DON’T GET TERMINATED BY “URL HOARDING” PSA

scottlangs:

If you don’t care about this topic or find this stupid, you don’t have to reblog or comment this.

If you paid for an URL, if you have some URLs that mean a lot to you, if you change the URL of your blog very often, READ THIS. BE CAREFUL.

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What you saw is one part of the Tumblr Community Guidelines. They didn’t add the amount of URLs that you can own, but if you have +5 or +10 URLs, you’re in trouble in my opinion. They can’t repare the glitched/void URLs but they really can deactivate your blog just because you own some. They deactivated my entire blog because I had some URLs.

How can I know?

  1. Your blog appears as “Not found.”
  2. You don’t have access to your messages.
  3. You can’t watch your posts or settings, they redirect you to your dashboard.
  4. You can only access to your sideblogs.
  5. They send you an e-mail “ACTION REQUIRED: Release All Unused URLs

    telling you to delete all your URLs and after that process, you can respond the e-mail so they can restore your blog.

What can I do?

  1. DELETE the URLs that you won’t use. Simple.
  2. Save the URLs that you REALLY are gonna use on another account/backup account.
  3. RESPOND the e-mail to the staff. Example: “I don’t own anything, just my main, please restore my blog”
  4. They will respond and letting you know that your blog is restore. They took 13 hours to respond.
  5. DELETE your saved URLs page, if you have one.
  6. STOP TAGGING THE STAFF ACCOUNT. Maybe this sounded like paranoia, but I recently tagged the staff in a lot of posts and later they deactivated my blog. Coincidence? I think not.

There’s n*zis, p*dophiles, inc*st, zooph*lia blogs and porn bots but Tumblr almost deleted my entire blog just because “URL hoarding”. Think about that

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