Artist Junkpuyo's tumblr links

Please excuse if this forum post looks amateurish, I'm new to Danbooru forums, but I wanted to quickly get this out of the way. For the past few minutes, I've been browsing the artist known as Junkpuyo's various works. I came across one picture, https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2582207 this one, that contained a tumblr link. When I clicked on it, instead of leading to a direct source of the image, it automatically redirected to some sort of, porn dating site, likely spam or adware or whatever.

After that, I tried checking their Artist page and clicked the direct link to their tumblr, and it too lead to the same porn dating site. I checked a few more images that also had tumblr links, and I got the same result. Clearly something has happened to Junkpuyo's tumblr, and has resulted in all images that link to their tumblr becoming dead links. I presume anyway. I'm not an expert of Danbooru, so I don't exactly know what the procedure is to handle something like this, so I decided to post it the forums in the hopes someone with more experience, and also a mod, can handle this. Again, please excuse the amateurish post.

To whoever it concerns, thank you for your time, and I hope this issue is resolved quickly.

This is an issue with Tumblr being hot garbage.

Deleted or deactivated tumblr blogs redirecting to porn/dating sites is not a new issue, as explained here

Tumblr recently decided to restrict any r18 content and have gone through great lengths to delete posts and blogs that are saucy in anyway.

As a result, Tumblr is mostly a wasteland of dead pages that sometimes redirect users to adult sites with nasty adware/viruses.

If you want to follow an artist, try their other pages instead of Tumblr. Most have left Tumblr and uploaded their works to places like twitter, Pixiv and even newgrounds

Should we just nuke all of Junkpuyo's tumblr links? Looks like he deleted his blog and someone else hijacked the name and inserted a redirect script. At this point his tumblr sources hold absolutely no value and is a now a danger to unsuspecting users.

I think the links should stay, for the same reasons we keep other bad ID links (I searched the forums and topic #3532 has some discussion about this). I'm kind of hesitant to suggest this, since I don't have the ability to garden it, but maybe there should be a new metatag for malicious source links. Besides cases like this one, it could also apply if an artist posted on a dangerous site or had a blog notorious for serving malicious ads. Possibly Danbooru could give a warning if someone clicked the link when it had that tag.

Would it be possible to make bad_tumblr_id sources into non-clickable links similar to how it is handled on artist pages?

I understand the policy here for proper sourcing, but keeping these bad tumblr ids is leaving unsuspecting users exposed to dangerous links. Deactivating or removing those links is a good idea and a responsible policy to those who visit Danbooru as well as members.

I've reported this redirect to tumblr and requested they block reuse of account names due to this problem. This is new to me, so I hope at least they close the account.

I don't currently see any issue. It now redirects to the "There's nothing here" page.

As far as deactivating the links, I'm not entirely a fan of that. That forces users that want to grab/open the link anyways to have to go to the edit form to get it.

Perhaps instead of deactivating the links with bad id, we could instead just block the default action with the left click, i.e. opening the link, but which would still allow users to right-click and open/copy the link if they still want to.

BrokenEagle98 said:

I don't currently see any issue. It now redirects to the "There's nothing here" page.

As far as deactivating the links, I'm not entirely a fan of that. That forces users that want to grab/open the link anyways to have to go to the edit form to get it.

Perhaps instead of deactivating the links with bad id, we could instead just block the default action with the left click, i.e. opening the link, but which would still allow users to right-click and open/copy the link if they still want to.

6 hours ago I sent a note to Tumblr support with the link it was redirecting to. They took care of it. Maybe others alerted them too, but it got results.

So that is what I will do on my end (and ask that others do the same) while Danbooru's admins work on a strategy.