#staff nuked this blog but i appealed

[a-very-tired-jew]

Oh, that explains why I'm getting hate today. STA made a post about me. They must be really upset that a forensic scientist posting reasonable and measured takes, explaining how forensic science works, using their experience as a colloquially known "death expert" to debunk things, calling out propaganda, calling out antisemitism, and using their years of experience as a professor and scientist to address misinformation is undermining their entire grift.

But that's STA's MO. They have to lie about the content of a blog they don't like to villainize it. Especially if that blog isn't a massive vitriolic cesspit that instead offers nuanced takes and doesn't take radical accelerationist positions that are supported by appeals to emotion. For STA, if you come back to my blog, remember how you pretended to be an Israeli then got caught using a bad translator that used niqqud and put out stuff that modern Hebrew speakers said was wrong? Remember how you then retconned your backstory to being an Israeli-ex pat who moved to CT because of the war? Which still didn't explain why you couldn't actually write Hebrew like someone who grew up in Israel? So you then retconned again to someone whose family moved when they were a teen to CT? And that another retcon still didn't explain how you failed at faking speaking Hebrew so badly? Then when people checked with the CT communities and no one could verify an Israeli ex-pat family according to your backstory you retconned to just being "ethnically Jewish"?

Remember how you pretended to be a "Zionist" but were just pushing stereotypical Kahanist rhetoric to try and get Zionists to agree with you, and when jumblr called you out you then became a raging antisemite and got your original blog deactivated by staff? You remember that, right?

I guess your grift is going well since you're sending people my way, but I'm loving that they have to make throwaways to send me hate. Have fun with that.

And for anyone coming to my blog to spread said hate and attack me, a big red warning sign that an account is not run by an actual Jew is if they call other Jews they disagree with Nazis. We have words for that kind of person, Nazi is not one of them because the core of Nazism requires antisemitism. Only a Jew-faker who has a history of Jew faking and got their original blog nuked by staff would call a Jew a Nazi.

Notice how they don't call out Christian Zionists and focus solely on calling Jews the "real" Nazis? Yeah...that should be your first and only moment to realize stoptheantisemitism isn't who or what they say they are.

Unfortunately I know none of this will be accepted by their fan base and that respective circle of antisemites. But hey, one can hope. Right?

(Also, for clarity; the receipts are out there but the original blog that had them deactivated for personal reasons. Some of them are easily found whereas others are not. We, meaning jumblr, didn't screenshot and catalogue everything during their initial blog because we didn't think that the grift would be this bad. Personally, I yell at myself for not following proper forensic practice and take screenshots for evidence sake. I hate using personal experiences as anecdotal evidence, but that's where we are at. We're in a they said/they said situation. Which is why this is still going on)

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Something I've been thinking about more and more is the charlottan issue last year. Like, the behavior was really unhinged on the part of Matt Mullenweg, our dear dear photomatt, obviously, but like

You know, it had to be a trans woman, right?

Like I don't want to say this couldn't have happened in the way it did to other demographics like, I don't trust he would have been normal around a black woman either, but let's really analyze this for a bit.

His goal wasn't just to defend himself, it was specifically to turn everyone else on her. We get that right? He tried to make her seem violent, and tried to appeal to the idea that she had a ton of inappropriate, freak sideblogs. His goal in all of this wasn't just to harass someone who criticized him on the internet, it was specifically to get a trans woman to shut up, and to that, the cis man was going to bring her "dirty laundry" out to dry.

He did this because...well he's not stupid. If he wasn't a transphobic person, he wouldn't have engaged in the harassment campaign he did. The staff on the Tumblr side has completely nuked the blogs of trans people before, and they had a moderator who was taking payments to nuke trans women off the platform. Do you think that, perhaps, maybe, the culture at staff is probably more than a little bit transphobic? That maybe the staff that came up with "female presenting nipples" probably doesn't have the best interests in mind regarding trans women?

The fact that Matt Mullenweg's behavior lines up with the behavior of people who consistently make callout posts regarding trans women on the platform really shouldn't be viewed as coincidence. I think he was aware, at least in part, of the culture on this platform. He did this, he DM'd people, he brought up her sideblogs specifically because he knew that this website will at the slightest nudge start badgering trans women.

And I think a lot of people only caught onto that not because they had any sympathies for the victim, but because they wanted to own Matt Wullenweg, if the events of the last year have proved anything to me.

