Sc’s tumblr blog terminated – temporary account deletion?

I finally took some time to get to our tumblr blog and update with some sexy sayings and quotes, but when I clicked over to our add some stuff I was greeted with this notice saying account terminated.

I found this quite strange. Our tumblr blog was set up as a way to gather together sexy quotes and few sexy, but not nude or hardcore pics. A way to let users of scsc who also use tumblr to connect with us and follow our posts there. We also enjoy promoting the service as I think it is was of the easiest and fastest ways for the average person to setup a blog and start posting pics, videos, words, etc. Quickly, and very easily.

Tumblr has also had a wide range of porn pics shared by thousands of people. Tons of animated gifs and even some videos. It’s a great place to do some searches around things you like, find others who are posting similar sexy pics and follow them to get more in your dashboard. It’s easy to spend many hours scrolling through naughty posts that others have made or reblogged from other people they follow.

Another tumbling friend also had her account recently terminated, but she was able to send a message to support and get her account reinstated.

There is this message that appears you try to login to tumblr if you have been deactivated. It says something like “Your account has been terminated. To find out why contact support.” The words “contact support” are a hyperlink to send an email to ask why. So I sent in a question about why they would choose to delete our account, and I got some generic reply (within 24 hours I think!) about how their terms do not allow for spam or affiliate marketing or something.

This had to be some kind of mistake – we did not use our blog there for spamming or for any kind affiliate marketing. So I wrote back and explained there must be a mistake, that our blog was absolutely not doing any affiliate marketing or spam, please check it manually. It has now been a couple of days, and I have not heard back from them.

I do not know if this is some kind of computer program that is going through blogs there and auto-flagging them as being outside the terms, or if this was something that humans glanced at and decided to mark it as deserving a deletion, they have not said. I did some checking around the internet and it seems many others have run into similar issues.

I would love to hear what is going on over there with these issues. I can understand if another user flags a blog as posting something that is against the rules, and I can understand if an experienced team member is looking at blogs and deactivating them, but I have a hard time believing that this would be the case with our blog there. There is tons of porn, videos and gifs of guys stroking their dicks, girls (and guys) getting fucked in the ass, all kinds of naughty and fun stuff within the tumblr ecosystem, so glancing at our pg rated and marking it as something to delete – I find that hard to believe that an experienced moderator would do that. Maybe they have brought in some new people who are quicker on the deletion finger, maybe they have not spider bots that are trying to get rid of spam and they are not trained well.

So I waited a couple of day and did not hear back from their customer support, and decided to write again and describe the situation in a bit more detail. Some time has pass and I have no idea if they are going to send this to someone higher up in the moderation team, or if some support person is going to see it and just click delete.

It concerns me that people could spend a bunch of time creating posts, sharing pictures, writing things to share, customizing the tumblr themes, and then have them deleted without any notification, and with support that may be quick to answer, or may just leave your hanging. Not only did we spend a fair amount of time trying to find things to reblog there that were naughty but not x-rated, we also have spent time promoting the blog and the service in general in multiple places around our site here, our wordpress blog, our google plus page, and several other places as well.

I’ve had nothing but good things to say about the tumblr portal over the years, but I am starting to wonder if things are changing around there, or we’ve just been lucky in our previous experiences there.

This serves as a warning and reminder to back up your posts, pics, and other data when you share your stuff via online services. Don’t count on f-book, or any other places to save your precious pictures or thoughts – if it’s important save an extra copy (or two) in other places.

I had thought since our blog was so pg rated that we would not get deleted, we wrote about the goal of blog on the custom about us page, and made other custom mods like the header image and such. These things took precious time, and we were happy to invest that time in place that we felt comfortable being a part of. Unfortunately I did not backup the data from there, and there appears to be no way to get an export while the account is in suspension / terminated.

I have looked into ways to export the data from tumbler, and found that you can import your posts into a wordpress site. There is not an easy “export all of your posts, pics, videos, custom theme options, friend list, messages, etc” inside tumblr from what I can tell at the moment, there is a way to have a wordpress system pull in your posts.

I am working on a tutorial to show people how to import tumblr blogs into a wordpress site.

My tumblr friend Jenny had messaged me about getting deleted and we started looking at ways to do an export. She was lucky enough to have the first customer support person there apologize for the mistake and reactivate her account. The next day we started looking into methods of backing up her posts.

I will post a quick tutorial about the process, maybe on this page here or via another post in the site blog, or perhaps in the peeps section. We have the option for people to create a wordpress blog / site in the peeps section, and it is possible to import your tumblr into your account there. It is also possible to export your tumblr to adultsonlyspace.com and other similar wordpress powered sites.

While we do not have the same themes that tumblr has, we have some that are similar, and some customization is possible. There is no way to export your friend and followers from tumblr that I can tell, but at least you can backup your posts.

You can see a basic tumblr export / import from Jenny’s tumblr to this sexy stuff blog here in the peeps section.

She may decide she wants a different theme, or to modify the base theme, but for now at least her reblogged pics and original poetry has been saved / backed up. Now that the data has been pulled from tumblr to wordpress, the option to click “export” is an option, where it will save an xml data feed to her own computer, so she’ll have a double backup of sorts. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than losing everything you have posted, and losing it without notice.

Tumblr should really email people when they delete their accounts. Tumblr should have a better system in place to find and ascertain a pure spam blog. Tumblr are you listening? If you guys need help I can show a dozen spam blogs there and tell you what to look for. Certainly a custom modded theme should of been a clue that our blog setup there was not for spamming, and since there was no affiliate content or anything, I’d like to suggest that your people should be getting better training or better testing before they start wiping out data without notice.

My 2 cents at 3am. More info on this later I guess. Hopefully our blog will get reinstated, and I will have a couple of tutorials with screenshots showing people how to make a backup and save themselves from the stress of losing everything and having no way to get it back.