#blocked posts

[evilhorse]

Looking through my Wally Wood tag and both of these posts from several years ago were flagged for potential adult content. I’m afraid to look in the Namor tag…

[verdantmeadows]

[evilhorse]

Looking through my Dave Stevens tag and came across a blocked post. Couldn’t see it in the tag list, but appealed it anyway. Pinned the post so I wouldn’t have to search for it again. Then suddenly I could see it. It’s the cover of Airboy #5. Then I looked at the tag again, discovering I posted that image twice accidentally. The second post=not blocked. 🤷‍♂️

[lasgalendil]

Become ungovernable.

Added #tubi and #sponsored and #sponsored post to my Tumblr block list. Still see this grey box on my dash but the garish ad content is gone. I'm going to block every single product and company that advertises.

[no-suggestions]

I saw a post on my dash that was blocked due to adult content, and decided to click the learn more link. As I was reading the through the list I saw this part

@staff I think I have a right to decide to see whatever content I want on my blog if you have to address url hoarding in such a unprofessional manner. You are not cute, and clearly don't have the mental capacity to decide what is problematic and isn't.

[curatorsday]

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Today, I struggled with Tumblr while trying to schedule posts for my other blog, Pieces of History. First, I had trouble searching through my older posts to make sure I wasn’t repeating anything. A search would come back telling me there were something like 104 posts tagged “toy” but then I could only see 24 of them. Sigh. I finally figured out a go-around for that but then came across a random post that was blocked for adult content. I know I’m getting into this complaining-about-tumblr’s-new-content-rules bandwagon a bit late but it is finally starting to affect my posts. I found a bonnet flagged the other day and then today I found this mystery post had been flagged. It was a mystery because the new tab you can click on to see any flagged posts told me that I had no posts flagged.

I knew that the post was from August 4, 2017 at least. Rather than scroll all the way back through my dashboard hoping to spot it, I went to the mass post editor.

Hmmm. I wondered which one of these posts from August 2017 could possibly be mistaken for adult content. Do the Tumblr bots have something against wedding photos? Perhaps the cotton drawers were just a little too risque. It turns out the offending post was the Red Cross canteen worker’s hat.

Please, children, shield your eyes!

I put in an appeal, of course, and got an email within minutes saying the post was restored. I understand what the administrators of Tumblr are trying to do with their Community Guidelines but I can’t help but find the process ridiculous. I had checked on a new follower of my blog just before working on this project and found an entire page of men’s naughty bits in various states of excitement. But at least the Tumblr-verse will remain safe from historic headwear. 

[elevanetheirin]

COME ON TUMBLR stop randomly blocking me from reblogging a post! I am following the damn person who blogged it. I can SEE their blog, I am not BLOCKED but I can’t reblog their post? WTF dude