Simblrpocalypse and Tumblrâs Flawed Banning System: An Aggregate
In light of the ongoing instant-bans that have been targeting numerous Simblr accounts lately, Iâm curious: exactly how many of us in The Simsâ videogaming community have been hit by Tumblrâs inept bans before?
Regardless of when it happened (last week or last year, it still happened); regardless of whether you successfully got your account restored or not; and regardless of whether @staff gave you any explanation why or why or notâhow many of yâall have suffered from Tumblrâs automated bots and algorithms flagging your account and terminating it without warning?
Recently, more and more simmers have been asking questions about what can be done, not just to restore lost accounts, but most importantly: how to protect current accounts that could still fall victim to automatic termination. It is a sad state of affairs when the community has to educate ourselves, left in the dark with nothing but radio silence, when @staff @support themselves does nothing to promptly answer tickets submitted to https://www.tumblr.com/support, and fail to take adequate action by providing meaningful ways to help its user base with proper safeguards, algorithmic responses (warnings, etc.), or community-wide public outreach when asked directly about the situation.
As Tumblr drags its feet in silence, more blogs can be shut down with none the wiser for it. Some blogs are never recovered or return, and if not for @katsujiiccfinds here and @desiree-uk here coming forward with details about their own account terminations, the Sims community would have likely never known about the potential threat of certain rebloggable outbound links that can cause automatic terminations. But as seen in cases like mine here, sometimes being forewarned doesnât necessarily guarantee being forearmed. And in cases like @three-stars-ranch & @studiok2sims last week and @darkccfinds & @mspoodle1 last year, and so many more simblrs in-betweenâthey had no clue why their accounts were suddenly banned without warningâwith accounts like @aisquaredchoco and @studiok2sims being restored just as suddenly and also without any explanation.
This is a totally unacceptable way to run a social media website and treat oneâs user base, and something must be done.
So please, Simblrs, tell us about your experiences with Tumblrâs banning/flagging automated system. Comment, reblog, and share with us, so that more simmers can better understand what to do to in such circumstances, when @staff @support clearly canât be bothered to do their jobs, and rely on busted codes and bots to handle matters for them.
