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A blog managed by @thewanderingcotabus to help users identfy and block the spam bots that are running rampart on tumblr.

[thewanderingcotabus]

(Kinda) Short update on things

Think its a time for some short updates on how things are progressing in terms of backlog and what to expect in the coming months.

First of all for several weekends in May, June and the first half of July my blog posting times might be later than normal, delayed till the next day or done a day early depending on the weekend events going on that weekend

5/2 & 5/3 - Community yard sale and free cycle event where I live. Given its the first of the month blog wise and the weather (way colder than normal) changing things to be more split between the days has made things more problematic this year. As a result all of Saturday's normal and monthly posting/queueing will be on Friday afternoon/evening. Sunday's Surge tank and Alternate's postings will either be later than normal or postponed till Monday afternoon.

5/30 - Different community yard sale I go to. Will likely do my Saturday postings/queueing on Friday again. Sunday shouldn't be affected unless something unexpected happens.

6/20 - Pride Month parade/march In my city. Saturday postings will be on Friday. Sunday will be normal.

7/4 & 7/5 - 4th of July Events. Saturday's postings will be Friday Morning. Sunday's postings are expected to go on as normal unless weather delays events Friday night/Saturday. Should that happen then Sunday's postings will be moved to Monday.

7/11 - Book Fair for the city library. Saturday's postings will likely be later than normal.

Also I did a queue test on alternate and set it to 50 posts a day to see what would happen and to make room to clear out more bookmarks. I might do this again as needed for Surge tank and Alternate but will announce it a couple days before doing so and only keep it at 50 posts for a day or 2 before turning it back to what it was before.

[toadalled]

Pride Month is upon us again and so it is time to repost my little guy, Hue! I’m wishing everyone a safe, supportive, positive, and enlightening Pride, whether you’re all the way “out” or not!

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5/3/26

Well right after the last post a couple more bots were caught and one bot that tagged me today also exposed 3 additional bots. The following bots have been caught

icilytremendousarchivist sinister9400 wpatientstoriesgy dgoldenstoriesdq fkindechoeshf (already shadow banned from search but still blockable) yradiantdiarysn

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4/29/26

The following spam bots have been caught while I scold Ignis and Mort the elemental titans for driving everyone nuts arguing over "Does who have butt hair and how long is it if they did?" (don't ask why that topic of all things)

alexalinda7

vinnyazposts-blog

mariasutton

isenhart293u

energyprison

[thewanderingcotabus]

Small update in regards to the "DA crisis"

I didn't announce it when I actually finished but the "Surge tank" folder for Deviant Art is completely empty now. I have started to slowly clear out the "Backlog" folder for Deviant Art. This folder will take longer to go through as its all artists I haven't had the chance to go through when I initially found them and to add to it I also have to sort out stuff between alternate and surge tank.

In addition Surge Tank's queue has been turned up to 10 posts a day and will remain that way for a week or 2. Alternate's queue may also need to be turned up and maybe even the OG if enough surge tank overflow turns up.

I am also clearing up backlog for Pinterest bookmarks off and on when there is nothing to do at works though that's just snowballing into its own mess to handle at a later time.

Finally Blue Sky has joined "WEBPstation" in forcing everything into WEBP formate >(. This wouldn't be an issue if @staff had proper support for both uploads and copy paste web urls that are in WEBP format. They already force WEBP for GIFs and images in select other areas so why are you not adding support for uploads/urls in the WEBP format???

[thewanderingcotabus]

It's not looking too good ahead...

it seems everything and everywhere around the world is going to hell and turning into a chocolate covered cluster F (aside from Hytale releasing, That's the only good thing for me right now!). To keep to the point I'm only posting what is affecting ALL TWCB blogs, Even Rogue Knight is not immune this time around.

You may have noticed the last couple of days Surge Tank has well... surged in posts, with all of them from Deviant Art. This is due to a very bad decision Deviant art has done in the last 2 weeks. Deviant Art has in their growing list of poor choices has limited downloads for non core members to 10 Downloads a WEEK. Yep you read that right: 10 Downloads a WEEK! Core members are limited to 150 a week. Basically Deviant Art is now paywalling downloads that were previously free in an effort to con unsuspecting users to buy core. Hell even my Uber driver this morning said this was the scummiest thing ever and he dosen't use deviant art. They claim its to block Bots scraping the site but all staff did was list 2 random accounts that had over 40k downloads in a month. They more than likely themselves used an AI to figure out the average number of downloads and didn't factor out inactive/new users and just did a blanket limit for everyone.

Certain communities on Deviant Art are now completely cooked in particular certain RPG groups and 3D modeling groups (XNA Laura is one example I sometimes mess with just for fun). In addition art archivists, myself included, are also completely screwed (though I think some on there are actually scrapers pretending to be archivists).

So how is this affecting TWCB/Me?: In addition to the download limit it seems Deviant Art is also trying to block right clicking since I had an extremely hard time Sunday when I wanted to share things to Surge Tank. When I share something to Surge Tank, I copy the image link to Tumblr then copy what I need to make the post (See example below)

[Example, Screenshot is mine but not officially posted anywhere yet]

Hytale: Dockside Eating Area at Outpost Tavern (This would link to the page)

By Tape_City

More often than not it took multiple tries to share one item. Thankfully after a while the issue seems to have gone away but regardless trouble is brewing. As a result I'm taking every free moment I have to try and clear out every single Deviant Art bookmark both in the Surge Tank folders and the backlog folders. There's going to be a lot more posts on Surge Tank and some stuff may also be sent to the main blog's queue since as of this post, Surge tank's queue is completely full. Alternate may also see a surge in activity as I catch up to newer bookamrks. It doesn't help matters that Art Station and Newgrounds (I havn't really bothered to wander around the latter) are forcing the WEBP format that Tumblr doesn't support for uploads but are all to happy to force on GIFs if I want to save one.