[campcrow2]

It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

And why is that @staff cuz yall nuked my last blog with no warning or appeal process.

Go fuck yourselfs cuz 2 years ago I was at dialysis and yall nuked me for nothing. And then wonder why this website isn’t very active

[fireyfobbitmedicine]

For those who don't understand why I'm so pissed off it's because back in 2018 during the porn ban Tumblr for whatever reason deleted this blog and after that I had to make a new blog called deluxesoap. Some months after that Tumblr appealed to my report about mistakenly deleting this blog and brought it back and so I ended up alternating between the two of them whenever I hit post limit. When I had both blogs I created a side blog to post my art on and had joined both as members on it. Then a fucking year ago Tumblr nuked deluxesoap all because I posted doll leaks for the little mermaid and now they fucking nuked every post on my art blog that came from that blog

so in SHORT FUCK TUMBLR AND FUCK STAFF WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF REBLOGGING SHIT IF YOU MOUSY CUNTS ARE GONNA DELETE IT ALL YOU WASTES OF FUCKING SPACE

[codecicle-archive]

dont wanna seem Weird asking cause im not mutuals w lukas fizzfags (i AM mutuals w like 95% of his and thats why im curious) so i wanted to ask if u knew what happened to his blog/if hes planning on making another oine?

his blog got nuked by staff for content that violated guidelines, specifically harassment, and they've denied it's appeal to get it back. he said he'll return whenever suckening season 2 releases (ALLEGEDLY)

[marcussour]

Hi

So, for the like 3 of you that maybe have wondered where have I been the last weeks, well, basically playing FF7 Rebirth and chilling on cohost.

Thing is, after the whole tumblr selling our data to train ai models fiasco, I was kinda in shock and decided to leave this place. I uninstalled the app from my phone, did backups of my blogs (which I wasn't gonna delete, just stop uploading), went to cohost and started posting there (it's super chill btw, it's like early tumblr mixed with old twitter, in case you're wondering). All while processing what to do next, because frankly, we've all felt that tumblr is somewhat on decline and seeing all the bad stuff it's CEO has done as of late -including threats of nuking the site this year-, the last few years always felt like there was an invisible countdown on this website all the time.

But still, I'm not gonna pretend I'm not gonna miss it, if not tumblr per se, certainly some of the people I've met here who are my mutuals of many years, many of which I've become friends with. Also, despite everything, I still think this is a good platform for posting art. Cohost has its good things (like being WAY more relaxed about NSFW stuff), but there are more file size restrictions, photosets are limited to fewer pictures, etc. There might be some ways to improve that besides what the staff there is doing, since cohost lets you edit posts in many more ways than tumblr (read somewhere that it was tumblr, but for hornier and more linux savy people), so there's also that.

Anyway, after processing everything that happened, and understanding that one way or another, my art's probably gonna be scraped from the internet nevertheless, even if tumblr offers an opt out option (that doesn't even consider the people that tumblr decides to sell our stuff to, let alone the fact that it also arrived so late that we probably everything was already scraped to begin with) even if I glaze it or whatever, I kinda made peace with what happened. I'm still weary about uploading, or where to do it. Yes, I know that I don't have huge numbers or a distinctive enough style for people to copy, but I also know that, nevertheless, not only my art, but the things I've written, the photos I've taken, etc., all has been fed into that slot machine of generating content. If anything, with the days I've noticed I'm way more angry at techbros as usual, and especially tumblr ceo and part of it's staff -I know that not everyone agrees with him and that there are good people in the staff, but there's also sycophants, professional "yes man"s and the like-.

So, after all that, I thought, well, might as well go back. But the thing is that, after spending a couple of weeks away (and missing the posts I imagine came up here both about the Cerveza Cristal meme and about Toriyama's death, among other things), coming back here has been weird, like, for better or worse, it has lost its appeal. I've read a couple of posts before writing this one and I was like "has it always been like this here?".

So, what now? I have no clue. I don't think I'm gonna download the mobile app again, if anything, I've noticed how much time it consumed to just check tumblr with the frequency I used to, so I don't feel like doing that anymore. I think I might pop up here from time to time, maybe return to live blogging Critical Role and Candela Obscura. Will probably like more stuff than the one I post and reblog. Still deciding if I should post new art stuff here, we'll see.

Anyway, if any of you have cohost, you can find me there

[deramin2]

This!

