could you share the trick to get rid of the shadow ban with us? I've been a cone forever now 😭
go into your flagged posts - delete all of them. the reblogs, if you've posted anything yourself specifically (go to the actual post and delete it, not just if you reblogged it), all of it. then you must stop posting anything with the potentially mature content warning for a few days. like literally reblog/post fucking rainbows and kittens and butterflies for a few days. after that, submit an appeal to tumblr. it will take awhile, sometimes several days but then they should give you your blog back. i've done this exact thing twice and it's worked both times for me!
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People like me who've had our accounts terminated have discovered that filling out the Support Form for Terminated Account OR using the email address on file for said terminated account will not get a confirmation email back! Yay?
It looks likely that shadowbanned users (cannot DM, reply, or view posts in notes) are in a similar boat. Reports are that they are not receiving confirmation emails either. I'm working on an up-to-date post on shadowbans and terminations, so I'd like to figure out if that's because of the email address used and/or the category on the Support Form. I can't exactly test this myself either
If you have been shadowbanned in the past week and submitted a support ticket:
Do you get a confirmation email using your correct email address on file and the category My post isn't appearing in the tags?
If not, do you get a confirmation email using your correct email address on file and the category Social features (likes, messaging, follow, asks, or submissions)?
If not, do you get a confirmation email using your correct email address on file and the category Something else?
If not, do you get a confirmation email using an alternate email address on file and the category My post isn't appearing in the tags?
If not, do you get a confirmation email using an alternate email address on file and the category Social features (likes, messaging, follow, asks, or submissions)?
If not, do you get a confirmation email using an alternate email address on file and the category Something else?
If you got a confirmation email for one of these (or another category), stop! Don't put in more tickets after you get a confirmation email. Please reblog this to a sideblog (so I'll actually see the notification) and let me know which one worked. Thanks!
I'm crowdsourcing solutions on how to get out of the shadowban.
Tumblr support's only reply to me was an automated ticket informing me that they have received my query. But not to start another ticket or else my issue will go down the line again.
I've followed the instruction to keep the correspondence within the thread of the automated ticket.
I've tried following up several times but had radio silence since.
I know that a lot of tumblr @staff were let go, but I visited the Reddit tumblracctterminated reddit, and it seems that some had their shadowban lifted a few days ago.
I'm now crowdsourcing here, if this has happened to your own blogs? Should I do another ticket? Or just follow the automated instructions just to keep to my own ticket?
I've seen multiple people I follow, or their mutuals affected by shadow bans lately (makes me wonder if it's @staff's attempts to fight bots going totally haywire). As someone who survived a 2-month-long shadow ban on my main this winter, I thought I'd make a post.
First step of being shadow banned: calm down and take a breath. A shadow ban is just a stupid glitch in tumblr's anti-spam system. You're not losing your blog. You're gonna need a whole lot of patience, and deal with inconveniences, but it's fixable.
Read the incredibly useful post All About Shadowban by @that-damn-girl. It outlines the symptoms quite well. The only thing I'd point out is "your original posts won’t be visible to your followers either" - afaik that doesn't happen. Everything you post and reblog will still be visible to your followers, and also they can interact with your posts - like them, reblog them, reply to them.
Just like the post says, contact support. I recommend using a different email than what your banned blog is registered to; not because your ticket won't go through (mine actually did, as I found out when they finally replied), but because you might not receive an email confirmation for your ticket (it's somehow tied to the anti-spam thing, I think), and you're going to worry and try to send more tickets, like I did.
Now wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. They are SLOW. I've seen some miraculous 1-day unbans in the #shadow ban tag, but most people, like me, wait around a month for support to reply. Those are the same guys going through thousands of bot reports every day in addition to user tickets.
If you're going to wait, might as well keep blogging. Now if this is your sideblog that's shadow banned, consider yourself lucky. Make a new temporary sideblog, use it to post your original stuff so it goes into tags (mind that it might take a few days for a new blog to start showing up in tags). Reblog everything to your shadow banned blog so you still have all content in one place and your followers see it. If it's your main that's banned, you can still do that, but there's the extra pain of not being able to reply to posts or send non-anon Asks, since that is only done from main. Might need to register a separate account for that.
Some more fun facts under readmore.
Fun fact #1
Trying to send support follow-up emails in the request confirmation email isn't going to do anything to speed up the process. But I did tweet at them using this tumblr support summoning picture by @cornmayor and offered a raccoon blood sacrifice to resolve my issue when it was like a month with no response. This is what they replied.
3 hours later I got an email that my shadowban was lifted. I honestly don't know if it was a coincidence, but I mean, this is tumblr staff. Maybe they do accept blood sacrifices.
Fun fact #2
If you're wondering why my shadow ban lasted 2 months if I got a support reply after 1 month, well. It's hard to say exactly how their ban/unban system works bc support replies exclusively with pre-written template sentences, but basically they fucked up. The first time they told me my blog has been restored, I gained pretty much all functions back, except that my posts were still not appearing in tags. Which means probably that being hidden from tags is some kind of different flag on your blog that they forgot to remove. So I had to send a follow-up ticket and wait another month.
My advice is, when they tell you it's fixed, don't take that at face value, go and check all the functions you'd lost (replies, messaging, asks, tagging, appearing in notes, getting mentioned by others).
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Somehow I think my blog is like shadow banned or some shit????
It’s been happening for a bit and it’s a tad frustrating, I check my settings and I have nothing on that would do that.
When I look up stuff I made ok this account it doesn’t show up, if I look stuff up on my own search bar it doesn’t work, my content doesn’t show up in tags, it doesn’t let me comment as this blog, when I tag people I don’t think their getting notifications, I don’t get notifications when I’m tagged. Etc.
It’s not affecting any of my other blogs and it’s confusing. Is there a way to fix that or is tumblr not telling me soemthing…
[Tags to test if I’m stupid when it comes to the tag part, comment if you got the notification] @radiomogai , @theflaggerrrr , @buntress , @enderluna, @webby-mogai, @kiruliom
FYI: I’ve been keeping tabs on the tumblr subreddit, and a ton of people across tumblr are being shadow banned or their accounts are being terminated out of the blue. Back your stuff up if you haven’t people!
Of note: It seems this is especially an issue for VPN users. Personally, I’ve stopped using my VPN while on tumblr for now.
Staff is supposedly down to a skeleton crew, so if you get wrongfully banned or termed, you’re going to be waiting weeks, if not months, or even up to a year for your account to be reinstated.
