Reporting harassment, hatespeech, etc-
Hey guys, hope you’re well on your toes today. In the wake of (yet another) wave of individuals most commonly referred to as antis sending out multiple threats and hate messages to content creators, I wanted to make a quick rundown of how the Report System can be used in your defense.
On the tumblr’s community guidelines page you have a variety of reasons/scenarios, but I’ll emphasize the ones based on what we usually get attacked for.
When clicking either one, you’ll go through a quick form with some questions. By the end of the form, it will ask you to provide a URL. In the case of receiving Inbox threats, you may reply these, then copy the link of the post and paste it in the form. If you were DM’d, and you took a screenshot of the conversation and made a public post of it, you can use this link, too.
But the form isn’t exactly helpful, because we can’t link a DM conversation, for example. So- if all else fails, go to them directly. Here’s what the form looks like, and here, they have an attachment form where you may provide screenshots and any other graphic evidence to back your case:
What’s going on? Select “Something else” from the drop-down menu. State your situation. Submit your screenshots to the “Attachment” form below the text box. Don’t leave the text box empty! Don’t forget to add in important details, for instance, has this person been harassing you regularly?
Provide the rest of your details, and you’re done.
Thought I’d type this quickly to help some, since their guidelines and such changed merely a year ago or so. Stay safe, and don’t take these lowlives seriously. The reality of the situation is that they’re very immature, poorly educated individuals with a knack for fucking around like a kid hitting puberty. But if they get psycho- I encourage everyone to register their blog(s) with StatCounter. Keep up track of IPs, block them, report them…you name it.
Don’t let these mediocre lowlives deter you from creating. And if staff bites back saying something about content violation, we’re creating art in various forms, based on fiction, and we are doing nothing wrong. Pass this down.