#do something tumblr

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Really @staff @staffs-secret-blog? You're recommending me spam p*rn in a tag I follow? When people I know try to use the mature feature that YOU ADDED and their posts get bonked?

Do something about this spam bot problem, and stop bonking people for using tags properly.

[biggsodorcitystories]

Pr0nBot Hoes - Gotta Block 'Em All!

Joke Art - Serious Vent underneath. Please read.

🎵(Pr0nBot Hoes, gotta block em aaaaall)

We're sick of yooou!

We know that you're all fake tooo!

Follow me, I'll just block you:

Pr0nBot Hoes!🎵

Silliness aside, this infestation (and I can't think of a better term) of bot accounts headed by a photo of an artificially enhanced woman and a reference to OnlyFans is starting to take the mickey.

I joined Tumblr in November to create an alternative/backup home for my art after Deviantart's pandering to unregulated AI "art" gave me concerns as to its future. I have honestly enjoyed my time here so far. I have connected with current friends, made a surprising number of new ones, and I have come across some phenomenal TTTE and TUGS fans.

But, when December came, I started getting one or two new follower notifications every day. Like I have seen others say, new followers should be - and usually are - a cause of excitement and prompt you to go to your account to look at what kind of follower you've netted. To find an obvious bot account, and a pr0nbot at that, is extremely disheartening. To get private messages from other bot accounts trying to invite me to join clearly adult dating sites (for the record, I'm in my 30s and by no means innocent, but the account will not have bothered to find this out before inviting me to connect with BBWs) is annoying. To get multiple incidents of both types of bot account EVERY. SINGLE. DAY?! To be frank, that's cause for concern as to the future of this site.

Tumblr: With so many people becoming disheartened by Deviantart and Twitter, you have a potentially unique opportunity to put your best foot forward. You could present yourself as the ideal alternative to these juggernaut websites that are letting their users down, as a true community to share their content, a new, forever home...

But how is that going to happen when you're riddled with parasitic pr0nbot accounts that harrass your userbase daily, while you seem to sit back and do nothing about them?

[42bakery]

Bots don't even try to write correctly. At this point they just hit the keyboard, put your name and send it

[skania]

Okay how are the annoying porn bots even finding this blog. I literally only reblog stuff nowadays and when I do post something of my own, it's for a rarepair so how. How are they finding me and following me 🤡

[sweetpyxels]

The porn bot situation gets ridicolous..how can it message me to my cc finds blog when only those who follow can message me there and asks are turned off...I am so sick of blocking 4-5 pornbots a day

[thewramblingwebcomicreview]

I’m totally okay with my timeline here being flooded with posts about vanilla extract. *Cough* @karlobears *Cough*

What I actually would like LESS of is the spambots. Please, Tumblr.

In 12 years on Twitter I’ve not had this problem. It’s definitely not a problem on Mastodon. It IS a problem on Twitch, but there are community tools for those. Tumblr has been something else in the last few months.

Time for another report, and block party. *sigh*

[hyrules-warrior]

Reporting and blocking tumblr porn bot followers has become a full time job.

[bwillettsketches]

Blocking spambots every day makes Tumblr the worst version of Harvest Moon

[bihansthot]

This fucking website, I absolutely love it when posts don’t show up in the tags. Ugh. So fucking annoying. I guess old school like and reblog if you see it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Here’s a cute polar bear in the meantime

Edit: I complained long enough and it showed up 🙄

[seenthisepisode]

no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[biggsodorcitystories]

@staff

I joined Tumblr as a backup for my Deviantart and I was honestly really enjoying my experience

But my Deviantart never got infested with porn-bot accounts to the extent that I and many others have to block and report several EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!

Given that you like to jump on everything else immediately, can you tell us how you're planning to deal with the infestation that you've been suffering for the last two months? It is getting worse.

[bluebeesknees]

They’re being obnoxious at work 💙

[krasnyel]

regular ascot-loving-mystery-solving family

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[yamisnuffles]

Give me shelter.