Stop The Bots - Tumblr Posts
opening tumblr once a week to see 99+ notifications.... all of which are bots following is a nightmare on this site
Say hello to your new follower “first name, last name, number.” Say hello to your new follower “first name, last name, number.” Say hello to your new follower “first name, last name, number.” Bites you bites you bites you bites
Every time I get a notification on tumblr it’s guaranteed to be a bot follow. Literally every two days a bot follows me, the longest I’ve gone without getting a bot follower is like maybe a week and that only happened last summer. It’s driving me mad.
Has anyone else’s favorite tags been riddled with bots posting inappropriate content? I’ve been having to report and block so many of them. It’s been a real pain in the neck.
What happens when you don't report pornbots
What you can see here are among the most popular posts for the convin (Connor/Gavin Detroit Become Human) tag for the last month. And presumably lollipop, cityscape, rick day, eva long, dostoyevsky, and all the other random, unrelated tags added to these posts.
You can see two identical posts made by separate bots that feature a bit.ly (so, disguised, you don't know whether the address is safe/where you're going) link to a website that contains an image of a pretty young woman (but who knows what else).
Each post is liked by about a dozen other bots, and only bots. (I reported them all, so can confirm their profiles were obviously those of bots/porn bots.) Some of them even use the same image in the pfp. Some are developed blogs full of porn images, some are clearly newer and don't even have a pfp yet. They are all gaining legitimacy from each other by the likes which act as links to their Tumblrs, and adding legitimacy to the post they have liked, which links to their ultimate goal: the site where they make money in undoubtedly dodgy ways.
They are doing this to legitimise their websites for search engines like Google, but if you don't care about that, it has the same effect in your Tumblr tags.
If we don't stop them, ALL your favourite hashtags are going to be full of meaningless posts like this, and probably porn you don't want to see (very different from porn you DO want to see).
This is why we report and block, lads. Not just because they are annoying and irrelevant to us, but because if we don't stop them they will take over this hellsite, and they very clearly do not understand the nature of the hell in which we live.
EVERYIME I BLINK 18 NEW BOTS HAVE FOLLOWED ME PLEASE HELP