The Great Bot Purge 2018

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purgethebots:

purgethebots:

Tumblr is in an epidemic. The porn bot apocalypse is here. And it’s really, really, really, really, really annoying. Even more annoying than me saying really five times in a row because let’s face it:

• To check more video, clcik here.
• Click here to find onenight stands
• For more more private stuff, come here.
• Looking for fun? Join me here.
• Howdy guy, more private stuff here.
• Howdy bro, my profile here.

Lately the probability of finding a comment like this in the notes has gone up from 100% to a 10000% and it’s seriously impacting our user experience.

I have been here since 2010, @staff. Started out as wolf blog and in 2012 I used to share my poetry and made eight super good friends to which I am still talking today! But now what?

It’s pretty safe to say that there are a number of bot networks active on this website. The one asking for bitcoin and the aforementioned ‘looking for fun’ one for example. The bots follow a pattern and because it’s a network it should be easy to roll up.

I know we always point at @staff to fix this, but honestly, it’s not an easy fix. I know many people block bots, but do we also report and flag them? How does staff respond to flags?

Anyway, here is what I and 10,000 other people who started following this blog over the last 24 hours propose:

We purge the bots. The porn bots. All of them. This is going to be one big COORDINATED effort to destroy the bots!

For one month we are going to report and flag those blogs, and make sure we cut their profits so they don’t make enough money to support their bot network.

It’s very important that we do this as a community. This is a movement. Everyone has to join so we can limit the outcome of this battle to only two possibilities:

1. We win this battle
2. @staff really doesn’t give a shit

Let’s go get them! Join the army @purgethebots

I would like to thank everyone for joining our army and turning on post notifications.  

Here is how we proceed:

Our first objective is to purge the influx of ‘want to have fun?’ bots in the comments. Tumblr’s ToS allows porn blogs, so we don’t flag bot blogs for ‘sensitive content’, but rather for spam. Because that is exactly what they are doing: spamming the comments with unsafe links to shady websites.

We have two types of warriors in our army. Mobile and desktop users.

Mobile users:
If you are on mobile, your options are limited. You can only report comments.

1.  Click on notes
2.  Press or tap a bot comment
3.  Select “Report”
4.  Choose “Block" 

Your task is to report as many bot comments as possible and make a statement to @support​ and @staff​.

Desktop users:

If you’re on desktop, your mission is to flag porn bot accounts. 

1. Click on “Notes" 
2. Click on the avatar of the bot blog 
3. Tap the pawn/human icon
   report > report spam > Flag & Block 

Starting August 1, a new list of ~200 post links divided by zodiac signs will be posted everyday. In order to make things a tad more entertaining, I will give the operations silly or epic titles.

Join us @purgethebots , turn on post notifications so we can coordinate our first attack and prepare yourself for operation:

BE GONE, B O T 

I really feel like im a part of something here