And yeah, this is still a big structural problem with Tumblr moderation, but it has a different solution than "kick bigots out of the moderation team." It's that the appeals process needs a more robust way to report targeted harassment as a factor in why someone was reported in the first place.

It's the same reason Black people are more likely to get prosecuted for drug possession: Black people smoke weed at the same rate as white people, but white people aren't reported frequently and Black people are due to racism (by privateer citizens and police). So even if you fixed prosecution to only prosecute people who clearly broke the law and didn't have cops frame them, the enforcement of drug laws would still be biased because who gets reported is biased. (Which is one reason prohibition laws need to be repealed and post convictions nullified.)

It's also why "trans people aren't breaking the rules and being banned anyway" is a bad argument. Quite frequently there was a TOS violation. It's just that most of us are constantly flouting the TOS and it's completely ignored. Meanwhile transphobes ensure that trans people, and especially trans woman, are constantly living under a panopticon where the slightest infraction gets reported, and are constantly baited into violating the TOS through abuse.

Exactly the same pattern as childhood bullies using constant verbal abuse to bait their target into hitting them to make it stop and then running to the teacher about it to complain that actually they were the one being targeted and assaulted. Most schools rules say teachers have to punish hitting other kids, but don't give a shit about ongoing campaigns of psychological torture (a trauma that a lot of trans children also loved to and are predisposed to react too as adults). I'm betting a lot of these dedicated transphobes were also abusers in childhood and faced few consequences or were even rewarded for it.

All these factors are also why Palestinian blogs are getting nuked. Staff aren't searching the tags for Palestinians to ban, anti-Palestinian bigots are. Both looking for the smallest infraction and baiting Palestinians into those violations by using their justifiable anger and trauma.

The fact that transphobes water not being banned for hate speech when it's reported is absolutely a case of moderation rules enforcer bias and them being given continual free passes to be hateful is absolutely enabling them and allowing them to mass report.

Moderation tools that rely on reporting and are especially sensitive to mass reporting are incredibly vulnerable to coordinated reporting attacks. But moderation teams are taught they can't pick and choose who to enforce the rules against. Either there was a violation or there wasn't and what series of events led to the violation are not important. Theoretically this prevents bias and favoritism at the enforcement level, but it doesn't protect against reporting level bias.

(This is why the ACLU's philosophy is that they'll still defend hateful people against first amendment violations because even if those people are garbage, far more and better people are hurt by the legal system picking and choosing unequally. Opinions differ on whether that is an effective strategy to create a better society.)

No social media platform has solved this problem. I think Blue Sky probably has the best protections between the extremely thorough way blocks work and subscribing to user-created moderation lists on top of site moderation. Mostly it just keeps people separated so it's harder for transphobes to interact with trans people at all. It's not foolproof either, but it has led to a much more thriving and safe trans community where most threads aren't full of hateful replies. But that was designed into the structure of the site nearly from the beginning by people that got burned by multiple older platforms. Tumblr's structure would make it extremely hard to implement something similar.

Obviously things need to change this is a completely unacceptable moderation situation leading to the persecution and silencing of a vulnerable minority. But understanding where is actually going wrong will help us identify and advocate for specific policy changes that would improve it. Simply railing at Staff for being uniquely bigoted does nothing to address structural drivers of bias that are outside their hands.

The number 1 change I recommend is considering targeted mass reporting to be a policy violation. It wouldn't solve everything, but it would improve things and there's precedent for it in other site moderation policies (like AO3). If we can bend our energy towards that one change, we can then identify other specific policy changes.

it's so strange to see the response whenever someone gets banned that this is like. Intentional targeted banning from Tumblr. It's not! It's almost always someone getting brigaded until the autoban gets triggered, which is bad but it's a different category of problem and much, much harder to solve.

If what you get from this is "Tumblr bans trans women" and not "transphobes in particular have organised methods for report brigading accounts until they get banned" you will misunderstand the problem and why it persists. It's not a secret that the people getting banned are usually highly visible and/or get into fights a lot!

