Finding & Appealing Flags
So... I keep seeing posts with elaborate work-arounds for how to find your flagged posts and ask for appeals, but it doesn’t need to be that hard.
Step One: Find a flagged post. Now that flagged posts are hidden entirely, they’re actually even easier to spot than they were before. They look like this:
Step Two: Open the Post in a New Tab. Just click on the date there, right under the “Learn More” link. That’s all you gotta do. You don’t even HAVE to open it in a new tab; that just makes it easier not to lose your place if you’re looking through a tag for flagged posts.
Step Three: Get the Post Number. It’s the big ol’ number in the middle of the web address. See?
Step Four: View the Post on your dashboard’s sidebar. Wait, how do you do that? Easy. Visit the link below, substituting YOUR blog name for mine and YOUR post number for mine:
Your flagged post will pop up on the sidebar of your dashboard, where you can see the post, determine if it’s flagged erroneously or not, and...
Step Five: Ask for an appeal. Just push the button on the flag and request an appeal.
If you want to edit the post in any way, the address is similar to the above - but everything between Tumblr’s base address and the post number is simply replaced with “edit” so it would look like this:
...and that’s all there is to it!
Now, you’re likely to run into a lot of posts that aren’t YOUR posts. Sometimes, they’ll have an “APPEAL” button on them - and you can appeal them just as you do your own posts, and they’ll be restored just the same as if you were the OP!
But sometimes... there IS no appeal button. In those cases, do the OP a solid and drop them a message to let them know about it and tell them how they can access the post on their own sidebar to ask for an appeal. You can get the link for them by clicking on their name either at the top of the post (if you reblogged it directly from them) or before their caption/text in the body of the post (if they added a caption/text).
I still don’t know how to delete flagged reblogs from inactive/deactivated accounts (since they’ll obviously never ask for an appeal), so if anyone knows how to do that, please let me know! Currently, I am simply erasing all tags from the post and tagging them “flagged” so they won’t show up in my blog’s navigational tags, but can be easily found to be deleted/edited later.
