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tumblr.com gets autobanned on reddit. sigh

• worldsayshi 14y ago
  Huh? You mean by vote?
  • stesch 14y ago
    No. Every post with a tumblr.com link gets automatically banned. A week ago I posted something to a subreddit I've founded and it got banned. This spam filter isn't even allowing moderators to post these links. But I was allowed to unban it. So, I wrote to the moderators of /r/technology a few minutes ago and instead of unbanning it they said that tumblr.com is banned reddit wide. No, he hasn't unbanned the link. :-(
    • colechristensen 14y ago
      Despite the occasional high value link, the reddit ban on tumblr makes reddit better.
      • colmvp 14y ago
        Whereas quickmeme.com is edifying?
        • colechristensen 14y ago
          Fortunately or not, there are whole sections of Reddit devoted more or less to quickmeme.com. Some subreddits auto-ban quickmeme which I highly encourage, but a sitewide ban is unreasonable because of how engrained it is in the culture. Image captioning is, in our opinion, a bit worthless, but this is what we actually find objectionable not just one site of many which provides this. Blogging itself is not what is objectionable just the general quality of the content from Tumblr, so comparing quickmeme to tumblr is unfair.
          • stesch 14y ago
            Where is the option to auto-ban certain domains? I've never seen it.
            • skeletonjelly 14y ago
              Doesn't exist. Spam filter learns.
      • absconditus 14y ago
        Leaves more room for cat videos?
      • anoncow 14y ago
        I suspect the decision was to maintain the quality of posts.
• jxi 14y ago
  Is reddit censoring posts or something? I don't understand why I don't see a single post about Aaron on my front page.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    There are a few posts. Reddit had a broader topic and voting base that HN though.
• bguthrie 14y ago
  We're actively working to replace the Tumblr site with something a bit more fitting.