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gayreinhardt:

shock:

gayreinhardt:

how do i get a sfw sasuke big enough to oblitherate my entire dashboard

hello you horny motherfuckers

fano-tastic:

fano-tastic:

Flagged upon posting, you cruel bastard.

jaspurr:

bagadew:

jaspurr:

jaspurr:

jaspurr:

you know if tumblr was a competent website, I wouldn’t mind their new “no nsfw allowed” policy. it’s a little irritating that they couch it in “we want to make sure everyone feels comfortable and welcome” when filtering existed for awhile, but ok. it’s their website.

except there’s a huge precedent of censoring queer content every time a social media website wants to censor nsfw content. youtube got in trouble for that years ago. it was a huge problem with tumblr’s safe mode.

speaking of tumblr safe mode, remember that a whole bunch of sfw posts were marked as nsfw or “sensitive” by tumblr algorithms? how about during the latest purge when a bunch of innocent blogs were deleted because of whatever algorithm they use? how about when tags like “chronic pain” were censored? how about the fact that people abuse the hell out of the report system to delete blogs that they don’t like off of tumblr, because tumblr doesn’t really verify reports and will delete any blog that gets enough of them?

I could keep going but my point is: tumblr is extremely incompetent when it comes to how it handles nsfw content. everyone who has been on here for more than a week would know this.

the announcement is so vaguely worded too. what are the “some exceptions” to their policy banning adult content and nudity? how can you talk about banning that but also talk about the importance of sex positivity, art, and self expression? is sex education allowed? can people talk about their sexuality? can survivors of sexual assault and rape talk about their experience? what if someone thinks that their discussion is too graphic and must be pornography? what if someone’s tasteful artistic nudes is someone else’s pornography?

maybe to y’all it should be “common sense”, but when I see that, all I can think about is how unless tumblr clearly defines their rules and spells them out for everyone, it’s open to abuse. hell, people already abuse the policies they have in place.

and when you combine that with a history of tumblr deleting blogs that don’t violate the tos, censoring tags that aren’t nsfw, marking innocent posts nsfw, and just… everything about tumblr’s shitty history of dealing with actual problems like porn bots, nsfw content popping up in recommended posts and the gif search, recently having nsfw ads….

if you don’t think you have to worry about this, you really should. even if you don’t post adult content at all, or you think that what you do post is one of the exceptions to tumblr’s new policy. sure this is gonna hit some blogs harder than others, but it’s gonna have an impact on everyone. well, except maybe the blogs that are actually causing harm. for some reason those blogs always seem to thrive no matter what tumblr does.

I have read the actual update now and it did answer one of my questions (what the exceptions are) and from what I understand:

what is not allowed: photos, videos and gifs of genitalia and “female presenting nipples”, any visual depiction of sex (including art)

what is allowed: pictures of nipples in the case of breastfeeding, political protest, birth photos, and post mastectomy photos, and artistic nudity.

in other words: no sex allowed at all, real life “female presenting” breasts are only ok in medical or political contexts. you can draw nudity but you can’t draw sex, written erotica is untouched as far as I can tell.

this has already caused confusion over art being allowed or not

I am personally raising an eyebrow at “female presenting nipples” bit, especially when they also clarify that post mastectomy photos were allowed…. so are afab trans and nb nipples not allowed unless they have a mastectomy even tho they aren’t “presenting” as female? lmao. are trans women’s nipples only allowed until they get gender confirmation surgery? like I know damn well that they mean “afab tiddies aren’t allowed” but trying to make it more trans inclusive ironically feels like a slap in the face.

and I still wonder how the hell they are gonna enforce this policy change when they are already failing with the policies they have in place that are less work on their filters and moderators.

