So for all of you who have Simblr’s…. I have just gone through every single one of my 4,2900+ posts since 2013. Overall, I would say about 35 of my posts and reblogs had flags on them…. ultimately making up less than 1% of my content being flagged despite not having any “Adult Content”…. aside from some Sims were not wearing clothing in about half of those posts.
There doesn’t seem to be a concrete rhyme-or-reason to the automated flagging, but here’s what I’ve noticed got flagged the most.***
Images, GIFs, Videos from any of the Sims games that included the following tended to get flagged more often:
Sims on fire, or near a fire
Stretched-Sims (particularly pets, kids, toddlers, babies, and sometimes shirtless / unclothed Sims)
The Sims 2 Bigfoot got flagged a lot for some reason
Sims that were pixeled out
Glitches where clothes were skin-colored, or sometimes Sims with no clothing
Kissing Sims
Sims lying down on the floor
Sim Bots sometimes get flagged
Ghost Sims, or Sims being electrocuted
Sims with well-defined derrières or chests
Sims in their underwear
Burnt Sims or Sims who have died of hunger
Floating heads (the body/outfit is missing), armless, legless Sims
***Do note that while I found a lot of posts with these subjects flagged, a lot of times posts that had these didn’t get flagged. And some random things got flagged too, like a Sim with a beard and a cowboy hat got flagged for some reason, and a Sim who was turned into a frog got flagged too.
I have appealed all my posts that I believe have wrongly been flagged, and removed those that I figured maybe Tumblr didn’t like. Hopefully I’ll get a response tomorrow or in the upcoming days about the appeal.
My advice for all of you is, check your posts, and appeal if you believe your stuff was incorrectly flagged! This is a chance for the staff to fine tune their algorithm by giving them real examples of how the current system needs refined.
You can check to see which posts of yours or reblogs you’ve made are flagged by clicking the little buddy icon below which is on the upper right side of your screen:
From there, click “Posts” and then scroll through to see what’s been flagged. If it’s a post you directly uploaded to your blog, you have the choice to “Review” (which means to appeal) and if you select that option, you have the choice to have someone review the post and get e-mailed on the updates!
Example:
A photo of my Sim literally just scratching her armpit was flagged as “Adult Content”.
Mistakes happen. Let the staff know about these things, because i’m sure they’re going to need all the good PR they can get now haha.
Lilysimsgames 