#don't look at this Tumblr bot

[churchofpossum]

Merry Christmas!

Supporters voted for a thing and I was happy to oblige XD

[keferon]

The tac net crash chapter is one of my favorites so far~

Ah and. Guess what. I just discovered that including this post, I made 50 pieces of fanart for Mistakes on mistakes until.. I’m so sane and normal about this story can you tell👍

[dragonpyre]

Hey guys, if you're blog looks like this

It doesn't matter if you have anything in your likes. You will be getting reported and blocked by people for thinking your a bot. This is the blogging website. You HAVE to reblog stuff

[rkgknno]

im lowkey embarrassed but also not at all

[ateakettle]

porn bots piss me off so bad let me scroll through my tags in PEACE

[simdertalia]

Hello everybody! I've seen some people saying they don't know how to edit their page, and as a result a lot of blogs that are blank are being blocked & reported as bot pages, or labeled as adult pages (because people are reporting them incorrectly. Actual spam/bot pages should be reported as spam, not adult content, even though some of them contain adult content). After so many reports, I think that a blog will automatically be labeled as such and the user has to contact Tumblr support to change it back.

I've taken some screenshots on my own page with some notes/edits, posted above, to help anyone who wants a quick tutorial on personalizing your page. When you make the edits to your page, remember to click on the blue save button in the top left editing area.

It's quite easy, you go to your main blog page and click on the painting palette symbol. The next thing that comes up is a page with an editing area, I've added notes to the sections that should be edited, the header is a good idea to edit also, but it is mainly ✨your description and avatar,✨ as both helps others separate your account from bot accounts that also have an avatar (often blank, or images of women models) and something in the description (sometimes this is empty, sometimes it is"their name" sometimes a ton of emojis, it varies). Some bot accounts even have the word "sim" in their handle, so the community can't totally rely on a username for indication with that word in it, either (unless it specifically says "simblr" or "ts4" in the handle).

Anyway, the influx of bots has caused some annoying problems for us all here, I made another post about that here, with links to more information. The best way to avoid these issues is to make sure your blog is personalized.

Here is a tag on my page for some free icons if you'd like to grab something cute & quick, or if there is something specific you would like, I'm more than happy to make one for you, so just send me a DM or Ask 💗

If I have blocked your blog by mistake, you can send an Ask to my CC finds sideblog linked at the top of my page, and I am also available on Ko-Fi and Instagram where you can send me a message, I will be glad to fix it right away.

And if you've got a blog that you are painstakingly sifting through your new follows due to all the blank ones, feel free to reblog for your followers 💗

*this original post has been edited for correct wording and more information

[samisadeangirl]

PSA: Don't Look Like a Bot!

Just a reminder to new Tumblr users that we have a spam bot problem here on this lovely hellsite, so if you're a legit acount, make sure you DON'T LOOK LIKE A BOT!

If I and many others here get a new follower with the following:

No profile pic or the pic of an attractive woman

No banner

No title or description or description is very generic (gender, age, etc.)

Most importantly, NO POSTS

we're going to assume you're a bot and report/block your account. I might give you the benefit of the doubt for a couple of days if your Likes are visible and show that you've liked some posts, but if nothing changes (since some bot creators are clever enough to like a few random posts to seem "real"), I'll block you after that grace period.

Also, even if you do have what seems like a legit blog (i.e. you do have a real profile pic, banner, title, and/or description) but you have no posts--even if you have likes--I will still block you after a few days. Tumblr's life blood is based on both content creators and reblogs, and if users don't reblog content regularly, then content creators will get discouraged and may stop, and this site will slowly die. Likes are appreciated, but they don't spread content to a wider audience--this isn't Facebook, and there is no algorithm (since most of us turn that function off). So even if you don't plan to make content of your own, you should be reblogging posts that you like to spread them to your followers--after all, reblogs are how those posts showed up in your feed in the first place.

[daydreaming-in-daisies]

reblog bait (ex. "reblog this or something terrible will happen to your loved one" or "reblog this otherwise you're a heartless bigot") is infinitely more annoying than an empty blog with a default avatar.

[doodlingwren]

It's again that time of the week where I have to go and report the spam and/or porn bots from the tags I follow because every time I see one of their posts on my dashboard I die inside a little bit

[oifaaa]

You’re in your Tim Drake detective era with this porn bot / Barbie investigation

Change of plans guys I'm actually just going to deactivate this whole account and start again fresh think it'll be better for every one

[nerdingz]

This has been in my drafts for a while and it happened again so I'm posting:

I've been told that my academic writing style looks very Large Language Model (AI) and I just-

Not in like a robotic way apparently, and then the guy explained and like-

I KNOW, OkaY? I love my commas and my words and my 'ands' and my inability to not be wordy in that like very niche way, okay? LLMs came after my writing style not before.

It also sets off all shitty AI "detectors" and if I don't make sure I have like the timestamp markers on in every single one of my documents I'm going to get burned by a prof one day. (there is nothing that can accurately detect AI writing, do not let anyone tell you otherwise)

TL;DR: LLMs and AI make writer's life a living hell, real time example.

[schnaf]

tumblr seems to randomly unfollow blogs again, so @ mutuals: if i unfollowed you today, tell me, i'll be back

[themandylion]

A cutie patootie enters the ring.

[fireboos99]

obligatory first post just so this blog isn't so damn empty, lmao old art bc too lazy to dig out something better haha Savitri (Azem) my beloved<3 (if this drawing has appeared on this site before, that was my previous blog, I had to remake for reasons)

[gooseontheinternet]

does anyone else get the occasional "i have x condition and here's every single devestating thing about me. GIVE ME MONEY" ask from the sketchiest account you've ever seen. cause i've gotten THREE in the past two weeks or so

like i am sorry to the two different random robot women who have asthma. so do i queen

[detectivekirby]

I haven't actually seen many bots lately...