#also don't engage them directly likd seriously don't waste the time and energy giving them attention

[oldearthaccretionist]

Some days I see a stupid thing on a post and just block the user. Other days I feel like attempting a public service and scroll through their blog briefly to see if my instinct is right and they have shit that violates the TOS and is reportable before I block.

Today is the second kind of day.

When I do this I generally don't have ti go more than 2 pages in (and honestly never do because I do not enjoy hate scrolling) to find stuff. And for this one the first page alone had multiple instances of suicide baiting people they disagreed with... so reminder telling people to kill themselves, threatening/encouraging or glorifying violence, denigrating people on the basis of protected classes and hate speech are actually all violations of the TOS. Is Tumblr always good at actually getting rid of this stuff? No. But if it crosses your dash you can always report it with your block and give them a chance of experiencing a consequence/inconveniencing their continued pattern of being shit to other human beings on this platform.

#suicide mention #well suicide baiting mention #seriously #if i get the vibe they're likely one of the people that engages in that i almost always check to report before i block #and like the vibe rarely lies #there's a certain tone and phrasing of shittiness that routinely accompanies it #I'm sure it's a case of almost all people who use that type of rhetoric engage in suicide baiting/ exortations to violence but many others #who engage in the same don't use the same #so I'm not claiming a sixth sense of being able to find all people who do it from single shitty replies... just that certain shitty replies #are highly correlated with that even shittier harmful behaviour #if you do this #for your own mental health like literally just limit yourself to two pages before the block. don't lock yourself into a hate scroll and come #out feeling worse than you have to #just cursory check for anything blatant then block and move on with your life #also don't engage them directly likd seriously don't waste the time and energy giving them attention #that they are probably looking for with their shittiness #that just encourages more shittiness #not that they'll stop if you don't but it's about what your time and mental/emotional energy is worth