Anonymous asked: Isnt threatening to spam report that person, just to get his blog deleted, a douche move?
[Edit: Wrote this answer this morning and queued it. The blog in question is now flagged, but putting this post out there so as to explain my perspective.]
Let me quickly unload that question first by saying I’m not out to get the blog deleted, I’m out to get it flagged.
If the mod refuses to do it, I’ll ask Tumblr Staff to do it through their reporting system.
Past that, let’s recap on this, since I haven’t added much context in my previous posts…
An unflagged blog is posting clop in the brony tag. And I don’t mean suggestive poses and bedroom eyes here, I’m talking full detail front and rear, animated, the works.
Tumblr has a system for controlling this – flagging and the padlock in the top right of searches:
That little closed padlock means “I don’t want to see at porn at the moment because of reasons” and Tumblr will hide that NSFW content.
Then if you want to see adult content, you can unlock that lil’ dude and Tumblr will show all content from all blogs.
The way Tumblr knows what to block is via the Adult Content setting. Responsible moderators can mark their blogs as NSFW so people are about to CHOOSE if they see them or not when browsing the public spaces.
I have spent literally a week sending asks and reblogging to a (flagged) side blog with messages saying “Please flag your blog so it doesn’t appear in SFW searches. Here’s how to do it…”
The mod did put out a message saying that he’d been receiving complaints from people asking him to flag the blog, to which I replied saying words to the effect of; This isn’t personal, I’m not angry, I don’t have a problem with what you’re doing, I just don’t want to see it when my dash is in SFW mode.
I am not being unreasonable. I have repeatedly politely asked the mod to take responsible action and he is failing to do so.
It will take the mod literally ten seconds to flag the entire blog, past, present, and future – and then it’s content will not appear in SFW searches for both tumblr and other search engines.
Need I remind you all that we bronies take flak every day for R34 in public spaces – and people like this mod are not helping us fix this problem.
Once again, I do not mind R34 content – but we want to choose where and when we see it.
Hey, I'm not alone on the asks!