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If the purge only hit child porn and porn bots we would be perfectly fine with it. But that’s not the case.
We’re upset that after years of us complaining to Staff about the bots and child porn that it took Apple removing the app from the store for them to take action.
We’re upset that many artists, both safe and not safe for work, were purged. Many of them make their livelihoods through their art.
We’re upset Staff continues to lie to us and avoid our questions. It shouldn’t be that hard to tell us the truth.
We’re upset Staff made it impossible to search for NSFW content and the subjects they’ve deemed NSFW even if our settings allow it. For example “Yaoi” is currently one such search that now shows nothing.
We’re upset that despite this all the bots are still here. Many people are saying they’re actually getting worse.
We’re upset that Staff continues to make changes to how the site functions without informing us until it’s too late.
We’re upset that we still don’t know all the details about what blogs get purged and what ones don’t. Some say any blog marked NSFW is a target, others say it only takes an external link in the bio, others say it’s only artists, others say it’s anyone.
We’re not upset they’re trying to get rid of kid porn. We’re upset they’re failing at it in every way possible!
I knew a NSFW wlw blog. Its owner was a great girl who made sure all her content was appropriately tagged and marked as NSFW, she answered all questions truthfully and helped every girl who came to her asking for advice. I didn’t follow her because she posted a lot of porn but I checked her blog once a week to see what she’s up to and, admittedly, enjoy her NSFW posts.
This girl, who was careful and appropriate, who did literallynothing wrong, got purged.
But when I look at a post, its first ten notes are still porn bots.
The very worst part about this kind of thing is that conscientious taggers are always the easiest targets.
The porn bots, who have every reason to lie and mistag and annoyingly insert themselves where they’re not wanted are harder to catch. The nice people who are a benefit to the site get hit instead.
okay im going through the rules and stuff on matsodon rn and
sexworkers are good here as long as what they post is tagged. the gore thing is :// but like the person said sexworkers are supported here.
all of this. all of this is hot as hell.
they actually have specific rules disallowing pedophiles and nazis+the terfs from the last screenshot.
dogpiling and harrassment and stalking is listed as a no go thank fucking god??
there is not one specific staff account as each member of staff has their own thing so it’d be most likely easier to get in touch with them
and the best part
a peek at the list of blocked domains?
ive legit been on this site for ten minutes and i feel safer on this site than ive ever been on tumblr. again im not like, leaving tumblr but this place is nice as hell.
If you’re wanting to show your displeasure, don’t just tag staff or support. Take a page out of other consumer revolts and make sure your displeasure is known.
Don’t be an idiot. Do not threaten, harass or otherwise make this personal. Contact these companies, make your displeasure known, alert them that you are a customer and you will be leaving their brand across all boards unless they reverse their decision.
Be clear, be concise, be polite, but make your displeasure known.
Okay listen up artist freaking out over getting their art flagged as NSFW
You get the red line? Click on the right side.
You got 3 options. Click on the first one and it will be sent to manual review.
You should have your art “unflagged” in 24h.
Further more:
Reposts of the original art (NOT reblogs) will (probably) be flagged again, because the algorithm will pick on the same details.
You can only ask a review on the original post, doesn’t matter if you were the one reblogging it.
The AI picking out these posts are (probably) mainly looking for color schemes, patterns and shapes that may represent NSFW content. So take the AI as a bad eyesighted toddler and stop freaking out if it flags a banana as NSFW…
this won’t be official policy or anything but it will probably be the aggregate effect, yes.
why does this happen, you ask?
because the site rules are enforced by humans, and humans … are not very good at being 100% fair or unbiased. (at least, not when we’re acting in large numbers. any one person could be good at it, but the likelihood that most of a group is good at fairness drops as the group gets bigger.)
thus,
Even when we’re trying to be unbiased:
material that’s potentially in violation of the tumblr TOS featuring subjects that are not ‘default’ (NOT straight, cis, perisex, white, able-bodied, healthy, etc) have a greater chance of being noticed and reported. it’s more ‘visible’ because of a combined effect of ‘this might be a violation’ and the brain’s increased awareness when something is ‘out of the ordinary’. if straight-cis-white is ‘ordinary’: things that aren’t straight-cis-white grab our attention, and are that much more likely to be scrutinized for violations of the TOS. (see: fandom’s tendency to go after media that isn’t mediocre whitebread content for failing to be ‘good enough’.)
this is severely compounded by:
a lack of internal awareness of privilege/bias/etc amongst those who hold the majority opinion. (it’s the majority opinion because the majority holds that opinion.) if the majority is biased against something, that thing is more likely to get reported as a problem by people who don’t even acknowledge that they’re biased against it.
not to mention:
people who will participate in deliberately biased & malicious reporting. there’s plenty of people who are openly racist, openly homophobes, openly transphobes, etc. you think they won’t take special time to go after TOS violations from content that they openly loathe? because they do – and they will continue to do so.
why this happens in America/on American platforms in particular:
at the admin level: in America, the higher up the management ladder you go, the more likely the people making the decisions are straight white cis guys who do not have a strong awareness of their own privilege and/or bias against people who don’t share their privilege. These are the people who will be responsible for writing & enforcing the rules for nsfw content at Oath and/or Tumblr. they are likely to be unconsciously biased towards content that they personally like and against content they personally don’t like, so in aggregate, their decisions will be more likely to favor straight white cis guy tastes & enjoyments.
at the cultural level: America is obsessive about keeping sexual content from ‘the children’ than violent content, because our cultural values are very much rooted in puritanial Christian morality. We also still have a lot of racism, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, sexism, etc. baked directly into our culture. so if something can be concievably argued as a threat to preserving the innocence/sexual ignorance of a puritanical, white Christian kid, then it has much higher potential to be flagged as n sfw. (of course, this means LGBTQ+ content (romantic or otherwise) and non-white content is more likely to be tagged as in violation of the TOS.)
tl;dr: even if every single person moderating tumblr was acting with the best intentions, trying to be 100% fair and reporting/acting without bias, the drift will be towards creating a sexually chaste, LGBTQ+-unfriendly, white-centric, and cis-bodied/perisex only space as everything else gets reported more often as a problem and purged off the site.
that’s why censorship enforces baked-in privilege in brief, folx.
Sorry to bother you, but, this post has been incorrectly flagged as explicit content by tumblr. I’m reblogging it here in hopes that you (the OP) will see this note and file an appeal.
I would file an appeal myself, but apparently ONLY the OP can.
Wow, look at that!
No images to be misinterpreted by a bot
Nothing sexually explicit at all – not even mentions of sexually explicit content.
One mention of n sfw (even censored as here)
But I did mention lgbtq+ content 🤔
And talk about how Tumblr’s new policy will absolutely be enforced in racist and queerphobic ways
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