@staff, I don’t know how, but this needs to be fixed desperately. I liked/hearted this post about millennials using libraries, and these were posts you suggested based on my like.
Note the swastika.
You suggested “OTHER EXCELLENT POSTS” that included an image of a swastika. You’re saying it’s excellent.
I’ve seen posts going around about how your site isn’t doing anything to dissuade white supremacists, but I don’t have a lot of notoriety and am picky about who I follow, so it’s not something I’d experienced personally.
But those people, let run free, have made it so your algorithm literally suggested I check out a swastika post. I’m blatantly and clearly against everything that symbol stands for, as should you.
You need to f i x t h i s!!
real quick: i clicked that post and it’s about how the hindu symbol and nazi symbol are different and how the hindu symbol should be respected, written by a hindu person
so, that might be why it was suggested for you
Good to know. Unfortunate they didn’t decide to have the Hindi symbol first, but who am I to say? Haha. I have no idea either how the algorithm works. A mutual of mine, @inthroughthesunroof, said they’ve run into similar themselves. I wonder if it’s the same post.
I really didn’t want to click on it myself and give it more traffic at the time
the hindu symbol wasn’t uploaded first in the photo roll, so it picks the first image available in the post
it was suggested to me, too, when i liked the post and i’ve actively blocked and outed nazi blogs, so i clicked it and it turned out to be a plea not to disrespect the original symbol
presumably, the author decided the nazi version would be more eyecatching to people and used that, but i don’t think folks format their posts so tumblr will suggest them, so it was just an oversight on behalf of the OP
Do you only Tumblr on a desktop/laptop or have you found a way to blacklist on mobile? I’m mostly on mobile these days but that would be amazing
Thoughtfulfangirling 