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@Starfast group

Wait what's the new policy??

No adult content at all. Except their using bots to detect NSFW content, so a lot of SFW posts are getting flagged as well. A lot of people are also getting mad because it's going to hurt content creators who have built their platform around NSFW art.

It's basically just a really flawed system. The problem is the porn bots, and that's what they should be cracking down on instead of just purging the site of all adult content.

@SaltyLasagna

Yeah. And honestly I'm mad too because tumblr was the only reliable website I used for my NSFW stuff.
Also there's no reason to get rid of ALL of the NSFW content on tumblr. Like, this isn't facebook, it's full of hormone crazed teenagers and young adults, what else would they expect? If they really wanted to build a safe, family friendly community they should've enforced that policy a very long time ago.
And yeah, porn bots are a problem, but there are steps that can be taken to keep people safe from it, like enabling safe mode, blocking certain tags, and only allowing certain people to message you or make it so that they have to request to message you.

@Hey_Its_Snowy_And_Im_Generally_Confused

Yeah. And honestly I'm mad too because tumblr was the only reliable website I used for my NSFW stuff.
Also there's no reason to get rid of ALL of the NSFW content on tumblr. Like, this isn't facebook, it's full of hormone crazed teenagers and young adults, what else would they expect? If they really wanted to build a safe, family friendly community they should've enforced that policy a very long time ago.
And yeah, porn bots are a problem, but there are steps that can be taken to keep people safe from it, like enabling safe mode, blocking certain tags, and only allowing certain people to message you or make it so that they have to request to message you.

YES, I don’t understand the staff half of the time and wish I could report them and they’d ban themselves

@Starfast group

I'm a little bit under the impression that the staff doesn't really know what they're doing half the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they did ban themselves. Apparently their announcement about the NSFW content purged got flagged. Not sure if that's actually true, but it's pretty believable imo.

@yeetus

I think this is really stupid
I was planning on getting a blog soon but I'm putting that off because of this thing

@Mercury Beta Tester

It’s deleted from the App Store soooo

That's because Tumblr isn't doing enough to combat CP (child porn), Apple said.
Not to mention the porn bots (like @Starfast said) and neo nazis.

@Becfromthedead group

Well… they're trying to do stuff about CP, but not Neo Nazis unfortunately…
I don't think it targets art, just pornographic images and the like (which is fine by me. I'm sick of having porn blogs follow me and like some of my stuff. It's ridiculous.)
They're using bots to do their work, so all even vaguely NSFW art and classical art with nude women is being tagged… and not to mention all of the perfectly innocent things… They didn't ask me for my opinion, but what they should have done was used bots to filter it out for the staff, so only they could see, and have the staff- all real people- review everything that the bots saw, without flagging our posts and causing mass panic.
But uh… Tumblr was listed at 17+ on the app store, right? It's not a site meant for kids, not to say more mature kids can't be on it. It's just not a family-friendly site to begin with.

@Yamatsu

The original post was in fact flagged by their own bots, including a pretty hilarious post about an AI being used by the British Police mistaking pictures of deserts for nudes. Get it?

Send dunes.

@Starfast group

^Haha yeah I saw the send dunes thing.

Also, it looks like they're muting certain posts. There's a bunch of stuff that I've reblogged that's not showing up on my blog :( My blog is generally SFW. At the worst, it's like PG-13. So yeah, that sucks.

@HighPockets group

Also, what do they even count NSFW as? Porn? Self-insert smut? Will they start flagging posts for using swears? Is there any sort of guideline in place for what counts as NSFW/SFW?