#especially the spam bots

[madamemozart]

Had a bug yesterday where I couldn't log into Tumblr and ended up resetting my password which worked, but then when I signed out again, I couldn't get back in. 🙃 Ended up sending a bug report thing to Tumblr Staff, and NOW I'M BACK

Anyway, at this point, my Sims 4 sideblog is going to have as much posts as this one (500+), despite it having like, half the followers this one has. But can blame me? I just love playing the game, okay.

By no means am I 'abandoning' this blog, it's my main, after all. I'll try to drop some stuff here, but nyeh.

Might as well drop the link -> come follow my sims' misadventures if you haven't already lol

[khaire-traveler]

I reiterate that if you're going to ask people for donations, you will come across as extremely suspicious if you spam their inbox. People are likely to report and/or block you, thinking you're a bot. If you need donations, I do not recommend going about like this. I really, REALLY do not recommend it.

[designers-teaparty]

ok might as well take a shot at this

if you know any artists with cute styles who sells prints, especially if they do a lot of white-pink-ish art, pls link me their shops, I'm looking for art to decorate my bedroom with :)

(self promos are SO welcome)

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

i don’t really blame anyone putting this kind of post on my dash because it IS harrowing to observe but i think some people need to understand that tumblr isn’t moderated by an unknown They who personally restrict and ban every individual blog that gets deactivated.

there are (poorly-tuned, probably badly optimized, and almost definitely poisoned by false abuse reports) automated systems that flag suspicious activity as potential spam. it’s impossible to manually moderate a site that gets as much traffic as tumblr.

and unfortunately, tumblr as a website has been infested for years now with false donation scams & similar spambots sending repeated asks and dms from brand new blogs, usually in batches all with similar wording.

you see where i’m going with this???

please be cautious with your conspiracy theories.

[twentyplusinterestsinatrenchcoat]

First it was porn bots and now it seems to be. job listings?

[tuliharja]

What a great way to start my morning by checking my email and getting all excited about the fact someone left a comment in my one art collection in AO3. Just to realize it was basically "clever" advertisement spam. It started at first like a misplaced comment (it didn't have anything to do with my art collection and it started somewhat blaming manner toward my collection, but at least the fandom reference was correct), but once I read it till the end, I realized it was basically an advertisement. Talk about a real bummer to start one's morning.

[silvermoon424]

Has anyone else been getting DMs from bots about dating sites and seeing more porn bot activity in the tags

We’re in a war people

[airbendertendou]

i am begging you guys to add a bio & your age. if that makes you uncomfy then at least choose a profile picture & header 😭

[wulffridge]

Anyone notice a sharp decrease in followers? I don't really care how many I have but I thought it was odd as I went from around 1500 to 600-something. The only thing I did right before this sharp decrease (so I'm betting it was that but who knows) was go through the first 50 or so followers on the list and ended up finding a number of spam bots, which I blocked. I know for a fact I didn't block nearly 1000 people so I'm wondering what happened.

[shailion]

Had a mini nightmare that my tumblr inbox was filling up with spambot messages so quickly i couldn't report them all and there was just more and more bots messaging me

[manu-maow]

Hehe I know this doesn’t seem like a lot, but it means a lot to me. Thanks guys <33

[ryuseibutgayer]

Why is it that the thing that annoys me the most about porn spam bots is that they can't spell?

[moonlightchn]

breaking my silence and I will delete this but DONT BE THE PERSON who makes 91763892 identical bots every few days and then SPAMS with 10 tags a day just to not interact and then GO INACTIVE.

seriously

don't be that person

[fishsfailureson]

"What is to come"

(image id is both in the alt text and below the read more- I put it under one because it's incredibly long)

And so there we have it, the 200+ followers artpiece that I have been working on for several days, if I had to guess I'd say it took 25 or so hours over eleven days. Honestly it's so surreal to me that I'm here with over 200 followers (260 as of typing this- yes, I procrastinated on this), especially when I only hit 100 followers in February. It's genuinely really nice to know that people are actually interested in my art (before anyone brings up spam bots- I know there are a few of them amongst my followers but I've checked most of them and I am 100% confident that over 200 of them are real). I don't really have much else to say really- I'm just grateful to have the support. Thanks y'all :).

