Same, I used to take prompts on my blog to draw, but it's been a long time since I've has my ask box open. It would inevitably eventually turn into harassment, or people trying to use my blog as a platform to harass other people. I haven't been active on Tumblr for over a year now, to be fair, so maybe the worst of it died down? Going by the comments here, probably not.
Seeing a wall of hate in the character or ship tag every time I checked was one of the reasons I left too. It wouldn't bother me so much if the people spamming the tag were just expressing their opinion about a character, but more often that not it would get used as a jumping off point to justify really aggressive bullying, or tying to convince the rest of the fandom that you were abusive if you liked or made fluff fic of the character they personally didn't like. I don't actually mind someone sincerely talking their dislike for a character, even if it's a little overboard! It's just that it never stopped at that.
Re: OT Thread (Other fandom salt)
Same, I used to take prompts on my blog to draw, but it's been a long time since I've has my ask box open. It would inevitably eventually turn into harassment, or people trying to use my blog as a platform to harass other people. I haven't been active on Tumblr for over a year now, to be fair, so maybe the worst of it died down? Going by the comments here, probably not.
Seeing a wall of hate in the character or ship tag every time I checked was one of the reasons I left too. It wouldn't bother me so much if the people spamming the tag were just expressing their opinion about a character, but more often that not it would get used as a jumping off point to justify really aggressive bullying, or tying to convince the rest of the fandom that you were abusive if you liked or made fluff fic of the character they personally didn't like. I don't actually mind someone sincerely talking their dislike for a character, even if it's a little overboard! It's just that it never stopped at that.