So, Tumblr just announced it's getting rid of adult content

[Joe Neglia]

In two weeks, they're going 100% SFW.

I don't see this ending well for them.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

[Cyno]

This was a very hard overreaction to the very real problem of porn bots infesting the site with lots of illegal porn, including underage stuff. So instead of dealing explicitly with those things (which they totally should've), they're just blanket banning NSFW stuff entirely. Though nude/risque art (as long as it isn't a sex act, which is kind of nebulous) and written erotica are still ok apparently.

Also still ok, blogs that post nothing but gory images and literal Nazi blogs. Because as Bruce Campbell once said, you can shoot a woman in the breast, but you can't suck it.

[Push R Truth]

My bad joke answer "I didn't know there was SFW content on Tumblr"


Will they still have the ball pit?

[Dub H]

i also hate money

[Rave]

And they once promised not to do anything of the sort. That's not gonna end well.

[Deleted]

"Female-presenting nipples."


That is all.

[Cyno]

I don't think I've seen an internet company make as many consistently bad decisions as Yahoo has.

[Dub H]

there is only one account in Tumblr that I check that doesn't post porn . and it is a ama sstyle and blog

[Fade]

Yo, as someone that went on Tumblr once like 10 years ago, color me surprised when I met up with an ex a few years ago and she said she used Tumblr for porn. I didn’t even know they had porn! So uh...good/bad for them?..

[Tenshigure]

Everone (myself included) pretty much called this after Yahoo acquired them, to be honest. Even if you weren't using Tumblr for just straight-porn, there is a metric ton of art content on there tagged as NSFW that are getting completely wiped out as a result of this change.

Guess we'll see what takes its place, or if a site like Imgur adds redundant features.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

As someone who rarely uses Tumblr and only to post/find stupid/funny SFW stuff, that's incredibly counterproductive.

[Savage Gambino]

I'm just here for the advertiser backlash when the number of people seeing their ads drops exponentially.

By the time Verizon realized they f***ed up, most of their user base will have found somewhere else, and then they'll go the way of MySpace.

[Zombie Mod]

so there is only going to be one tumblr page left "bring back the porn"?

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Dec 3, 2018 15:36:15 GMT -5 Cyno said:

I don't think I've seen an internet company make as many consistently bad decisions as Yahoo has.

AKA "I'm not allowed to delete that Gaia Online-esque social Avatar from 2006 ever, but we'll remove anything remotely offensive from Tumblr".

I'm glad I switched to Outlook.

[asellus]

Already seeing lots of innocent stuff getting flagged. This isn't going well.

[Cyno]

Working as intended.

[nickcave]

Yeah there's already been major backlash against this all over the board, I know it was ostensabily a reaction to Apple removing their app but they could have you know actually implemented a moderating system to deal with the garbage bot instead of putting a blanket ban on anything deemed "porn" which as per usual when these things happen will disproportionately target LGBTQIA+ related content.

[Tenshigure]

Dec 3, 2018 16:35:49 GMT -5 nickcave said:

Yeah there's already been major backlash against this all over the board, I know it was ostensabily a reaction to Apple removing their app but they could have you know actually implemented a moderating system to deal with the garbage bot instead of putting a blanket ban on anything deemed "porn" which as per usual when these things happen will disproportionately target LGBTQIA+ related content.

They didn't even have to do that, they just had to properly code their NSFW content flags so that it forced you to authenticate on the website to allow it. MangaRock does this already with their viewer on the Apple store, and aside from that first 10-15 minutes from the change, it's been working the same way ever since.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

That's most of what I follow.

f*** you, Tumblr.