#shadow ban

[corrodedbisexual]

The ultimate shadow ban survivor guide

I've seen multiple people I follow, or their mutuals affected by shadow bans lately (makes me wonder if it's @staff's attempts to fight bots going totally haywire). As someone who survived a 2-month-long shadow ban on my main this winter, I thought I'd make a post.

First step of being shadow banned: calm down and take a breath. A shadow ban is just a stupid glitch in tumblr's anti-spam system. You're not losing your blog. You're gonna need a whole lot of patience, and deal with inconveniences, but it's fixable.

Read the incredibly useful post All About Shadowban by @that-damn-girl. It outlines the symptoms quite well. The only thing I'd point out is "your original posts won’t be visible to your followers either" - afaik that doesn't happen. Everything you post and reblog will still be visible to your followers, and also they can interact with your posts - like them, reblog them, reply to them.

Just like the post says, contact support. I recommend using a different email than what your banned blog is registered to; not because your ticket won't go through (mine actually did, as I found out when they finally replied), but because you might not receive an email confirmation for your ticket (it's somehow tied to the anti-spam thing, I think), and you're going to worry and try to send more tickets, like I did.

Now wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. They are SLOW. I've seen some miraculous 1-day unbans in the #shadow ban tag, but most people, like me, wait around a month for support to reply. Those are the same guys going through thousands of bot reports every day in addition to user tickets.

If you're going to wait, might as well keep blogging. Now if this is your sideblog that's shadow banned, consider yourself lucky. Make a new temporary sideblog, use it to post your original stuff so it goes into tags (mind that it might take a few days for a new blog to start showing up in tags). Reblog everything to your shadow banned blog so you still have all content in one place and your followers see it. If it's your main that's banned, you can still do that, but there's the extra pain of not being able to reply to posts or send non-anon Asks, since that is only done from main. Might need to register a separate account for that.

Some more fun facts under readmore.

Fun fact #1

Trying to send support follow-up emails in the request confirmation email isn't going to do anything to speed up the process. But I did tweet at them using this tumblr support summoning picture by @cornmayor and offered a raccoon blood sacrifice to resolve my issue when it was like a month with no response. This is what they replied.

3 hours later I got an email that my shadowban was lifted. I honestly don't know if it was a coincidence, but I mean, this is tumblr staff. Maybe they do accept blood sacrifices.

Fun fact #2

If you're wondering why my shadow ban lasted 2 months if I got a support reply after 1 month, well. It's hard to say exactly how their ban/unban system works bc support replies exclusively with pre-written template sentences, but basically they fucked up. The first time they told me my blog has been restored, I gained pretty much all functions back, except that my posts were still not appearing in tags. Which means probably that being hidden from tags is some kind of different flag on your blog that they forgot to remove. So I had to send a follow-up ticket and wait another month.

My advice is, when they tell you it's fixed, don't take that at face value, go and check all the functions you'd lost (replies, messaging, asks, tagging, appearing in notes, getting mentioned by others).

[ask-the-toy-box]

SPECIAL EDITION FOR MY SHADOW BANNED FOLLOWERS WHO CAN'T REBLOG BLAZED POSTS

[flutterofpapillons]

My experience with a shadow ban

Like a lot of peeps I lost the ability to message, go live, reply to posts. When liking or reposting it never showed in others activity. Tags on posts didn’t show up to the wider community. I could still receive asks and send asks. It was like being in a prison peeps are starting to forget you

I sent a message to support asking for help after 2 weeks I didn’t receive any correspondence so I sent another email. I tagged the staff with “@staff” on a post as well with a few friends reblogging using the tags asking for help.

Just under one month my account has been fully restored thanks tumblr.

Be patient I know it’s hard had lots of negative thoughts but I wanted to beat the shadow ban.

I was flagged by tumblr's anti-spam control.

Your blog had been flagged by our anti-spam control. We've fully restored your account and ensure everything is working fine now. We appreciate your understanding.

This is the guide that help me through it

For those who are reading this and you are going through a shadow banned I feel your pain I really do, be patient and you will get through it.

Stay strong 💪💕

Rae

[herzloch]

please share this if you have the same feeling or made an experience like that yourself

let's unite and raise awareness! put some pressure on Tumblr!

