Just a heads up as I’ve been seeing this lately in my lightning bolt tab-
If you interact with me in a follow or like, and I go to your page, and there’s NO REBLOGS, I’m blocking you. I might even report you as spam. Even if you have an avatar and banner, I’m still blocking you. You look like a 🤖 or one of those accounts that tries to look real in order to gain follows, but then the account turns into some scam or pernio thing. Seen it happen on tweet tweet, it can happen here. (Pernio is my censor word for 👉👌 so I try to not draw the 🤖 attention).
If you interact with me with a reblog, follow or like, and I go to your page, you have no banner, no avatar, no bio but you mass RB stuff with no tags, I’m blocking you. You still look like a bot.
To me, RB'ing stuff with no tags looks suspicious. Again, it looks like a blog tryin to gain a following that will later turn into some scam or pernio. Tags are a great feature here and that fact that someone isn’t using ANY is really weird imo.
It’s really not that hard to add tags to posts you RB. Add somethin relevant! Whether what Fandom the thing is from, or what type of post it is, your own thoughts, or the aesthetic, SOMETHIN to prove you are a real human and not some not real blog tryin to look real.
This site has a very big not-real-person problem, and I’m going to be more aggressive when it comes to blocking anyone that looks even mildly like a not real person. If you don’t want to be blocked by many others as well, you need to-
-Put somethin in your bio. Even saying you’re a lurker will be good.
-Have an actual profile pic, not the default shaped icon thingy.
-Have a banner pic, not the default random pattern one.
-Make your blog colourful (optional, but it does tell me an actual person did that)
-Have RB’d posts and put tags on them. Now I do see actual people not put tags on their RB’d posts, but their other actions have made them look like a real person. When some rando with a rando name shows up in my notes tab with no tagged posts and other empty things, it’s a block from me.
You can’t pick and choose what you want to do either. Anythin empty looks suspicious.
I know posts for new users have said you need to have actual pics and haven’t said all the other things I’ve said, but I think that only adding pics isn’t enough. I’ve seen fake blogs do that. I’ve seen fake blogs put in more effort than some newbies to look real.
If your blog is a new side blog, SAY THAT, weather in the bio or a pinned post. I’m guilty of having underdeveloped side blogs that at first glance could be mistaken for not real blogs, but I ALWAYS say it’s a side blog and link my main, where people can CLEARLY see I am a real person. I interact with replies on my posts, I tag everything, my blog has colours.
If you don’t want to link your main for whatever reason (people will see it anyway when you reply to someone on the post) then say it’s a side blog and put some actual work to make it look real.