[bareback-to-the-future]

You were bareback-to-the-future?! I’m 99% sure I followed your blog religiously when I first joined tumblr when I was maybe all of 18 years old lol I think I had the biggest crush on you

I think you're thinking of something like barebacktothefuture maybe? which was not me.

but i WAS bareback-to-the-future for a while like 3 1/2 years ago after my first blog @financeswithwolves got terminated*, but before I changed my url to @theworsethingsgettheharderifight... but i guess i never reclaimed it after (or it would've been scrubbed in my second termination**) and nobody else claimed it in the meantime, so it's mine again lmao

*because staff kept blurring my entire blog for "explicit content" before i could even do anything about a flagged post and i became outright hostile in my constant appeals but that neither here nor there lol

**for alleged explicit content on a side blog (@toystory-official) that i know for a fact had ZERO flagged posts or prior like "warnings", they nuked my entire account. then left me on read when i tried to appeal

[batdorable]

whats happening to wereralph right now reminds me of the time my friends and i who run extremelycursedimages got our blogs nuked from space without a chance of appeal because of something someone had submitted to us and we didnt get them back for 7 months, i know that was under different management but like seriously if this problem persists that long (from 2018 to about now) @staff has a problem they need to ameliorate

[skiddlecat]

A while ago, I sent a problem concerning TV Tropes to a Tumblr user called bootsforthebootgod, and they used their TV Tropes account, Boots, to send the problem to Ask the Tropers.  Unfortunately, the conversation was nuked before I could read it, so I have no idea what was said.

Boots believes that the problem is resolved, but it's not! I'm still unable to participate in forums (that also includes the Edit Banned/Suspended thread), edit or create pages, read, send, or get messages, write reviews, upload videos, or use the Wishlist, Ask the Tropers, Trope Finder, You Know that Show, the Trope Launch Pad, the Cut List, or Submit a Bug.  Worse yet, I can't even change the email address I'm using on my account, so I can't create another account.  Because I never had a chance to read the conversation, I have no idea why nothing was done, or if anyone even tried to do anything.  I'd delete my account if I could, but that will only make my account permanently inaccessible, so I'll still not be able to use my email address for another account.  The Contact Us function is useless to me as well because the only people who can respond to email messages are the mods and the staff, and they will not respond to my messages.  None of this would be a problem if I had access to another email address, but I don't.

Want to know the worst part?  I've had people tell all this to Boots, but Boots keeps insisting the problem is resolved.  I don't know what they mean (or think they mean) when they say that, but their definition of "resolved" is clearly not the same as mine.  I'm starting to suspect that they didn't even actually read the message; they probably read only "the problem has not been resolved" and automatically assumed I haven't actually tried using my account.  Worse yet, Boots seems to think I want them to appeal a ban, but I don't; all I want is to know how the conversation went so I can find out what went wrong and what to do.  By not telling me how the conversation went, they are only worsening my problem!  Could you contact Boots on their TV Tropes account or on their Tumblr account, bootsforthebootgod?  If you have to, ping them on Tumblr and tell them to actually read this whole message, or better yet, go to their inbox (I could submit the link to you so you can go straight from there) and send them this message (preferably on mobile).  You can even DM them.  Have them know that this message is urgent and that they should leave not a single word of it unread.  I want them to properly understand my problem and help me to solve it.  Could you tell them to send you screenshots of the conversation (every single post), and then, could you post it on your blog so I can read it and know what to do?  (If I have to, I'll even send you a link to the conversation.  That way, you could send it to Boots so they'll know what you're talking about.)

...buddy by "i have a tv tropes account" i meant i created one to edit exactly two pages of tv tropes to add oneshot to them. i have autism, and it is exactly 7:58 in the morning at the time of writing this, i don't have the attention span to read all of this nor do i think i'm the person you should go to for this

[myfriendskickass]

The issue is that tumblr uses BOTS to enforce the TOS and is entirely USER reported. A lot of people who got banned (NOT the-bar-sinister, but a lot of other people) got banned because they actually WERE breaking TOS, particularly the rules about not being a harrassing shitlord...while also just happening to be trans.

And when tumblr nukes a blog, they nuke EVERYTHING and give you the "this was deleted for violating TOS" no matter what that content was or whether it actually violated TOS or not. It's a stock message. If somebody is posting heinous violent crimes, all of their images of cute puppies are going to get that message even when they get terminated.

Where the transphobia comes in is that realistically, we all break TOS all the dang time, unless you are SUPER careful, because it's statistically improbable not to, and TOS is worded in a way sometimes that gives a lot of grey areas, especially since a bot is flagging things and false positives happen a lot. But if you're trans, you're also statistically more likely to both get reported by people in the first place, and more likely to have whatever human reviewers still work here to side on the side of transphobes. If you have a sizeable hatedom and get involved in drama a lot, you are more likely to get things maliciously reported (which is what happened to the-bar-sinister) EN MASSE, which will trigger the bot to autoban you and then it takes ages to get a manual review, if you ever get one.