[chao-studios]

Tumblr has lifted this blogs shadow ban!

As of this post right now I still don't see our posts in tags, however we can now be searched up again and inbox seems to be viewable again!

Hopefully the tag thing fixes itself.

[the-mew-crew]

[geminni5]

Hey I know you're on a break so it's fine if you don't answer this for a bit but what happened to your side blog??

Hey!

So I just checked and I think I have been shadow banned.

I have sent a an appeal to @support .

Hopefully they will fix the issue soon 🤞🏻

Seriously thank you so much for notifying me about it ♡

I hope you have a great day!!!

[thewramblingwebcomicreview]

I'm back!

My blog was flagged by Tumblr's automated anti-spam system. For about a month I couldn't send replies to blogs except on desktop. My messages disappeared and it was impossible to find me via search. I only discovered this when I found it suspicious that I couldn't reply to any blog except on desktop.

After learning I was experiencing a shadow ban, I put in a support ticket with Tumblr. It took a little less than 24 hours, but they did restore my account.

Being shadow banned isn't something that's ever mentioned to you. You discover the hard way when no one can see you or you can't communicate with anyone here. So if you find the ability to send or read messages suddenly gone, or that you can't leave replies, you might be shadow banned. It is either a glitch or your account was falsely flagged by an automated system. Put in a support ticket. Tumblr will eventually respond!

[ebookporn]

“Our Latin American literature has always been a committed, a responsible literature,” explained Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1973.

The great works of our countries have been written in response to a vital need, a need of the people, and therefore almost all our literature is committed. Only as an exception do some of our writers isolate themselves and become uninterested in what is happening around them; such writers are concerned with psychological or egocentric subjects and the problems of a personality out of contact with surrounding reality.1

It is the bourgeois writers, he wants to say here, who ignore the looting of their resources by the rich behemoth to the north, which then turns around and redeploys those riches on death squads and dictators. It is no surprise, then, that Asturias’s landmark novel, Mr. President, confronts its readers with similar frankness. Mr. President examines widespread corruption around a fictional Guatemalan dictator. But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.

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[daddys-dead-inside]

Help me find my mutuals!

Used to be Broken-on-the-inside and Fingerbanging-my-fears and have been shadow banned hopefully I can recover my account but this will be it

[alder-saan]

I GOT MY FIRST SHADOW BAN!

It's my first time so I'm a bit nervous lol 🤭🤭🤭

[colorsofmyseason]

I'M BACK FROM MY SHADOW BAN BITCHES!!!

And yes, thankfully it's a glitch and not because I slandered Ben White's ass :)

[alanshemper]

Oh great. Now 'social features' have been disabled for my main account as well. What the hell??

[chao-studios]

I think I finally solved why the blogs been breaking down

I'm like 90% for some reason were shadow banned somehow. I don't have anything in settings on that blocks visibility, yet;

The blog can't be found on Tumblr Search (but can on Google)

In-blog search no longer functions

Messages sent to us are hidden

I've sent a support ticket to Tumblr and im praying its not ignored but yeah, this is the only thing I can think of for why the blog has suddenly been hidden from view.

I'm not sure at all why we would get shadow banned, I don't think we've ever posted something nsfw or anything. It looks like the last time we ever had an ask we could see was back in July.

Just crossing fingers support helps!

~Roaxes

[csillascst]

Soooo.. I just made a new account on tumblr.. And i couldn't do comment and anything

I guess this is called shadowban

Wonder if it changed..

[everydayclutter]

Besties, this is me, Mirano (@colorsofmyseason). I got shadowbanned for absolutely no reason (except if they count slandering Ben White's flat ass a good enough reason to ban me, which is totally fair). But yeah in the meantime until I get my ban lifted I'd be here and if you're wishing to DM or tag me please do that to this blog, thanks 😭😭😭

cc: @butterflyliverpoolkopite @incelhugochavez @sophpisticated @coffeebreakcreations @littlechillis @barbiegirlmartin @indomie-fried-noodle @gxtzeizm @cinnamonstroll @skyenthusiast and anyone else I cannot recall because I'm so upset right now