Yes, we allow NSFW content, we just asked that it be tagged with a ‘NSFW’ flag (available when you’re creating your post) so that it can be filtered out for the convenience of other users who wish to screen out such content.
@staff@support okay so you’re taking away anything remotely explicit from the 18+ users on this site and are throwing in lgbtq content as explicit, what are you going to do about the Nazis? Or the actual child predators?
Tumblr wants to take away all adult content on the platform, abandoning a large majority of it’s userbase which uses the site for this exact matter. Please sign the above petition if you would like to keep tumblr the way it is. They need to be shown that they will lose a HUGE amount of their traffic if they’re too carry this through.
So in another fantastic and well planned out move by @staff@support‘s resident circus show of sewage for brain brogrammers, a large and varied assortment of blogs have been completely fucked by the new changes, and it is completely unknown as of now what the criteria for your blog to be targeted is, or which combination of fuckups you’ll encounter. You may get all of them, like I have, or only one of them!
As of now, I cannot search my own blog.
For those of you unaffected, when you search a blog, it should come up like this.
Furthermore, I’m unable to search tags in my own sidebar
though I can search them on my individual user page!
Finally, none of my recent posts are showing up in ANY tags. Searching both the tumblr search and the tumblr tagged for my own god damn salt tag #ori salts returns posts that aren’t mine, and have nothing to do with the tag.
“But have you contacted staff? I’ve contacted @staff, and they gave me this generic fucking response.
Literally didn’t give me two seconds of their day and just copy pasted off of their help page. I have a strong feeling that they don’t give a fuck and have no intention of fixing this.
My blog isn’t marked explicit, so there’s no reason why everything should be hidden from the site. For those of you experiencing the same or similar issues, let me know in the notes.
What I’ve come across seems to be a common denominator, but so far I’m just spitballing based on the evidence brought to me, so take it with a grain of salt.
It seems that one of the criteria for being hidden against your will with zero knowledge or warning is being a good and respectful tumblr user, following guidelines, and marking/reblogging/liking posts with any of their arbitrarily picked blocked tags! If you repeatedly tag/reblog/like things like the ns//fw tag, you might just get a nice hidden flag on your blog.
And no, I don’t mean that your blog is forced to explicit, or that somehow your visibility has been set to hide you.
This is what the slide looks like when the slide is on:
And this is it off, yet on a blog that is still inexplicably hidden:
If your blog has been flagged for explicit activity, that blue slide will be faded, and you’ll be unable to click it to turn it off.
This is NOT what is happening here.
This is some secondary explicit flag that @staff has decided to completely and arbitrarily hide from users, and you only know if you’ve been hit by searching for your blog, your tags, or your art, and finding out on your own!
Fun times!
And yet porn bots are still showing up in my recommended posts daily 🙂
Porn bots are leaving porn links on my posts about women raped in World War 2 so
Ok so, since Tumblr is being an over protective Christian mother int he worse possible ‘Carrie’ sort of way, I’m going to ask that ya’ll reblog and spread the word about your favorite writers and artists again. Likes are nice, but reblogging is way better. And with the way things are and tags and searches being literally nonexistence, we need you so much! I know activity has gone way, way down for me and other writers and artists, and now, it’s gotten so much worse. Tumblr has literally fucked up being able to search for anything at all. Your reblogs mater and are so important. If you want to keep seeing content from us, please, for the love of god, reblog. I hate asking this, but it means the world to me to be able to keep creating here. If Tumblr keeps fucking up then a lot of your fvaorite artists and writers may move elsewhere. Hopefully Tumblr will get everyone back to working order soon, but for now, YOU are the most important thing to us creators.
Agreed. Nobody likes or wants to guilt trip but the reality is that, especially if you create mature content or content that could be deemed risky (such as LGBT content) most specifically to advertisers, creators need help in getting their works out there because as we are seeing in real time the built in tools of the system are falling to pieces. Algorithm, what algorithm?! Thus we rely on others to reblog, moreso now than normal (and we already rely on them a lot) to gain exposure and, in the case of those of us who are selling art, pay the bills. It’s why I constantly re-reblog my work: I love making art but as a creator love isn’t eyes on my work or money in my pocket or food in my stomach.
So please consider, if you like someone’s work, reblog it–it goes a long way.
I aint gonna articulate this right but I’ve noticed there’s this weird sub culture on tumblr where it’s frowned upon to say anything positive about your life. Like occasionally I see someone post something like “I love my job so much” and a few responses are like “wish I could find a job :/” or “must be nice to not have depression” and it’s really strange. A lot of people are pulling themselves out of dark places or finally figuring out how to be happy (no easy feat) and they don’t need you projecting your own demons on their moments of happiness they wanted to share.
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