[Image id: a large, lineless digital drawing of several dinosaurs. It is nighttime. At the bottom of the piece, a lone Eoraptor lunensis is walking across the floodplains- both the ground and the Eoraptor are just silhouettes, the early dinosaur has been given protofeathers. The full moon is shining, it's size is exaggerated for artistic affect. Behind the moon, the heads of sixteen different dinosaurs can be seen (listed left to right, bottom to top) Row 1- Thecodontosaurus antiquus (small sauropodomorph with light brown protofeathers, near-white undersides, straight stripes that are moderately darker than the base colour and vibrant green eyes), Coelophysis bauri (small early theropod with a long and narrow skull, its protofeathers are golden and black. A soft orange stripe runs across the back of its head, it has warm brown eyes. Row 2- Plateosaurus trossingensis (long-necked sauropodomorph, it has reddish-brown scales, light undersides, triangular stripes running down it's spine that get bigger the further down they get and pale yellow eyes), Heterodontosaurus tuckii (small ornithopod with a hooked grey beak. It has spiky green feathers, a lighter chest and a darker stripe running along its head and back, there are three small spots on its face, two behind the eye and one infront of it, it's eyes are bright yellow). Row 3- Megalosaurus bucklandii (medium-sized theropod with warm brown feathers, lighter undersides, dark spots and bright yellow eyes, there are several scars on its face), Brachiosaurus altithorax (greenish-grey true sauropod with lighter undersides, a dark pink patch on its throat, dark desaturated brown eyes and a few small scars on its neck), Archaeopteryx (early toothed bird with a black head, white neck and bright yellow eyes). Row 4- Hylaeosaurus armatus (pale brown ankylosaur with lighter undersides and vibrant green eyes), Velociraptor mongoliensis (dromaeosaur with light brown feathers, a lighter chest, a black stripe near its eye and light green eyes), Sinosauropteryx prima (small compsognathid theropod with ginger protofeathers, an off white mask and undersides and pale yellow eyes), Iguanodon bernissartensis (large greenish-grey ornithopod with a slightly darker back, pale undersides, a grey beak, and yellow eyes). Row 5- Matuku otagoense (heron with medium grey feathers and a small crest. A red stripe runs from just behind its nostrils to about a third of the way down its neck. Its undersides are white, its beak is grey and its eyes are brown), Triceratops prorsus (three-horned ceratopsian with grey-brown scales, lighter undersides, two triangular stripes between it's brow and nasal horns, reddish-orange diamond-like stripes on its frill, a hooked grey beak and golden eyes. Its brow horns curve forward at the base. Row 6- North Island brown kiwi (plump brown bird with a long pale beak, whiskers and black eyes, its nostrils are at the tip of its bill, and unlike the other dinosaurs in the sky part of its body below the neck is visible), male house sparrow (small redish-brown and grey bird with a black bib below it's bill), it has brown eyes and a dark grey bill. Row 7- rock dove (grey bird with iridescent green feathers scattered across its neck, a dark grey beak, and warm brown eyes). end id]

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

hey y'all, a lot of you are probably already aware of this (especially if you post to fanfic.net) but just in case I'm gonna mention it

if you get a comment that reads like this

IT IS A SCAM

a very common one going around, if you pay them, they will either ghost you or give you AI slop in return

if you receive a comment like this on ao3 go to this page, add a link to their account, in the brief summary section write 'commercial activities, spam', and in the description section say you believe this is one of the recent art scam bot accounts, and put in a link to the chapter of your fic they left a comment on, I also copy and pasted their entire comment for clarity

don't let these fuckers get away with this shit, if you're going to block them please report them first

[andie-platonically]

fellow aspecs - beware of scams

ive seen a number of fake job scams spamming the asexual, aromantic, and aroace tags, sometimes purporting to be FedEx or Amazon. These are scams. Do not click their links. Do not give away personal information.

^^ here is an example of what I’m talking about. Once again, this is not real. If you see one of these posts, report it as spam. i have probably reported about a dozen of these in the past day or so.

in general, i would be very suspicious of job opportunities that are posted to tumblr, especially under accounts with generic urls/pfps. don’t click random links. check the official company website for job postings.

@staff didnt do anything about the porn bots spamming our tags, and I have my doubts that they’ll do anything about scams targeting our community. probably because they’re too busy banning trans women without cause. stay safe everyone!