There are whole discord servers and offsite groups dedicated to picking on a specific tumblr user they hate - who is most often part of a marginalized group, because we get hate directed at us more often - who will mass report users out of malicious intent just because they don't like them.

Ban evasion is also technically what a lot of these repeat bans are happening for - tumblr is pretty lax with enforcing ban evasion but it is still technically not allowed. I see this happen to all the nazis and radfems people complain about all the time - they ARE getting banned, but you need to report them, and you also need to FOLLOW UP with the bot email tumblr sends you about whether they think a thing breaks TOS/Community Guidelines or not.

Also, not for nothing...but a lot of people who are getting banned in 2024 ARE posting explicit sex. It's just that, again, people are going to report you more often if you're marginalized. The human reviewers we do have are underpaid and untrained, and are more likely to ban based on things TECHNICALLY ACTUALLY KIND OF being against TOS rather than using their brains and viewing things in context (which is what I suspect happened to the-bar-sinister.) And yeah, uneducated support staff is going to be more likely to interpret SFW queer art as actually NSFW due to the background radiation of homophobia that permeates most of society.

Things like transition timelines, depending on how it's worded, CAN TECHNICALLY fall under "too sexy" for tumblr, especially images. The transphobia is how that is considered against TOS in the first place - but if an underpaid support staff human looks at an appeal and sees that the post in question talks about, say, bottom growth for example, with pictures? Well...honestly, technically, with rules AS WRITTEN, that DOES fall under banned content. It's just that if we had moderation that was properly trained, they'd be able to look at it in context and realize that it's not pornographic. Just...you know, these are all minimum wage workers who are way more likely to err on the side of caution to keep their jobs.

Basically, TL;DR, of the people who post hole, trans people are more likely to be reported for posting hole, sfw queer art is more likely to be read by other people as more NSFW than it is, when tumblr gets enough user reports about someone they autoterminate, support staff is not well trained enough to be able to untangle things like mass harassment campaigns and reporting in bad faith, and sometimes the trans people getting banned are getting banned for actual violent threats and harassment and such and just also happen to be trans.

@vergess knows a lot more about this than I would, if they want to chime in.

"I can't post my fully clothed, slightly suggestive queer fanart of adult characters from a children's media in case someone decides it counts as porn and reports my account" feels like a 2002 era problem to have.

[laraleecupcake]

A while ago, I sent a problem concerning TV Tropes to a Tumblr user called @bootsforthebootgod, and they used their TV Tropes account, Boots, to send the problem to Ask the Tropers.  Unfortunately, the conversation was nuked before I could read it, so I have no idea what was said.

Boots believes that the problem is resolved, but it's not! I'm still unable to participate in forums (that also includes the Edit Banned/Suspended thread), edit or create pages, read, send, or get messages, write reviews, upload videos, or use the Wishlist, Ask the Tropers, Trope Finder, You Know that Show, the Trope Launch Pad, the Cut List, or Submit a Bug.  Worse yet, I can't even change the email address I'm using on my account, so I can't create another account.  Because I never had a chance to read the conversation, I have no idea why nothing was done, or if anyone even tried to do anything.  I'd delete my account if I could, but that will only make my account permanently inaccessible, so I'll still not be able to use my email address for another account.  The Contact Us function is useless to me as well because the only people who can respond to email messages are the mods and the staff, and they will not respond to my messages.  None of this would be a problem if I had access to another email address, but I don't.

Want to know the worst part?  I've had people tell all this to Boots, but Boots keeps insisting the problem is resolved.  I don't know what they mean (or think they mean) when they say that, but their definition of "resolved" is clearly not the same as mine.  I'm starting to suspect that they didn't even actually read the message; they probably read only "the problem has not been resolved" and automatically assumed I haven't actually tried using my account.  Worse yet, Boots seems to think I want them to appeal a ban, but I don't; all I want is to know how the conversation went so I can find out what went wrong and what to do.  By not telling me how the conversation went, they are only worsening my problem!  Could you contact Boots on their TV Tropes account or on their Tumblr account, @bootsforthebootgod?  If you have to, ping them on Tumblr and tell them to actually read this whole message, or better yet, go to their inbox (I could submit the link to you so you can go straight from there) and send them this message (preferably on mobile).  You can even DM them.  Have them know that this message is urgent and that they should leave not a single word of it unread.  I want them to properly understand my problem and help me to solve it.  Could you tell them to send you screenshots of the conversation (every single post), and then, could you post it on your blog so I can read it and know what to do?

