How To See If Your Blog Is Flagged Tumblr

Anonymous asked:

This is a silly question in sure, but I'm curious: Do you get a notification that a post was flagged? I'm just wondering what to be aware of, and have yet to find a good, proper answer.

Not a silly question, Anon! A very valid question.

If by "notification" you mean an email or other message sent from Tumblr to me, then no, I haven't gotten any notifications that posts were flagged.

But if I scroll through my blog (on a computer, don't know what happens in the app) I can find flagged posts because they have a red "Your post was flagged" banner at the top like so:

(Male-presenting nipples cropped out of screenshot in the hopes this post avoids incorrect flagging so it can reach the people who need the info.)

Finding flagged posts is a tedious process, especially since I have 15,000+ to go through. Here's the strategy I've been using to make it slightly more tolerable:

1. Sign into Tumblr on a computer.

2. Go to your Dashboard settings at https://www.tumblr.com/settings/dashboard and turn off endless scrolling. Don't skip this step! It's super important!

3. Go to https://www.tumblr.com/blog/YourTumblrName to see your blog's posts. (Swap in your actual Tumblr's name for the "YourTumblrName" in that URL, of course.)

4. Press Ctrl + F (or ⌘ + F on Mac) to bring up your browser's search box.

5. Search for the word "flag" (without quotes).

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since people are still sharing this post after 12/17, please note that Tumblr's message on the flagged post banners seems to have changed. You'll probably need to search for the word "violation" or one of the other words in the new version of the banner.

^ New banner screenshot by @pixilicious.

The rest of the steps described in this post should work the same, though.

6. If the word is found, check the posts on that page for any of those red warning banners.

7. If one of your original posts* was flagged incorrectly, click the "Review" link. Then click "Request review" in the message that pops up.

8. Click "OK" in the next message that pops up.

9. Your post will have a new, orange banner that says "Your post is in content appeal."

Tumblr will (eventually) email you the results of their review.

10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 as many times as needed.

11. When you've dealt with all of the flagged posts on the first page of your blog, scroll to the bottom and click "Next."

12. Your browser's address bar will now show you're at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/YourTumblrName/2. The "2″ means you're on the second page of your blog, and is the beauty of turning off endless scrolling for this task. Every time you hit the "Next" button, the page number in the URL will change. If you have to take a break from checking your posts for flags before you hit the end of the blog but want to come back later, you can remember which page you were on or bookmark the URL. You can also change the URL to use any page number you'd like to jump through large sections of your blog's history if you're trying to find a specific old post without scrolling forever.

*Note: If a post you reblogged from someone else has been flagged, you won't be given the option to request a review for that one. Because I was collecting a list of flagged post URLs, I did notice that if I clicked a link to a flagged rebloged post in a way that caused it to open on my own blog in Tumblr's little right-side-blog-viewer-thingy, sometimes there was a different option I could click to request the reblogged post be looked at. Your mileage may vary, though, as this seemed kinda inconsistent.

Stats: Early after all the flagging stuff went down, I used the above method to check 221 pages worth of my own blog posts. I found 27 flagged posts–9 original posts and 18 reblogs. I never post adult content here, so none of them were correctly flagged. (They've since been unflagged.)

I had to take a few days off looking after that, but now I've been through a couple hundred more pages and only found one additional flagged post so far–the shirtless Sherlock above. While that one doesn't violate any of Tumblr's rules, I can at least see why maybe it would confuse a bot that was scanning for adult content. The original batch of flagged posts I found were utterly nonsensical–I'll probably post a list of links once I finally make it to the end of my blog.

So it's possible that the flagging bot is less trigger-happy now than it was a few days ago, but I only have my own blog's data to go on. And because it was flagging so arbitrarily at the start and would've deleted posts that took me a long time to write, I don't trust it at all now even if it has chilled out some. Which means I'll still have to find time to dig through a couple more years' worth of posts for no good reason. Thanks again for that, Tumblr. 🙄

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fruehlingssonne said: Okay but a few post I reblogged like ages ago have been flagged (and guess what they are not even porn they are just people kissing and girls naked arms lmao) and tumblr just "told" me. While I'm not "emotionally invested" in those post and would be willing to delete them to keep my blog if necessary I would still like to keep them if possible. Should I delete them or can I just let them stay without consequences?
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