General Discussion

It's just so ridiculous... Tumblr is notorious for being incredibly hands-off in managing the website as a whole, judging by all the technical and community BS I've seen increasing over the years. I really don't get their thought-process here... algorithms aren't a silver bullet for the porn problem, or any problem requiring critical thinking and reasoning for that matter.

Nowadays, I'm much more active on Twitter than Tumblr, but I have no choice but to delay things on my blog until things improve (provided that they do). Twitter isn't exactly the best for writing...

i’ve always been tolerant of sites’ bad updates or whatever bad thing is happening on there, like with deviantart and tumblr. i’m just not the type of person to latch onto a negative for too long if it doesn’t affect me that horribly you know
but this? i dunno. it’s just sad. i feel so sorry for all the artists there who make a living out of their art and now that very art is going to get flagged and deleted. and not just with nsfw art, but anything else as others mentioned before me. sure, maybe the bots will be better, but tumblr staff already showed how.... incompetent they can be. until safe mode was available, there was always a problem with innocent (like FR posts) things getting marked as sensitive content and not much could be done about that

i don’t think i’m going to leave tumblr unless the people i actively follow all leave and/or i get attached to other sides. i’ve been thinking of joining and becoming active on more social media platforms, so this is a “nice” chance i guess? :>

i’m thinking of weasyl, twitter and instagram. pillowfort sounds pretty promising, but i might not be able to pay for that for a while. we will see!

[quote name="DreamSlayer" date="2018-12-03 13:55:25" ] Tbh I think people are just overreacting with this whole thing If your content is flagged when it shouldn't have been, you can get it appealed and brought back which many people have done already Unless people are actually posting explicit content on their FR blogs, they are fine [/quote] I've lived it. It will exist for some time sure in wild death throes, but it's dead. Not counting the transparency they should have had since the beginning? The algorithm has several things wrong with it. First, it went after people using correct tags and flagging to warn for content, leaving untagged or mistagged posts alone to run rampant. Hence certain bots in tags like manga. Secondly, it's notoriously unreliable. I've seen Garfield, a spoon, and someone's photo of a tree be flagged, so. It has been since its inception. They don't care. It's a band aid on a bleed out to say they tried. Thirdly, they don't care about appeals for safe content. Especially if it's queer. I've experienced that personally. Fourthly, it's not and never has been about making it a more accessible platform. It never is. It's because they got banned from the iOS store. The reason behind all this mess has been there for years, and they didn't care. I've reported bad content, though not quite that bad, and still it has remained. The only reason they're doing anything about it now is money. In any case, like it or not, that's what carries fandoms, and the mismanagement of the whole situation has driven many people off. Including me. This is the death bell. The ship is sunk, the platform's gone. I for one am not going to let my content be used for advertising dollars for a pro-censorship platform, regardless of my personal beliefs. Not when it's just an excuse and they could have well handled the situation a long time ago if they actually cared about the user base as they so claim. Not to mention even general audience rated queer content gets disproportionately flagged (re: LJ, FFnet, Youtube, tumblr itself not too long ago) The platform is gone and good riddance. I'll be heading to pillowfort once it's up. At least the paywall will keep most of a certain demographic away for a time.

Thanks tumblr staff! I hate it!

I mean, great, they're combating the bloody annoying unmarked/unflagged nudity and NSFW content that pops up where it shouldn't be. And getting rid of those disgusting bots is excellent because I don't want them on tumblr. But my god, if the algorithm is picking up on stuff that isn't even NSFW, then something's wrong.

Fix the damn algorithm. I've already seen a plethora of non NSFW stuff being flagged as explicit.

If they don't fix it, then I'll be going to Twitter.

@Rhea
True that. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest, tbh.

Also 100% agreed with Pillowfort and they said they will be adding more customization options. Plus the fan made badges thing is really cute. x3

i dont use tumblr but yeowch what a mess apparently the activity on it significantly lowered after they announced theyll be removing all that stuff. rest in heck tumbleweed pillowfort sounds interesting either way.. [quote name="Taluwen" date="2018-12-03 19:02:58" ] [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/d66b0a70ecc6eeb572fd9878662b5004/tumblr_pj6ywrJDjw1y0we79o1_540.png[/img] [/quote] the situation is so bad it had to be flagged

@PixelSpiral
So terrible. Too much for the chitlins!

[quote name="DreamSlayer" date="2018-12-03 13:55:25" ] Tbh I think people are just overreacting with this whole thing If your content is flagged when it shouldn't have been, you can get it appealed and brought back which many people have done already Unless people are actually posting explicit content on their FR blogs, they are fine [/quote] Fun fact, I appealed a "marked sensitive" post for a pixel adopt and the appeal was denied. I have literally never ever posted anything remotely NSFW on my FR blog. Whatever they're doing is just a disaster at the moment.

I shouldn't have to constantly beg a site for permission to use it. That's what they're making us do by flagging innocuous posts and forcing us to appeal.