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nonsenseplayercharacter:

As the new Tumblr feature has rolled out, everyone\u2019s been having a lot of fun seeing ad pvp, gay hobbits, random people\u2019s pets, and even the limited time weed discount. But uh. I\u2019ve discovered something potentially really bad about Blaze.

Blaze does not filter blocked tags.

Luckily I don\u2019t have any tags blocked for serious reasons\u2013I block the furry tag because blocking nsfw wasn\u2019t enough to keep sketch art off what the algorithm wanted for my dash, and I block homestuck because. Well I don\u2019t even know why; I click every post with it but like. it\u2019s there as a warning or something I don\u2019t know.

ANYWAYS I\u2019ve gotten ads for both of these tags, one a furry artist with open commissions (their art was great, good on them for advertising an actual product /gen) and the other an ad for the Homestuck Discord server. Neither of them were blocked on my dashboard.

This is an important issue because of the way Tumblr is filtering Blaze posts. While Blaze posts are put through a screening process, it\u2019s not very vigorous. One post tagged \u2018sex\u2019 and another containing the entire Bee Movie script were allowed past the filters. As with the previous ads, these ads in particular are fine. However, Tumblr\u2019s leniency with this can cause issues to people blocking tags for serious reasons. For example, a post tagged unreality and boosted using Blaze would still show up on somebody\u2019s dash who needs it filtered.

So, what do we do? Let me be clear, I am escatic for Blaze to roll out for all users. I think it\u2019s a fantastic idea. In addition, I don\u2019t want the solution to be \u201cbetter\u201d screening for Blaze posts. Tumblr has always been the website that lets you say die. I want to keep it as such. However, I think it\u2019s very important that @staff try to please implement a feature within Blaze that allows ads to be filtered by blocked tags. Either by checking if a user is blocking a tag before selecting them to see it, or by blocking it on their dash. Clearly the first is ideal but I\u2019m not a web developer (I\u2019m barely a developer at all), so whatever can be done to make sure this feature can be implemented safely is important to me.

Thanks for reading this if you did, I\u2019m not sure how to get the word out but I want people to be informed before anything bad potentially happens.

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