I need to know the specific steps they are taking to protect the queer community on tumblr. I need to know what steps they are taking so they aren’t purging innocent blogs and tags. I need to know what improvements they have made to their filters so innocent posts are not automatically flagged as sensitive.

the problem is I don’t think they have made any steps that would prevent this system from turning into a chaotic cluster fuck that disproportionately targets the queer community instead of the porn bots and cp, because that’s always what happens. and honestly this seems like the lazy “quick fix” to their problems instead of trying to make their existing system work.

in the couple of hours since I posted this, tumblr has gone nuts flagging posts as explicit, none of them are porn, some of them don’t even involve human beings like

-landscape photos

-dinosaurs

-a picture of a kitten

-a screenshot of verizon’s stock plummeting

-sfw short stories (when even under the new policies, they mention that written erotica is allowed)

it took less than 24 hours for this to go to fuck

What’s a real kick in the teeth about all of this is the people who are being left alone by this stuff. I’ve spent most of the past year on IVs and obviously unable to do a lot of the stuff I really wanted to. So in March I decided that I would work a little more thoroughly on helping to make this site a bit of a safer place.

So I sat down and read through the community guidelines very carefully, then on the very rare occasions an arsehole managed to find their way onto my dash I go onto their blog, read it for a while and if I come across anything nasty (I’m talking ‘x people will go to hell and burn for all eternity’ or ‘we shoul round up x people and kill them’) I look a little deeper and report all the horrible posts I find. If the blog’s really disturbing or harassing other users I add it to a list I’ve got saved on a document and check back on it now and then to report all the really worrying things they’ve got up to.

Several of the people on my list are, to put it bluntly, deeply unsettling and dangerous individuals who’s idea of a party game is ‘where would you nuke if you only had three bombs’. And nothing was done about them. At one point I even managed to dig tumblrs support email (not the dead one) out of its ass because there was one particular blog that I’d been reporting for five months and every time I looked the person behind the account seemed to be getting more and more unstable and aggressive towards everyone that wasn’t him. I still haven’t had anything beyond a confirmation email.

So when the new updates rolled around I was quite happy, especially because for the first time these pillocks seemed genuinely worried about something. And then in hit and people’s blogs kept getting randomly deleted. And do you know how many of those arseholes blogs vanished?

None.

And the worst thing is, it’s not just the guy I’m genuinely considering reporting to the police who’s got worse since the update. It’s all of them. Because they all got away unscathed and think that they’re untouchable now.

this is an excellent point. the amount of bullying and abuse on this website is disturbing, and tumblr does nothing about it.

that’s because the report system relies on quantity of reports and doesn’t even look at what’s being reported. for every blog they delete, there are several more that are left alone because not enough people are reporting them. not only does this do a poor job of weeding out truly dangerous people, this empowers them to mass report and delete blogs that they target, regardless of whether or not those blogs did anything wrong. this creates an environment that not only makes bullies feel untouchable, it gives them tools to harm others, all while punishing people who most likely have done nothing wrong.

smut-101:

Fiddling with WordPress to see what we can import.. if not, Discord might be a thing.. we’ll keep you posted ❤

eori-namo:

Hello.

I know Tumblr has problems. so let you know my acc in other site.

This is my twitter and instagram.

I think you see my works easily here.

I hope Tumblr fix the problems as soon as possible.

Thank you for reading!

jujuoh:

zombie-twink:

Results so far

ok so our titty choices are now: cubism, jpeg, manga, and Picasso’s Blue Period

loldyinginside:

janeykara:

I know it’s tempting to leave and migrate to Twitter or Deviantart or whatever place to put your content due to the new policies, but DON’T. Let me explain why:

when your space is invaded, do you leave and let them take it? or do you stay because it’s YOUR space.

Leaving Tumblr won’t solve anything. As nonchalant as the staff is, if we leave, the new policy will stay in tact and NOTHING will be fixed.

We have to stay right here and tell the staff to go fuck themselves (Not literally, don’t harass the staff with threats or something) and do whatever we can to let them know their rules ain’t shit. Fix it.

it could take awhile. Weeks, a month, but we HAVE to kill this new policy.

Make petitions, videos, posts, but DO NOT LEAVE TUMBLR until they learn how to fix their shit.

@staff could you actually fix your shit instead of flagging and deleting every depiction of humans regardless of context. I have a blog where pictures of people who are hugging, driving, or just modeling clothes have been flagged and I assume are set to be taken down. I never comment on anything but this is lazy bullshit.