer apply to Satan except insofar as it refers to his original status at the time of creation. Hence why the term Morningstar is used in the Bible as a reference to both Satan and Christ.

But there is a twist in the tale. When the King James Version of 1611 translated the Hebrew term hêylêl (Morningstar) into English, instead of using the Hebrew text or the Greek Septuagint, it used the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible. However, in Latin, the term Morningstar (Venus) is “Lucifer.” That’s how the word Lucifer entered our Bible and became part of Christian folklore. But because Jesus is also called “the bright Morning Star,” in Revelation 22.16, this Latin translation introduced a semantic confusion. Given that the term “Lucifer” is inextricably linked with Satan, this Latin version of Morningstar corrupted the original meaning of the term. That’s why many modern Bible versions have gone back to using the original Hebrew term “Morningstar” or “daystar” as opposed to the Latin-based “Lucifer.” The reason is obvious. The pejorative term Lucifer can neither technically refer to Jesus nor to Satan, who is no longer a morning star!

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