Just… tumblr
So.... Tumblr
Ahhh yes
The magical realm of what the actual heck is happening
Everything is getting flagged, even harmless stuff
A bunch of people are going to log off before December 17
Yeah, I am too. The new policy is pretty stupid imo, and they're not even doing it right
Yeah, I agree.
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Wait what's the new policy??
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Oof. Yeah… even my stuff is getting flagged…
Wait what's the new policy??
No adult content at all. Except their using bots to detect NSFW content, so a lot of SFW posts are getting flagged as well. A lot of people are also getting mad because it's going to hurt content creators who have built their platform around NSFW art.
It's basically just a really flawed system. The problem is the porn bots, and that's what they should be cracking down on instead of just purging the site of all adult content.
Yeah. And honestly I'm mad too because tumblr was the only reliable website I used for my NSFW stuff.
Also there's no reason to get rid of ALL of the NSFW content on tumblr. Like, this isn't facebook, it's full of hormone crazed teenagers and young adults, what else would they expect? If they really wanted to build a safe, family friendly community they should've enforced that policy a very long time ago.
And yeah, porn bots are a problem, but there are steps that can be taken to keep people safe from it, like enabling safe mode, blocking certain tags, and only allowing certain people to message you or make it so that they have to request to message you.
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Oof that's pretty stupid.
Why not just find a way to eliminate porn bots WITHOUT getting rid of anything else.
Very well said, Starfast and @SaltyLasagna.
Yeah. And honestly I'm mad too because tumblr was the only reliable website I used for my NSFW stuff.
Also there's no reason to get rid of ALL of the NSFW content on tumblr. Like, this isn't facebook, it's full of hormone crazed teenagers and young adults, what else would they expect? If they really wanted to build a safe, family friendly community they should've enforced that policy a very long time ago.
And yeah, porn bots are a problem, but there are steps that can be taken to keep people safe from it, like enabling safe mode, blocking certain tags, and only allowing certain people to message you or make it so that they have to request to message you.
YES, I don’t understand the staff half of the time and wish I could report them and they’d ban themselves
I'm a little bit under the impression that the staff doesn't really know what they're doing half the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they did ban themselves. Apparently their announcement about the NSFW content purged got flagged. Not sure if that's actually true, but it's pretty believable imo.
I think this is really stupid
I was planning on getting a blog soon but I'm putting that off because of this thing
It’s deleted from the App Store soooo
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Most people are moving to Twitter. This ban is going to harm and marginalise LGBT+ people even more.
This whole thing is ridiculous and stupid
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Well… they're trying to do stuff about CP, but not Neo Nazis unfortunately…
I don't think it targets art, just pornographic images and the like (which is fine by me. I'm sick of having porn blogs follow me and like some of my stuff. It's ridiculous.)
They're using bots to do their work, so all even vaguely NSFW art and classical art with nude women is being tagged… and not to mention all of the perfectly innocent things… They didn't ask me for my opinion, but what they should have done was used bots to filter it out for the staff, so only they could see, and have the staff- all real people- review everything that the bots saw, without flagging our posts and causing mass panic.
But uh… Tumblr was listed at 17+ on the app store, right? It's not a site meant for kids, not to say more mature kids can't be on it. It's just not a family-friendly site to begin with.
The original post was in fact flagged by their own bots, including a pretty hilarious post about an AI being used by the British Police mistaking pictures of deserts for nudes. Get it?
Send dunes.
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Also, what do they even count NSFW as? Porn? Self-insert smut? Will they start flagging posts for using swears? Is there any sort of guideline in place for what counts as NSFW/SFW?
Apparently not, according to the Twitter posts. There was also something about Pornhub of all things being willing to have artists and such be able to post their images if they want, so there may or may not be a mass exodus to one of the largest adult sites on the net? Imagine THAT a few years down the line!
Woah
…Why am I not even surprised
NSFW is basically just anything that you would not want your boss to catch you looking at while at work. When you take that into consideration, NSFW should be any kind of porn, nudity/genitalia, extreme gore, and (debatably) drugs and profanity. That's pretty much the guideline on most websites (though I might be missing a few things).
Tumblr though just seems to be flagging anything without any rhyme or reason. As mentioned previously, a lot of the stuff they're marking as explicit content is perfectly harmless. So no, there doesn't seem to be a guideline. Or at least if there is, they're doing a really poor job of enforcing it.
edit: I got like super ninja'd and somehow didn't realize there was a second page to this thread lmao