To The People Getting Their Posts Flagged...
...Whether the flagging was justified or not... if you only find out that your post got flagged via followers alerting you to it, and you received no notification from tumblr itself... then PLEASE let tumblr know about this. Along with appealing the flagging if it was unjustified, it’d be a good idea to “report an issue” to them, and let them know that you didn’t receive any sort of notification about your flagged post.
Because apparently you’re supposed to. So, that’s another thing of tumblr’s that’s broken. I already let the @staff know, but they don’t seem to believe me. They keep insisting that we’re supposed to receive a notification, and that everyone already does. There’s only so much I can do to convince them, as a witness, that I’ve read COUNTLESS bloggers only finding out via followers pointing it out to them.
So, it’d help so many people if folks who are affected by this problem, report said problem to the staff, to make sure they’re aware of it.
The only hope for this site is for their awful filtering system to properly learn the difference between “sand dunes” and “send nudes”, is if wrongful flagging is marked as such in the system. But it might get away with countless false-positives if us bloggers aren’t even aware that some of our posts were wrongfully flagged. Thus will never become even close to accurate, thus these stressful false hits will keep continuing.
So, please help the whole community by reporting the lack of notification to tumblr. And please pass this message around, or reword it better than me, or something, so more people can give them a picture of just how catastrophic this problem is. Because they won’t just take my word for it. Thank you.
