Tag: Tumblr

raesputin:

cybercrimer:

girlfriendluvr:

good things about the nsfw ban

• good idea to ban nsfw content on a 13+ website. like as a concept, it is a good policy!!
• no more cp
• children will not get exposed to nsfw shit on here anymore (literally you could not search the tag of any female character, including adult ones, without finding porn of her. after this ban was announced, a 15 year old i know’s first reaction was “finally i can search any tag ever”)
• no more dudes with blogs that are just gifs of stolen footage from sex workers
• no more nerds with hentai blogs. theyre not inherently bad but i personally hate them

bad things about the nsfw ban

• will hurt sex workers who use this site to advertise
• bad implementation: things getting incorrectly flagged as nsfw. several sfw lgbt tags and a few fandom tags (like, for children’s tv shows) were made unsearchable, and some innocent people’s blogs were deleted. this is more a problem with the implementation, than the policy itself.
• not necessarily a bad thing about the nsfw ban, but a bad thing related to it: tumblr ONLY did this bc they got taken out of the app store. they don’t actually give a shit

things that are unrelated to the nsfw ban but important to note

• tumblr still hasn’t banned the terfs or the nazis, and they need to.
• tumblr STILL promotes pedophilic content. in their “year in review 2018″ thing, many of the “top ships” listed were pedophilic (like sheith) or incestuous (like thorki). this is disgusting.

charteredlibertine:

moodybidoof:

I think what pisses me off most is how the whole Staff update is presented like, “Oh we love you so much! We want to keep our darling users safe and removing all the porn will allow for freer speech. uwu” when really this is obviously just the laziest, cheapest solution to a problem that they ignored for years and years until it got them removed from the iOS app store and then suddenly it mattered

Yeah. Exactly. As I pointed out in the tags on my last reblog – tumblr’s problem isn’t actually porn, it’s fake accounts and bots.

Do you have any idea how many bots follow me that aren’t porn accounts but scam marketing accounts with taglines like “learn the secret to selling real estate!!” Yet I don’t see tumblr instituting a ban on real estate content.

Tbh I wish I could leave tumblr, because there are so many aspects about this site’s infrastructure and management and culture that I can’t stand, but there’s no other platform that lets me do the few specific things I do on here. And yeah, I can curate my experience well enough that it’s mostly fine for me personally, but shit like this still gets under my skin.

On the other hand, I doubt it’s even possible for tumblr to actually fix the bot problem, given how badly coded the site is and how limited their ability must be to make big changes on the backend. They’d probably have to trash the site and start over from scratch.