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RE: “A better, more positive Tumblr”
I’d like to add that those “automated tools” are ridiculously inaccurate. They flag pics that aren’t questionable on a regular basis.
And one more thing: some Tumblrs have been around for years - mine is 10 years old. Are those automated tools going to scour years’ worth of content & retroactively censor/delete those posts? At least 30% of all photography-based Tumblrs (fashion, experimental,etc.) will be nothing but those cutesy Tumblr ‘violation of terms of service’ images.
How many strikes will current users have against them once this policy goes into effect? Are users getting a grace period to voluntarily remove what Tumblr flags as inappropriate?
If a post is flagged as NSFW & it’s clearly not (when viewed by humans vs. censorship software) are we getting an opportunity to request a human to look at the image & make the decision?
I’ve seen those little, nondescript nsfw icons pop up in my archives from time to time… There were times when it was indeed correct, but there are also times when it says an image is nsfw & that image is simply a man or woman with skin showing, clothing draped loosely, or without clothing but posed to ensure no frontal nudity is visible.
I get it - Tumblr has become synonymous with porn these days. The amount of sexual content on this platform is actually pretty astounding, so I guess they want to clean up their image. Fine, but why not tighten up the requirement to make those blogs clearly state their NSFW/adult content?
It’s your platform Tumblr. It’s always been ad-free (except for that period not too long ago when 'sponsored’ posts kept showing up in my feed… like a year ago??) Whatever the case, I originally fell in love with Tumblr’s ease of use. I started my blog in 2008, two years before Instagram was invented.>I also fell in love with the freedom to post images that I found beautiful/inspiring. A sizable portion of Tumblr’s users stuck with the platform because of that freedom.
Times change, as does the ownership of this place. Many folks knew this day was coming, but people like me held out hope that you wouldn’t actually resort to removing content rather than enforcing a required NSFW warning on blogs with nudity/sex/whatever. You are removing the viewer’s right to choose what is “better & more positive.”
This is the most I’ve ever written in my 10 years here. Apologies to my followers who like the images & my lack of conversation.
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