Facebook is dispersive as fuck to post sims-related stuff and especially stories. Also, you can’t really post any kind of nudity on there, as even something as innocent as breastfeeding will be flagged as “porn”;
Instagram is about as dispersive as Facebook for sims-related stuff, it kind of hides your post if you dare to include external links in the photo descriptions (hence it can not be used for sims downloads) and is also obsessed with avoiding nudity;
Twitter is basically a big no-no if you want to write a post that is longer than two lines;
Livejournal will ban you if you post anything LGBT related;
If you’re living in Europe, making a WordPress account might get you a 20 million euros fine if you don’t set up a proper privacy policy, thanks to the awesome GDPR laws;
Same goes for pretty much any other blogging platform;
…And now Tumblr is going to censor all “adult blogs”, but at the same time it is flagging pretty much ALL BLOG POSTS as “adult posts” because their filters suck and they can’t be bothered to fix them. And now we have to either delete our completely innocent posts THEY flagged as “NSFW” or wait for their (shitty) support to review a million posts in two weeks to get them back on our blogs.
All while the EU is about to go ahead with Article 13 that is going to censor all sorts of fanart, fanfiction, tribute music, movie reviews and anything that might contain anything that is even remotely related to copyrighted content.
…Please, tell me how all of this is supposed to help our “freedom of expression”, again?
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P.S.: I’m in the process of moving the chapters of The Emergency Coven to Blogger, since so far it seems to be the only blogging platform that comes with an already-made GDPR compliant privacy policy. Only the first four chapters have been uploaded so far. I will try to upload the rest in the next days, and then start thinking of a possible alternative place to upload my files as well. Seriously, Tumblr, this was the last straw.
like okay, cool ban all the porn. whatever. it’s your site, i guess.
BUT the way you chose to implement it is BEYOND RIDICULOUS.
1) you gave us NO WARNING WHATSOVER. you literally just dropped this on us out of nowhere, and expect us to be okay with it?
2) you stated that you’re going to start enforcing this on december 17th, yet posts are already being flagged in mass quantities.
3) you have given us NO WAY to easily review the posts that have been flagged. rather than consolidating them onto a single review page, we are forced to scroll through our thousands upon thousands of posts just to hunt them down.
4) your flagging algorithm is an absolute MESS. it’s flagging completely innocent content and bypassing everything that’s actually reasonably questionable.
MEANWHILE there are amazing non-NSFW content creators panicking because they’re worried all their hard work is going to up and vanish due to their posts being flagged for ABSOLUTELY NO LOGICAL REASON.
I love how everyone’s sims games look so thoroughly unique to their style. Like yes, we all have the same game. But look at these people turning the heck up – you got some who beast without mods, some who beast with just a few, and some that beast with a whole bunch. AND YOU ALL HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL GAMES. Not a single person has an “ugly” game. Watching how each person takes what they are given and makes it work for THEM and their style is beautiful. I LIVE for this diversity man. On top of that, it’s amazing watching smaller simblrs grow into their blog and find their own unique style. It’s like watching your niece or nephew grow up! And if you think “oh my sims aren’t unique enough” it’s because they’re YOUR sims. But to anyone who’s outside looking in, I promise you that your game looks solely and 100% a reflection of you. Be confident in your style, don’t let simblr politics or negativity make you feel like your blog or your style is less than because it isn’t! Your simblr is beautiful. ❤
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
I just discovered a workaround to download content from box users whom have reached their bandwidth limit! Sorry in advance for the clunky setup of this post, I’m on my phone.
What you will need for this to work is a handheld device like android or iOS. When you visit the link of the desired content you want to download, you will be greeted with box’ mobile version of the web page. KEEP IT THAT WAY. I am using a “dead” link from Remi for demonstrating purposes. What you want to do now is to LONG PRESS the download button (the large one on screenshot 1). This will bring up a dialogue with different options (screenshot 2). The download will start as soon as you click on the “save link” option (it might be called something different for other browsers/platforms).
Congrats! You have now downloaded a file which you should not have been able to download on your computer! All that remains is for you to sync these files to your preferred online cloud storage, or to simply plug the handheld device to your computer and sync the files like so.
I hope this helped and that you are able to download whatever you wanted to get your hands on!
Well I know this may sound lame, but honestly just be you.
Post pictures of what you like and your gameplay. It’s really not important to be popular on tumblr. It’s not worth to stress over something like that because it’s just a website.
Eventually you’ll earn followers. We all started at the bottom and in my opinion I really didn’t care. I’m on here because I love posting pictures of my sims and writing my stories. Even if no one followed me, I’d still be posting pictures and stuff because I feel like my blog is a good memory that I can look back on.
I know it’s the internet, which can be a vile place sometimes, but do your best to be nice no matter what. We all have something in common here in the simblr community and that makes me so grateful to be connected to people who love the same thing as I do 🙂
I’ve recently seen (more than a few) people distributing their Mods folders wholesale, including the work of many creators who have policies that specifically prohibit re-uploading their content—not to mention those creators who may not have minded the re-uploading if the person had bothered to even mention a link to the original source. Worse, it seems like it’s presented as a charitable and friendly thing to do; the sentiment is almost always “now your game can look just like mine.” Besides the obviously misplaced sense of ownership, it just seems to me that ignoring the few simple conditions attached to freely shared content is a pretty poor way of showing your appreciation.
(Old Lady Grantham gif notwithstanding, I’m really not trying to provoke or guilt trip anyone. But I do think it’s important.)
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