#shadowban

[surprisebitch]

i think i've seen this film before..

[catfindr]

[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).

[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

[pillnus]

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Being followed by shadowbanned people is so funny because you'll see the number for your notifications going up, go to check, see no new notifications, and just think to yourself "damn, the ghosts thought I posted a banger."

[dangerousbride]

I’M OUT OF TUMBLR JAIL Y’ALL 😭🎉

For future reference and in case you get this shadowban glitch too, just know that I sent support a ticket on october 29 and they replied that ticked today, november 18. I got no email confirmation for the ticket (which made me send 3 other tickets because I thought they weren’t getting them... but they did!! 😩😂). So if it ever happens to you, you just have to send a ticket and be patient 😌

[frankieglam]

So this happened on my Instagram!

If you're not following me over on Instagram I'd really appreciate it if you did!

[candy616]

I'VE BEEN RELEASED 🎉

Finally, I got this:

Your blog was flagged by our automated anti-spam controls, and we have reviewed and restored your blog.

AND THEY DIDN'T RESPOND UNTIL I POST ON REDDIT HERE

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrr

Guys, if you ever get flagged as spam or anything like that, first file a support ticket and then immediately post to Reddit. They will have your blog back in a matter of hours!

If I had known this, I would not have suffered for a whole month! 😤😡

Asks and posts from me are coming soon! 💖💖

[sztupy]

Eltűnt a blogszimról az üzenetküldés lehetősége

Állítólag ez az egyik jele annak, hogy shadowbannolt a tumbli!

Aki látja ezt írjon! (főleg a lányok!)

[catastrxblues]

one month shadowban anniversary to this blog

@staff hi it wouldn’t hurt to lift the shadowban off of innocent blogs please

[gentleserpent]

I literally wanna cry because of this fucking shadowban

Tumblr support didn't do shit to help

[lidensword]

I noticed that some of my mutuals have been shadowbanned :(

At least, that's my guess, because I do not receive the notif that they have reblogged/liked my post, but it turns out they actually did. Also, their posts don't show up in the tags! I don't know why Tumblr does that, but that's not the first time I see this situation...

Please, check if you have been shadowbanned because Tumblr sometimes is an illogical little freak who does things without reason!!

If you are indeed in this situation, I suggest you read this post and see if it can help you fix it!

[thtfailedartist]

I'M FINALLY UNSHADOWBANNED‼️‼️

[satureja13]

Just in case you wondered where we’ve been. Tumblr cut us off - for almost 3 weeks! We could not comment or use the chat, couldn’t be found in the search and under our tags, and the worst, you could not see our likes :,( But!

We are finally back! And all we got was an email where they said it was a glitch on their side... really! That’s so poor, tumblr! So long without a response on such a serious matter! But I won’t rant any longer, I’m just so happy right now - oh my!

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