BlackHeart Biohazards

dduane:

gffa:

tookas-have-teeth:

tookas-have-teeth:

SO I decided to experiment with blocking someone from an anon ask they’ve sent to see what happens (thank you to @monjustmon for being my co-scientist on this), and here are the results from our study:

1. When you block an anon, the username does NOT appear in your blocklist
2. If you go to the page of the person you’ve anon blocked, you can still see their page, and it does not look like you have blocked them. In fact, you can still hit the “block” button on their page.
3. Tumblr will not inform the user that they are blocked from sending you anons. Mon was able to keep sending me anons, but I was not receiving them in my inbox
4. Blocking an anon removes the anon from your inbox as well as any previous anons still sitting in there that the user sent you
5. Blocking an anon appears to block the ip address, as mon was unable to send me anons from a side account
6. Because blocking the anon does not block the blog it originated from, there does not seem to be a way to unblock 🙁 sorry mon
7. Blocking an anon sent from your own ip address does nothing. I initially tried making a side account for the purpose of conducting this experiment, but blocking the anon did nothing to prevent the side account from sending another, which I assume is because we share an ip address. So if you have an annoying sibling who keeps sending you anons, sorry, you’re out of luck.

So there you have it folks, the details of what happens when you block an anon xD

Edit: apparently not everyone has timestamps enabled lol so for all of you, this experiment was done on January 6th 2023

and it’s a little spooky to be typing 2023 instead of 2022

Additional finding: the person blocked on anon can still send you regular asks!

LMAO so all the anons I blocked by IP have no idea that I’m never even seeing their messages, AMAZING, I love Tumblr who can’t even tell us someone has fucking blocked you, just that “oops something went wrong, we have no idea why the follow/reblog buttons aren’t working, maybe try again later?” weenie message, now they can’t even let anons know their messages aren’t being delivered.  Are you afraid to make a phone call to a living person, too, Tumblr?  I love you, bestie hellsite, never change.  <3

…FYI.