DEAR TUMBLR: STOP STEALING THE URLS OF YOUR ACTIVE, DEDICATED USERS. (PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND REBLOG THIS POST TO SPREAD THE WORD.)
On and around November 13 and 14, tumblr started deleting people’s accounts as well as taking people’s urls – most of them being canon fandom-related urls as seen in the list below.
The following users had their urls stripped away from them on November 14, and were given placeholder urls like blog0294324.
- blackwidow (currently natasharomanovs)
- sebastianstan / barnes (currently blog294732 and blog125473 respectively)
- clintbarton (currently clintbarton-url-stolen)
- sansa (currently blog09573)
- wonder-woman (currently theodora-crain)
- civilwars (currently blog539338)
every person on the above list got their urls LEGITIMATELY, they were NOT sold, nor traded, nor bought. They were GIVEN to them fair and square (or they were lucky enough to save them). [[I PERSONALLY can vouch that I saved the url civilwars in 2016 and GAVE IT TO the person who previously had it about a month ago. There was NOTHING against the Terms of Service with the way that url was acquired.]]
[On November 13, I, tumblr user marvel (currently marvelterminated), was accused of selling urls, and had my entire account terminated wrongfully. I don’t think it was a coincidence that less than a day after my account was terminated, many of my friends had their urls taken away from them.]
Also, these are not isolated incidents. There are also reports of people saving a url, and then tumblr emailing them after TAKING THEIR URL AWAY saying they were “in the process of releasing the url for another user when you grabbed it” which is just wrong. This happened to tumblr user wanda, who changed her url to “bucky” and then very shortly afterward had it taken away from her. Tumblr user ralts had saved “entertainment” in this way and also had it taken from her.
Tumblr: you can fix this and do what’s right. You have the power to stop further damage. Why would you want to punish your dedicated userbase, instead of the actual evils that plague your site? So hundreds of thousands of porn bots are okay, but fandom blogs aren’t? This isn’t a small issue. This needs to be fixed and remedied. We will not be quiet about this. This is WRONG.
Let me reiterate: we will NOT be silent about this. This is gross misuse of power. We politely, yet persistently ask that you REINSTATE our blogs and our URLs.
SIGN THE PETITION HERE.
#URLPurge2018
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