Tumblr really out here, just willingly murdering itself.
@staff, complete censorship is not the answer. It is NOT the answer.
This is not going to help your platform, it is only going to hurt it. You are making a mistake. You are dealing a significant blow to the already shaky ground you’re standing on. You are kicking your user base in the teeth.
Tumblr was never made specifically for minors: why do this now? There are so many more steps you could take to get a handle on the porn bots and child pornography – why is THIS the “solution” (because it is NOT one) you came up with? Becoming a site-wide purity police should NOT be the fix any professional came to. I do not buy that you don’t foresee the ramifications of this.
I can deal with the rampant technical errors: I can deal with the app crashing 50 times a day, with posts not actually posting for minutes on end instead of instantly, like they’re supposed to, with your in-blog search feature working only at certain hours, when the winds and the tides are just right, and the pagen gods deem it time.
What I cannot deal with? Censorship. Especially censorship due to what I can only guess is pure laziness, lack of interest/effort, or incompetence on the part of those tasked with addressing the problem of inappropriate content on this site. You can’t bother to put filters in place for the specific troubling content, so you punish your entire user base instead?
Adult content is not automatically inappropriate content. Banning all adult content is NOT an answer.
I come to Tumblr for fandom. Fandom will DIE on Tumblr under these new rules. So many factions of online community will wither on your site under these changs. You are doing nothing but ensuring an exodus of loyal, long-time users from your platform. That’s a mistake you should really reconsider.
Not to mention that there seems to be a MAJOR problem with whatever algorithm you’ve got going, as content that 100% does not fall under your ridiculous new guidelines is already being flagged.
I understand being yanked from the app store must have been jarring and worrisome, but THIS is not the answer to your problem. This is creating a much bigger one.
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