#i get reported as a bot

[satzukaze]

TAGS

IF I PUT ENOUGH TAGS I CAN GET PEOPLE TO SEE MY STUFF SOMEWHERE THIS IS GONNA BE SO COOL

[whimsyprinx]

“people who don’t block and report bots are why they’re still here” actually staff not properly dealing with them theirselves is why the bots are still here, not people who got tired of having to block and report several bots a day

[sheyri]

Reporting bots in the asexual tag is quickly turning into my favourite hobby

It's actually kinda nice of those bots to deliver a wide variety of content. Tiddies, nutrition supplements, travel, some arabic texts. I even had a crypto post just now!

And if you're not a bot, but wrongly use the tag on a post that has nothing to do with asexuality at all, you just get caught in the crossfire. Sorry not sorry.

[drempen]

Is it just me, or has the amount of porn bots spamming tags dramatically increased over the past couple of days? Like, I can't scroll through a tag for more than a few seconds without encountering numerous blatantly explicit porn links

[mothcpu]

@hmmbo @hyjiinx thanks for the heads up, I'll look into filing a DMCA (is that only for original work? I'm not sure how it works for fan art). in the meantime uh, yeah, report @rokon24 for spam & block because it looks like it's just a bot copy pasting random posts for some reason -_-

[kosmokhaos]

Going into ts3cc tag on tumblr and the first post is always some bot like

CLICK ON MY BUTTHOLE FOR FREE NUDES!

[el-pada]

dear tumblr pls add an option to have people following you require either x amount of posts or time spent on the website because it cant be that every time i open my notifications im greeted by this

in the span of 30 minutes not looking at the site

[numum]

Any Eda, Raine, or Reada in that beautiful sketchbook of yours? And sorry about the bots stressing you out.

not in my traditional sketchbook, but i do have this raeda piece i never got around to finishing 🥺 plus an owl beast doodle

[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.

[ask-azurearts]

It appears new spam is being thrown into boxes via anonymous, stating the obvious here but DO NOT touch links like this at all. I took a picture to share and it got deleted right after, don't ever trust links like this no matter how they look because they can be dangerous to your computer. Delete and move on or share if you see one pop up.

[dazzlingqwq]

guys i cant make a new discord account and i cant log into mine help

[samanthalynnsstuff]

Just to let you know guys, it looks like Instagram user abbyhill2001 got banned on Instagram and just made a new account for her Tumblr p*rn spam. It's now "girl.livehot".

Which is why I'm writing this PSA to tell you if you see her on any tags, block and report her many Tumblr accounts that she (assuming it's just one person even though it's clearly a bot) uses to make posts advertising links to p*rn that are always recommended on unrelated tags. And also do the same thing for the Instagram account, block and report!

Just like what I do every time she comes up in the Rhett and Link tag to spam! Because when I go on the tag, I expect to be in the mood for looking at pics of Rhett and Link being the pretty internet dads they are, NOT LOOKING AT BARE HUMAN BODY PARTS FRONT AND CENTER! But even after I report them, still, I have already seen these pictures and now I have to bust out the imaginary bleach for my eyes.

And I also forgot to mention in my last post that the bots always use the same exact tag combo when I see them. Why?

[francy-sketches]

this is the funniest form of art theft i've ever experienced

[happypeachsludgeflower]

And the award for Most Likely Account To Be A Virus goes to the batshit bot account I just found spammed all over my feed about an urgent Amazon hiring containing a super suspicious link (that we all know ain’t actually what it says it is) juxtaposed with it’s ever changing set of fandom tags.

Like, seriously, holy shit.

How many posts did this thing spit out all at once??

I clicked on the account because I figured I should probably report them or something and the entire blog was literally? just? that one post? a hundred times?? The bot had to have just mass dumped the same text with a different set of fandom tags.

And it was all so obviously a fake account that I was just.. mind boggled?? That someone went to that much effort to make the bot, be it for porn or a virus, and they DIDN’T EVEN TRY?? TO MAKE IT LOOK EVEN SLIGHTLY NORMAL??

There were sooo many posts. I scrolled a long time through them just giggling over the various tag set. Some of them had me rolling with laughter. One of them was tagged with furry porn 🤣

Like?? Why would anyone see a post about a hiring event tagged with furry porn and go, “That’s a real legit looking job!! I should apply!!”

And they were all posted at the exact same time. I’m wheezing. I have so many questions for the mastermind(s) behind this account.

First and fore-fucking-most, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT SO GLARINGLY OBVIOUS THAT ITS A FAKE ACCOUNT.

I’m not even going to bother asking why they made a spam bot in the first place—I probably don’t want to know—I would just (dis)respectfully like to know why anyone would think, “Yea this’ll work!” before unleashing that thing on the masses.

[jaletsplay]

All the Asexual posts are full of health scams. Is there some new fad that the LGBTQ+ community wanted?

[huginsmemory]

Aaaaaand clicking the spam button again.