I thought you were gonna ask me like... something about that one OFMD episode I was talking about

Cuz

wow

Look, kid, my advice to you is to Let This Go.

I don't know the user you're talking about, I've never even interacted with them (that I know/remember about)... Also that user is a minor so IDK what kind of pull you think they have???

Also I don't even have a TV Tropes account. I just like analyzing my gay pirate show once in a blue moon.

I understand you're frustrated. But maybe find a different hobby to destress with for right now.

PS: Upon further inspection, I think your problem could be resolved by simply creating another email address? Do kids not do this anymore? I had like 4 by the time I was 17 for no other reason than I came up with a new cool name...

[beardedmrbean]

How many blogs has been nuked? People be saying tungle hot it's trash moved to twatter, and yet I've seen mugi gone... I don't know whose next?

Bunch of blogs nuked, no real anything to say why for some others I expect to see getting hit.

Can't even think why Mugi got hit, there's far more explicit tiddy blogs and most of their hot takes weren't anything that would run afoul of the tumblr police.

I'm thinking there might just be a group that's mass reporting blogs on the regular and staff is too bogged down to actually go through the appeals on them.

Still no matter what way you cut it we're better than twitter, even with the random bans..

[vintage-tech]

Three years ago I had the precursor to this blog, heck-yeah-old-tech, before Tumblr shut it down without warning and without a working appeals system. (Same happened to Shifty Thrifting. Musta been a thing with them: destroy the most popular blogs, that’s a great business model.) I had like 53k followers and I joked at the time that all but two dozen of the accounts were bots.

Now I am gaining about two hundred followers a day -- primarily with names like “squishystiffhorsesausage” so you know they’re bots -- with the occasional real human and a few corporate shills. I can’t crow about how many followers I have if 4/5 of them are imaginary (unlike some people with their likewise-inflated Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter follower numbers), especially if Tumblr ever drops a nuke and removes skads of fake accounts, like has happened a time or two before. [Please, Staff, make that happen. Get something right.]

So here I am at 34,945 followers (six new in the time it took me to put together this post) and all but 24 are fake.

[mossy-vulpes]

Dear @staff ,

I posted a picture celebrating my non-binary body. I was topless in boxers. As I am non-binary this should be allowed by the t.o.s. This picture was flagged. I appealed it, as I am non-binary that makes my nipples non-binary. The appeal was reviewed and deemed "female presenting". How dare you define my sex, how dare you not allow me to express myself, how dare you censor my UNGENDERED NIPPLES

My gender dysphoria has been through the roof with all this shit going on.

I am not to be told my gender, I tell you.

Since my blog has been nuked, hidden, deemed unworthy of view, all I can do is post and hope someone in the void can see

[titleknown]

doctorguilty replied to your post “While I’m glad Tumblr finally has taken into concern the issue of...”

At the very least, it's possible the complete nsfw blacklisting might be temporary? Because the only nsfw blogs I saw get completely nuked were ones that absolutely had pedoshit on them. Any nsfw blogs I follow they're all still here. So hopefully eventually they'll be fixing that in the near future.. otherwise yeah...big yikes punishing both pedo artists and artist who didn't do shit wrong

Oh and like also to my knowledge any blogs that got banned unfairly and appealed it were back up within a day. I haven’t seen a single pedo blog go back up so! Again like not defending all the neglegence that led up to this but, I guess I’m holding onto the optimism that it’ll get better? I hope :c

Yeah, that’s fair enough, and I do hope that’s the case.

Tho, I don’t have the most confidence because, for several months now they’ve also basically been shadow-blocking all external links, outside of a tiny whitelist that they’ve never made visible, supposedly for another abortive attempt at dealing with porn spammers; and there’s been no response or attempts to fix the problems that’s caused; leading to most of us having to resort to workarounds or not use extents

And as somebody who likes to link their sources and make masterposts, this pisses me off a lot. So, I’m not the most confident in @staff/@support‘s ability to not use the search as a method for basically sweeping problems under the rug...