thesnadger:

I saw a post that was like “stop shaming people who don’t change their profile pic because they ‘look like a bot,’ you’re policing how ppl use tumblr <3 <3 <3” and it made me want to bang my head against the wall.

When people tell you to avoid looking like a bot, it’s because if you look like a bot, you will be blocked and reported as a bot.

I don’t are if you lurk, I don’t care if your pic and title are cool or clever or whatever, just change them to something that shows anyone you follow that you’re human.

Otherwise, if I see you in my new followers I’ll assume you’re one of the 30+ bots that followed me today, and I’ll block and report you.

tl;dr: For crying out loud, it’s not “policing people’s experience” to tell them how to avoid having their accounts blocked and suspended.