Have anyone of you encountered a fake-block bug on Tumblr? (EDIT: Apparently, at least partly a lie.

Discussion in 'General Advice' started by unknownanonymous, Apr 25, 2015.

  1. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    Like, something that causes all the effects of a block, like ghost notes, and yet nobody blocked anybody. 'Cause, two years, I suddenly became unable to contact a friend of mine, whom I only managed to accidentally get back in contact with this year. When we got back in contact, they said that they missed me and had thought I left Tumblr - even though I hadn't and was trying to contact them when the strange fake-block shut happened. So yeah, that doesn't suggest any blocking going on...

    And I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything on anon that would've made them block me, which would've been permanent and something they wouldn't be aware of 'cause anons can't be unblocked. Could someone with my IP address have done something? (But no, I recall I moved houses so that seems like less of a possibility,)

    What the hell could've even happened? I just don't get it...

    Is it anything like the vastderp-placeholder problem?
     
  2. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    hmmm i get ghost asks a lot, but i've only blocked, like, three blogs ever and they were all porn bots so i don't know. when i say ghost asks i mean i repeatedly get ask notifications and no asks are visible. also some people i know are following me are only sometimes visible in my follower list.
     
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  3. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    @Deresto thank you!
    that sounds like it's in the same vein of the problem i'm having, so yeah... that's reassuring
    i now know i'm not crazy or whatever, which was something this was really making me worry about
     
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  4. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    bumping 'cause this glitch pretty much repeated itself, except with a different blog, which is a main blog - not a sideblog - and owned by the same person

    this time i know:
    - their posts don't appear on my dash
    - anon asks work a-okay (like, without me doing anything weird or complicated, just choosing "anon" when i'm in their askbox instead of "70sarcasmandbowties")
    - my notes don't appear on their posts
    - i can see their posts in the tags just fine
    - they have not indicated to me (with words) that they are pissed at me; honesty has been established as an important principle of our relationship
    - i haven't done anything i expect would bother them
    - my non-anon ask has not been answered yet
     
  5. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox

    iirc, the first 'symptom' of luka's tumblr bug was that it was acting like he'd blocked me, which he obviously hadn't. or maybe like i'd blocked him, i forget which. @Vast Derp it's been a while and i'm forgetting details, does this sound like the same thing?
     
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  6. seebs

    seebs Benevolent Dictator

    Luka's broken blog cannot generate notes, at all, on anything. Nothing it does generates notes. You can still see the posts if you follow the blog, but if he posts in response to you, there's no note on your post, as I recall.
     
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  7. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    @jacktrash thanks!
    that is really reassuring.

    @seebs thanks!

    my rp sideblog has that problem, haha. i don't think it has the rest of the stuff but it has that. and my main blog can still generate notes. just not for them.

    also, it has been established that their blogs are hella glitching and have been since maybe yesterday, so that's another point in favor of this being a glitch. that and them not blocking me on the one blog of theirs that i can do all tumblr functions with.

    (the multiple accounts/blogs thing is 'cause of roleplaying, btw. they play a few characters. so yeah, thank god for roleplaying!)

    so yeah, i'm very grateful to all of you: @jacktrash @seebs @Deresto!
     
  8. Vast Derp

    Vast Derp Professional Griefer

    nothing i post on the broken blog appears in the tags, ever. even retroactively, all is deleted from the tags. when i contacted staff they said it would take a "very long" time to fix. afaik, it's still broken after a year and change
     
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  9. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

  10. winterykite

    winterykite Non-newtonian genderfluid

    the same thing happened to me, there was one person i was friends with whose posts just stopped appearing on my dashboard, and they wouldnt respond to asks, and i guess the same thing happened here.
     
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  11. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

  12. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    update: have any of you encountered a thing in which tumblr redirects you to the url "n---," which has nothing there?
    'cause that's happening, along all the other Glitch stuff. and like, in general, the Glitch is getting worse today.
    and so far, all signs suggest that they do still like me (they were pretty excited about an ask they thought was from me, they were glad to see me after the last time we didn't talk for a while, and as i said before, honesty is a big thing) so... i don't think i'm blocked. it has to be the Glitch.
    but man, this is driving me crazy. we should've agreed on another site or exchanged emails or something the last time we talked.
     
  13. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    "n---" is not a thing on the tumblr mobile app, so i'm guessing it is a coded redirect or something and does that for everyone
    though if it was, i'd expect them to give some warning about it
     
  14. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    it turns out that they don't wanna be in contact with me anymore
    i don't know why and now i feel like a bad person
     
  15. Morven

    Morven In darkness be the sound and light

    Well, people who talk to someone friendly and then suddenly up and block them don't sound like the kind of person you want to be friends with. The kind of person you want to talk to ... y'know, communicates what's up, not just blocks someone out of the blue with a redirect script.
     
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  16. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    @Morven Good point. And I thought they would be blunt about it. I thought being blunt about things was something they were good at, and willing to be. Apparently not.
     
  17. Lissa Lysik'an

    Lissa Lysik'an Dragon-loving Faerie

    It sounds to me like what you thought was "blunt and upfront" was being rude, and when it came time to being really honest they didn't know how to do it so just blocked.
    Being blocked is not a sign that you are a bad person, it is a sign that the other person doesn't know how to communicate. And if they do it off and on it is a sign that they have an issue of their own going on.
    If I assume the worst about you (and this is a head game to figure things out, not a judgement of you) then it might be you say things in ways that bother them. That still doesn't make you a bad person. Being rude is an art form many of us develop as a self-defense mechanism but others have innate and have to work to overcome, but it doesn't make you a bad person either way.
     
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  18. Lissa Lysik'an

    Lissa Lysik'an Dragon-loving Faerie

    Moving my answers here from teh hugbox since this is the more appropriate thread - but what was there applies here as well
     
  19. Lissa Lysik'an

    Lissa Lysik'an Dragon-loving Faerie

    From the Hugbox @unknownanonymous
    "those emotional games really suck, particularly when the person playing them appears as though they'd never do such a thing. like, they never struck me as afraid to say when he was mad at people or things or just didn't like them. and they hate it when people play emotional games with them. just... i was so sure they knew better than do that stuff. that they knew it was wrong. haha, apparently not!

    and if i scared them, 'cause they have had some really fucked-up experiences with people and i might've accidentally reminded them of that, well, i guess can understand them not wanting to confront me but... it would've been so much better if they were just fucking honest, like i used to think they would be.

    just... this is fucked up and i wish it was just a bad dream but i know it's not. dreams feel different, unfortunately."

    This is the kind of thing that has always made me leery of people online. They present as having the stoicism to handle social/relationship problems easily - but when one actually happens to them directly they suddenly revert to childish "plug my ears and yell nanana until you go away". It is not a reflection on YOU when they do that, it's a case of "oops, the false front failed".
     
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  20. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    @Lissa Lysik'an thanks! that helps!

    just... i could've taken it, if only they were honest.

    and the worst thing is: if they came back and said they were sorry, i'd forgive them immediately... don't know whether i'd believe them but i'd probably forgive them anyway.
     
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