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blogoklahoma - October 19, 2011 4:44 PM - Link
ShortFormBlog: More on Tumblr's spam problem

I’ve been fighting this same problem for weeks now. All of a sudden you’ll get a “like” for something you post months ago, and it will get “liked” over and over. The only harm would be for you is if you clicked on one of those spammed likes or reblogs. You could even be forwarded off Tumblr on a few of those spam likes. I really wish Tumblr would fix this.

(via shortformblog)

kateoplis asks: so should I block every last one of them until/IF Tumblr gets it under control? do they in any way harm my traffic?

» SFB says: According to a support e-mail we just got about this, blocking doesn’t have an effect on that. “If you’d like, you can Block any blogs that are…

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  1. nhmortgagebroker reblogged this from shortformblog
  2. blogoklahoma reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    I’ve been fighting this same problem for weeks now. All...a sudden you’ll get a “like” for...
  3. thisisalisha said: I agree with your suggestion and think Tumblr needs to stop beating around the bush to these problems and just man up and get rid of them. Spam issue has been here for a while, just getting worse.
  4. mssnglnk said: Link spam is a huge problem, so I don’t really get why people are so negative about this. Ever since doing this, I’ve had link spam go away significantly.
  5. lookhigh said: Let’s not automatically cut off the “long tail.”
  6. aclutteredmind said: I still have a post legitimately reblogged more than a year later. I’m not in favor of turning off that feature. Maybe if it was an option, rather than automatic?
  7. imwithkanye said: I don’t think that 2 weeks is fair amount of time. One of Tumblrs greatest features is the ability to discover a post all over again. And there are those that float around for an extended period. “Really old” would be months back into the archive.
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