Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com. “It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that.”
Bought on a whim, for a song.
Sigh. Oh well. You get what you pay for. We pay nothing to post or read posts on Tumblr. So… 🤷♂️
But maybe they’ll stop using the stupid Disney algorithm that mistakes sand dunes, my forearms, and @bareherself’s shoulders as naughty bits.
By Thomas Oldenough | August 13, 2019 | Comments Off on So ya see. I love your “policy” if you will about sending forearm pics instead of dick pics! However…a girl is curious 🙈🙈
Sadly Tumblr doesn’t want your curiosity to be satisfied.
The best I can do, sadly, is more of the same. I hope that will do.
Today, Tumblr’s owner, Verizon Media, announced that Automattic plans to acquire Tumblr. Automattic is the technology company behind products such as WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and Simplenote—products that help connect creators, businesses, and publishers to communities around the world.
We couldn’t be more excited to be joining a team that has a similar mission. Many of you know WordPress.com, Automattic’s flagship product. WordPress.com and Tumblr were both early pioneers among blogging platforms.
Automattic shares our vision to build passionate communities around shared interests and to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, especially when they come from under-heard voices and marginalized communities.
We look forward to continuing to create products that empower your self-expression and sense of community and that build a better, more inclusive internet.
We’re excited for our future together!
<3 Tumblr
Well this could be different. Automattic has its own “community standards” concerns but unlike Verizon they’re at least they see content in terms of something more than billable data and bandwidth.
this post was flagged today and there isn’t even an appeal button, like there normally is.
FLESH BAD VERY BAD EEWWWW
Yeah, they flagged my forearms the other day, also with no appeal. Too busy rubbing their pants over all the porn bots, racist and Nazi 8chan reposts, and trafficking/pedo posts they let pass unfiltered, to get it right I guess.
By Thomas Oldenough | August 5, 2019 | Comments Off on For the record…
Tumblr’s algorithms are written by shitheads. Now they keep thinking my forearms are dicks or something and flagging them without even the stupid “appeal” button!
Meanwhile other bots and predator bloggers are still cheerfully uploading commercial porn, child porn, snuff porn, etc.
But whatever. Tumblr takes their cues from Verizon and Apple execs where the same old “touch a tit it’s ‘adult content;” cut off a tit it’s “drama.”
By Thomas Oldenough | July 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Hey! I didn’t think your account was marked as explicit, but when I logged on today your profile picture was blurred just so you know! Hope you have a good day!!
Yeah. I’ve noticed. I mean, to be fair my blog really is pretty explicit, and I even marked it as “adult content” when I first set it up. I have no idea why they finally threw the switch though.
Someone told me that they do it automatically if you’ve got flagged posts in your feed. And I (reluctantly) remove those whenever they turn up. So maybe they’ll turn me back into a real boy again some day.
Still, it’s pretty $%!@$% annoying that neither you nor I can search my blog anymore. I’ve got more than 7,000 posts, with nearly every single one having an original, usually editorial comment associated with it.
But Tumblr’s corporate masters don’t like being reminded they have penises, and Apple (who kicked things off by banning Tumblr apps from their store) actively deny they have penises because genitals make us look less like milled aluminum Ken and Barbie dolls.
So again, I’m sorry the prim little knees-squeezing twits bunched their undies about “adult content” in the first place. But I’m not terribly surprised they finally got around to flagging mine.
For the record I keep a desultory mirror of my blog at https://oldenoughtobeyourfather.com. I keep that up to date sometimes mostly. And the tags work. And I manually add posts that get flagged over there too. Oh, and search still works on it. But I digress…
At any rate, thank to you and everyone else who’s let me know. It may or may not be permanent but I so, so appreciate you for keeping an eye out for me. Thank you!
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Yeah, if I understand this correctly they do that when you’ve got flagged content somewhere in your blog. One of my recent ones got flagged, an extraordinarily mild one with a little bit of bare male butt with a strong implication that heterosexual intercourse was happening outside the camera’s frame. Kind of outrageous considering what does still seem to get through, but, hey, “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown Tumblr.”
🤷♂️
I don’t mind getting filtered if I’m just reposting and captioning straight-up porn. It bugs me when there’s editorial content – especially when I’m trying to tackle pernicious stereotypes.
Long distances are hard because a thousand words are still no substitute when this is what one of you really wants to say, and the other wants to hear…
This is a first for me and I’m just mind blown. Reaching out to the tribe on this one…. no clue what to do, how to respond, or if I even should respond, or just block him/her? @instructor144@kittysparkleslove@mrbear215@cutebutdeadlylittledemon and all the others because I don’t know them all yet.