If any more significant disruptions arise for any given reasons, I may just park the buses permanently.

[wanderingcotabusagainstspambots]

3/15/26

The following spambots have been caught while I deal with some angey outlanders in Hytale (they're mad because i literally stole and moved their houses from 4 different docks and a small area to my claim)

derrt43 holwaysonnette794b thatbandguydoesyugioh mariasutton

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2/15/26

The following spam bot was caught as i figured out how a chicken spawner works in a hytale mod on a server.

bartee768h

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2/14/26

Love is in the air and so are the spambots...

The following spambot has been caught after tagging me in a completely random post:

zwittyventurebv

In addition a Rule 8 violation occurred this week and the following user is now banned from all TWCB blogs except this one until they contact me on this blog

mormegiil

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2/8/26

While having fun playing Hytale and messing around with things. The following spam bot tried to socialist me for P**n via DM

charlottemary9632

[wanderingcotabusagainstspambots]

Got tagged in a weird af post by dcreativeventureaq with one of those links (I didn’t open it) 😭 might sound like a stupid question but is this like a problem or should I just ignore it

It's a problem, report the account as a bot/spam. My main has had a number of these tag me off and on since October.

[wanderingcotabusagainstspambots]

12/22/25

The following spambots were caught after one of the bots tagged me in a random post with a link leading to... well you can guess.

tboldjourneyby dcreativeventureaq tboldhorizonpu idynamicvisionmg

[thewanderingcotabus]

Tumblr hiatus will end soon (I hope)

As of today I have started to very slowly make my rounds on all tumblrs i had been following since i stopped actively wandering around the site itself (March 1st 2024). I haven't figured out how to go about wandering about on here once all caught up. So if anyone is here after getting a crap ton of likes/reblogs now (or in the future from the queue) and wondering WTF is going on well this is why (and sorry for blowing up your notifications as I get caught up)

Also I am still slowly clearing backlog as time allows (which is hit or miss given the holidays, MCTA, and once Hytale drops)

For the foreseeable future, Alternate's queue will remain at 10 posts a day as the backlog for it is out of control (thanks pinterest). The OG Blog and Surge tank likely won't have their queues turned up any time soon.

Finally any hostility in regards to either the OG Blog or Alternate WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Those who break Rule 9 on any TWCB blog will very likely get blocked from all blogs aside from the anti spam bot blog and may also be listed there as being blocked. There has already been one incident this week on Alternate and last week a similar incident on the main blog last week though the latter was already deactivated by the time I saw that notification.

[wanderingcotabusagainstspambots]

12/19/25

its my birthday and while no spam bots have come my way, a user broke a rule when commenting on a post from The Alternate Wandering COTA Bus.

iosefkaclinic broke rule 9 when commenting on a post from Alternate on Wendsday 12/17/25 and quickly either deleted their comment or tumblr hid the comment. As a result this user after this post will be banned from ALL blogs (Except this one).

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11/30/25

Tis the season to forget you have spambots caught....

Fa la la la la la la la... DOH!

Anyways heres a list of bots caught over ??? weeks now

pcreativeminddo suniquethoughtslx dashswell0u812 skybum

anatolik8

noramaria11

In addition the following user was kicked off the bus

thevilelands

[thewanderingcotabus]

Tis the season...

Couple small updates to pass along:

I'm Likely going to turn the post count on Alternate back up to 10 a day as the queue is full there again

Art Station is seemingly trying to force WEBP downloads instead of png/jpg again. I encountered that BS again and also now can confirm as well that Art Station is in fact censoring art at random as one artist has complained that various artworks are simply not being shown to anyone even themselves and is likely going to leave the site. As a result I'm going to try when I have free time to do so flush out as much art station bookmarks as I can to the surge tank.

Finally if you happen to see any post on any of the blogs being flagged as mature, please notify me so I can appeal the flagging and pester @staff. This applies to TWCB, Surge Tank, TAWCB, TWCB Limbo, and Rogue Knight (anti spam bot blog isn't really affected by this)

[thewanderingcotabus]

Small Update in regards to Ads...

After further investigation by Solaris the light super titan the ads are not what I thought they'd be and instead are something like the image below (example posted by Staff)

So its just going to be an annoying banner ad on the bottom. Still though please make sure you have an ad blocker (preferably Ublock) as malware can be hidden in ads and run automatically without you knowing (the chances are low but never zero). I know staff are trying to keep the platform hence why this is happening now but ill leave it up to you to decide to block or not. I still have concerns over what ads even are appearing in the first place though.

Also The Alternate Wandering COTA Bus's Queue has been turned back to 10 posts a day and the End times for Queued post for OG, Surge Tank and Alternate has been changed from 9pm to 7pm. Alternate's Queue is full and there's a lot of backlog right now found for Alternate and i want to get the backlog folder cleared out.

Finally there's no update to the Ghost notes on Alternate itself and its freekin' driving me nuts. Why can't Staff give us an option to see ALL notes so I can actually Identify potential spambots, list the bots caught on the anti spambot blog and block them.