thepathofnevermore:

• 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.

griimrose:

mintiemarmalade:

@staff this is beyond shitty.

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.

like what the actual hell @staff.

FIX THIS.

or you’re going to lose more than just the porn blogs.

@staff