#excellent question with a 🤷🏽‍♀️ answer

[swampstew]

Hello~ I saw you've reblogged some of your smut with a community labels tag and I was just curious what your experience with them has been so far?

Some people say they result in shadowbanned content, others say people just don't understand how settings work, etc.

Hello thanks for asking! To be completely transparent with you, I don't always use the community labels mainly because I tend to forget when posting in the moment. That said, before I started to go back and add them manually, only one of my smut posts was ever put under the label by Tumblr staff itself, ironically after I was reporting pornbot blog accounts spamming the tags, and that scared me enough to do a mass edit the first time.

I will say, if you submit your content with the community label when posting, it WILL immediately be censored so if you use tags for reach, the posts may not show up in most tags. At least that was my experience. I don't believe my blog was ever shadowbanned but I did see it happen to a lot of other writers and mutual friends although I am unclear if they were specifically reported for it.

Nowadays, I make explicit disclaimers and warnings in the summary before a read more cut and in tags so people know what they're getting into. After an amount of time, I go back and add the community labels so as not to get reported in the future.

Disclaimers and warnings aside, Tumblr users are responsible for their own reading experience and if they choose to read such content, they are acknowledging that my work is mature and/or dark and they are consenting to read it. If they don't like it, it's not my problem but don't be a dick and report NSFW blogs just because you can (not aimed at you specifically just anyone who does this that resulted in some of my friends abandoning their blogs.)

Hope my experience gives you some insight but tldr; I don't use them at first because it strangles reach but I make appropriate disclaimers and warnings. I add the labels after a few weeks (whenever I remember)

#raven answers #indydonuts #ask box open #excellent question with a 🤷🏽‍♀️ answer #i dont understand how shadowbanning works either #but i pray it dont happen to me #if you dont like mature content simply do not read it