@nicjourney this is what is known as a “fuckboy,” a particularly loathsome denizen of Tumblr. And my reblog of this is known as a “fuckboy alert.” The folks will do what they do with fuckboys; for your part, block that idiot.
Sorry to hear you’re having issues. It must be difficult to be so
desperate that you blindly reach out to strangers for panty suggestions.
First understand that male incontinence is nothing to be embarrassed
about. It happens to a lot of men, even fuckboys. A quick Google search
and I was able to flesh out (no giggling, little friend!) this option
for you. Note that there is a pink option as well – we don’t judge here
so use whichever makes you feel your best (dry) self. I believe they all
come in an extra small so they will fit your penis perfectly. Stay dry!
Important note: This post relates to brief texts sent via anonymous DM to anonymous recipients. It does not relate to long, lurid text and definitely doesn’t relate to dick pics or crotch shots. With that in mind.
Next important note: If you’re not used to getting shit like this in your inbox it feels upsetting as hell. You’re under no obligation not to feel upset. They’re making presumptions about you that are unwarranted and that you neither requested nor deserved. I’m sorry that ever happens for so many reasons! I’m especially sorry it happened to you, the original poster.
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I get moderately presumptuous one-liner messages like this pretty often but I don’t really think of the correspondents as “fuckgirls.” I think the psychology of message is complex enough that you can’t automatically label someone as an asshole.
This doesn’t mean you should assume they’re not assholes. Just don’t automatically declare them assholes.
Sometimes they’re just clueless newbies. Sometimes they’re trying to open with a “bang” in hopes of catching your attention. Sometimes they’re responding to something you posted days or months ago. Possibly something you posted totally unzipped a fantasy for them and they imagine you’ll receive their “enthusiasm” in the same spirit you inspired it in them. Sometimes they foolishlly imagine an “invitation” you drunk or horny posted last night doesn’t disgust you in the cold light of morning.
And, sure, sometimes they’re just plain old fucking assholes, dickwads, dilholes, or dog-lipped bung stoppers.
I’m inviting the OP to adopt this view not out of generosity to their correspondent. I mean, it’s not your responsibility to interpret someone else’s state of mind.
Instead I’m suggesting it because it’s less stressful to you!
99% of the time I’ve noticed that if you simply don’t respond then you’ll never hear from them again.
I can’t prove it for Tumblr but patterns in other platforms suggest that most actual jerks and assholes will pile through a stack of blogs, spamming similar (often copy/pasted) messages to multiple recipients in hopes of getting a reply. So the chance of them stumbling back across you are pretty low.
And even if they’ve singled you out they still almost never return if you don’t respond.
In all cases, most of the time I just close their chat on my browser or delete the conversation from my app list and go on with my day.
It’s not that they don’t bother me, it’s that I don’t let them bother me, if that makes sense.
If they do make a comeback, or they do bother me, then I’ll block them. If they really bother me then I’ll stalk their blog, make a decision about whether they’re posting genuinely creepy stuff, and report them if they’re doing anything reportable. And then I’ll block them.
The point here is that isolated little out-of-the-blue snippets like “What kind of panties are you wearing” or “I’m so wet for you, Daddy” are hard to assess for meaning or relevance. Since I have exactly zero contact with, experience of, relationship with, or obligation to them I don’t feel obliged to respond. And you don’t have an obligation to respond either.
Final note about trolls: if you do feel trolled, stalked, or otherwise jeopardized the #1 recommendation from experts with online experience going back to the earliest days of dial-up bulletin boards is: don’t respond! If they have to send 10 messages before you respond that just sets their expectation: “ok, it takes 10 messages to get this one to respond.” If it takes 100 messages they’ll just set that expectation instead. Because what motivates and gratifies them is getting that response.
Way up top I said don’t label every person who contacts you with out of the blue “solicitations” is an asshole. Because it’s more stressful if you do that. But! It’s ok to assume that everyone to drops something like that on you could be a troll. And rule #1 is “don’t feed the trolls.”
The end result is the same, right? You either ignore them (all you need to do 90% of the time), block them (9.9%), or if necessary report them (.1% of the time.) But taking that approach is just better for your own mental health.
Finally, because some people genuinely are newbies, or shy, or clumsy (especially if their native language isn’t the same as yours), giving one small iota of benefit-of-the-doubt keeps the blowback they receive proportionate: they say something ignorable so you ignore them.
Bottom line: when people say ignorable things, ignore them. When they say actionable things take action (block or report.) And in all cases don’t respond directly because if they’re trolls or stalkers you’ve just made their day.
