savvyblunders:

burning–amber:

hakka84:

jeonsdear:

jeonsdear:

jeonsdear:

jeonsdear:

Attention Gif Makers

Do NOT put your credit in the caption. Tumblr deleted blogs that post and reblog content containing links in the caption. It happened to me and now it happened to @softjeon .

I’m in class so I can’t explain but please consider putting your link in the tags. It can seriously harm your blog and your followers.

If you want to know staff’s explanation, let me know and I can send you their email I received after they brought back my blog.

Stay safe and please reblog

Notice that neither of us reblogged porn or a link directing to porn whatsoever. We assume file share links like media fire and upload are risky and twitter and YouTube links

It looks like her trigger was giving credit to a twitter account (link in the caption)

Some people are confused as to what I mean with ‘caption’ so here’s an example:

“love” redirects to the source and CAN  trigger an automatic termination of your blog. 

What can you do if you find yourself not able to access your blog?

In general, all your information such as your URL; followers; posts, etc is not deleted. But you can’t access your Blog nor can other’s do anything else but tag you. 

If you find yourself logged out, use the contact formula at the bottom of the log in page and choose ‘terminated account’ as the reason you’re contacting support and write them a short but detailed explanation of your problem. And then you have to wait. Tumblr might send you an E-Mail letting you know they received your messages. Be aware it can take a while for them to investigate the problem so try not to freak out.

The people I know of got their blog back so don’t worry too much.

Stay safe !

The reply from staff talked about a “deceptive” link, so the issue isn’t the credit itself but the way you post it.
From what the wording suggests, a more clear text (say, “original on twitter”) [or, even better, follow the instructions in this post] should be fine because it’s not deceptive (you have told your readers that, by clicking, they’ll go to twitter).

One solution could be posting the url without making it a click-through link, so a “twitter.com/[etc]” as text.

Okay so to me it seems like, Tumblr is trying to fight the porn bot problem. And it’s tricky to do that, as this post shows. However, the reply from Tumblr mentions two things “deceptive link” and “explicit post”. That makes more sense if they are trying to fight porn. 

They aren’t trying to stop folks from linking all together, imo. Why have the feature otherwise? But if we reblog someone’s post and it has a link pointing somewhere outside tumblr, I guess it’s our responsibility to first check that link before we reblog.

And @hakka84 has linked above on how to credit properly for GIF makers. That post explain better how a link to credit can be potentially flagged.

Here’s tumblr’s policy from their website – https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community – 

• Deceptive or Fraudulent Links. Don’t post deceptive or fraudulent links in your posts. This includes giving links misleading descriptions, putting the wrong “source” field in a post, setting misleading click-through links on images, or embedding links to interstitial or pop-up ads.
• Misattribution or Non-Attribution. Make sure you always give proper attribution and include full links back to original sources. When you find something awesome on Tumblr, reblog it instead of reposting it. It’s less work and more fun, anyway. When reblogging something, DO NOT inject a link back to your blog just to steal attention from the original post.

Reblogging for the clarification/information provided by @hakka84 and @burning–amber.