Welcome to the Tumblr Café! Have you been here before? Today we’re announcing our newes

Welcome to the Tumblr Café! Have you been here before? Today we’re announcing our newest dish: The Reporting Meatballs. 

Now when you see a post containing something that shouldn’t be on Tumblr—like spam, hate speech, or other violations of our Community Guidelines—you just tap the meatballs menu (●●●) in the upper right-hand corner of a post and follow the appropriate reporting flow. Our Trust & Safety team will be notified and zap away anything that doesn’t belong here on our platform.

People who create spambots or abuse any online platform in the interest of non-genuine social gestures are really good at finding new ways to develop and implement their spam. It’s what they do. We are constantly evolving and expanding the ways we find and eliminate the spam in response to that. You can read more about our process over here. Surfacing this reporting flow is just one way we’re continuing our efforts. While you’ve had the ability to report spam for years, it was a bit hidden under the airplane icon. This new button makes it a little easier to report the bad stuff you want off your dashboard.

Bon appétit!