A proposal for the community to work on spam on Tumblr - 5 a Day

emergentfutures:

Paul Higgins:

Michael Cote from Climate Adaptation Tumblr (http://climateadaptation.tumblr.com/) asked a question the other day about whether we were getting spam on Tumblr.

I am certainly getting followed by,posts liked by, and re-blogged by other Tumblr sites that are advertising farms or other types of spam such as SEO optimisation sites.

This devalues my experience of Tumblr and also getting a handle on and interacting with the community of people that follow and comment on my posts.

I think that this is something the Tumblr community should do something about and I propose the following:

Every day each of us should commit to checking at least 5 likes or re-blogs or follows and blocking and reporting those that are obviously spam.

For those who do not know how to do this you can put your cursor on a like or a re-blog and the option to block comes up. When you click on it then you are asked whether you want to block that person. If you say yes then the option comes up on the bottom of the screen to report them for spam or harassment (there may be other methods for mobile applications)

If you think that this is a good idea then please re-blog the post rather than just liking it because that will get it out to the community.

What do you say?

I don’t think we can characterize this as spam, which is unwanted information being pushed to us. It’s not bac’n, either, since bac’n is defined as spam that we want to see. Maybe we should call it Fat Back, since they are riding on our backs, and trying to parasitically entrap folks to click through on their notes or reblogs?

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earnmoneywithoutinvestment reblogged this from stoweboyd
freemanwilson answered: Tumblr could do like other sites and have a spam button on the post for people to click, if it is spam, and if a person gets too many, banned
climateadaptation reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:

think, tumblrs? How do we combat spammers?
liber-eclectica answered: I agree with you Paul. There has,of late,been a growing number of artificial accounts out there,diluting the Tumblr experience.Great blog BTW
jackyan reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:

I’ve reported about ﬁve or six...week, i.e. every one I found. Probably
viniciustvd answered: OMFG
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selloutsamizdat answered: Maybe Canadian Bacon, since Canadians are bland and inoffensive.
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tsparks answered: I block “likes” and “follows” from obvious spam accounts
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stoweboyd reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:

we can characterize...unwanted information being pushed
stoweboyd answered: I don’t think we can characterize this as spam. It’s not Bac’n, either. Maybe we should call it Fat Back, since they are riding on our backs?
neenacandy reblogged this from emergentfutures
neenacandy answered: yes,definitely a good idea…thanks!
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