#'posts/RBs that have a connection to a specific thing but arent that thing themselves'

[roseverdict]

would you be willing to stop publicly answering the scam asks? they're almost definitely automated and won't see your responses, but seeing them on my dash makes me sad - it's bad enough getting em in my own inbox

i completely understand where you're coming from, but i just wouldn't feel right not doing it. like, if me publicly answering scam asks to dunk on them helps other people who maybe are still on the fence about whether or not they're legit, i want to do that. i want to keep people from being lied to. ntm the fact that these dirtbags make minor changes to their URLs so frequently that, if somebody doesn't yet know how these kinds of scams work, they might end up trying to google the blog handle or something and not think to check variations for scamminess.

i'm not articulating this very well probably orz the curse of ten-to-3-AM. point is i'm well aware the scammers don't care, but i'm not answering for the scammers. i'm answering for the people who might have been targeted by the scammers and might need convincing that they're trying to scam them.

but anyway. likely-badly-articulated reasoning aside, i do tag any scam asks i answer with the tag "#scammers" in case you want to block it, though i may switch to "#scam asks" just so that other scammer-related stuff (IE, things to keep an eye out for) doesn't necessarily get lumped in with the actual scammers themselves.

scam doesn't even feel like a word anymore

#rosie answers #re: #scammers #yeah see that? the 're:' tag? yeah it's one of those ideas i had a while back that would get a LOT more useful if tumblr's tagging system #got a lot more comprehensive really really fast #but as it is rn it's only good for the express purpose of isolating #'posts/RBs that have a connection to a specific thing but arent that thing themselves' #so. might make a new tag just for the actual scammers. don't even wanna call 'em ''scam artists'' bc this aint art