#I also helped get an animal abuse subreddit banned by joining a mass-report of its users | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

theres-whump-in-that-nebula · 9 months ago

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oooohhh I found some blogs that need ~reporting~

Of course that crowd would have a bunch of people with 88 in their username. Of course they fucking would.

(For context: I enjoy “cleaning” the internet. I’ll sometimes go through tags where fascists, bigots, child predators, etc. are known to dwell. I look for dogwhistles; and if I find dogwhistles, I go deep into the blog to make sure it’s actually what I think it is. I’ll usually find one bad blog, then go into who liked their posts, which usually uncovers a bunch of others. I block all of them so I have their usernames saved in my blocklist, then, one-by-one, I report them in detail for whatever evil shit they’re doing.)

(Don’t worry; I’d never go after someone for writing fiction. Look at my blog for Christ’s sake.)

#I’m not gonna say where I go/have gone on Tumblr but I have reported some doozies #like blatantly illegal and evil activity disguised with a mixture of self-censorship techniques #One of the tags which I frequently reported can no longer be found on Tumblr because the developers removed it from search #which doesn’t mean the problem is gone; it’s just harder to access (which is excellent!)#I also helped get an animal abuse subreddit banned by joining a mass-report of its users #I’ve been doing this for about four years now. It’s one of my more productive hobbies #Yeah I’ve seen some shit #It’s not something I do for fun; it’s more of a compulsion actually

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