what the fuck

What all ask boxes look like for me (submission boxes look exactly the same):

Left: what happens when I try to open dms (New Message does nothing); I can’t even read them. Right: when I try to go to someone’s dms from their blog.

Neither new things I post nor old things I post show up in the tags they’re in, even if they were before.

I can type things into replies, but it won’t actually post them.

All my likes, reblogs, and replies are hidden from the notes of EVERY post.

When I like or rb things it doesn’t show notes in someone’s activity / dash, except long-time followers (not sure about the exact cutoff/conditions).

If I reblogged and added something to this from a non-follower they wouldn’t even know. Check and see: my rb’s don’t even show up in the notes. So people couldn’t even find out I added something on by checking the notes either:

Not to mention: I’m hidden from all searches, can’t be @’d, past @’s of me are hidden from my notes, I don’t get notified when people reply to a post I replied to, my @’s don’t give notes, and every search on my blog is blanked. I can’t even ask/submit to myself even with anons, and lots more.

The owner of this Blog will be making as much noise at Tumblr Staff about how horrible this ban in on other sites such as Twitter or Facebook. 

The owner of this blog will be logging out of all accounts for the entirety of the 17th. Will Not run a queue. Will not even check the dash. Or give the money hungry executives a single page view to squeeze ad revenue out of

The ignorance of @staff and the continued poor decision making HAS CONSEQUENCES.

REMOVING NSFW CONTENT WILL;

- damage sex workers livelihoods

- damage artist’s livelihoods

- remove an environment where nsfw content could be viewed through filtering tags, which assisted PTSD survivors & others

- close off opportunities of sexual exploration and education

REMOVING NSFW CONTENT WILL NOT;

- fix the bot problem

- fix the nazi problem

- fix overall company revenue & client base respect&response

GET ANGRY. THIS IS NOT THE TUMBLR WE WANT TO SEE.

TOMORROW, REMEMBER TO

#LOGOFFSTANDUP

As you know, Tumblr is removing all NSFW content tomorrow, and as much as we’ve had our fun joking about it, I think it’s a pretty serious issue that falls back to extreme corporate greed and a complete lack of understanding what the consumers want out of this site. 

So @i-am-a-fish have been talking about this log-out event, I think it’s important to express to the people that operate this site that what they’re doing is self-destructive and totally stupid. Some people have already left the site, and I can understand that fear, but there’s still a slim chance they’ll listen to what we have to say if we’re persistent and consistent. 

Tomorrow, please join us for the log-out event, keep from posting, browsing and liking things on this site, leave it barren, to show what things might come to if Tumblr HQ doesn’t begin to listen to their community. Dont fret, regardless I’ll be back on the 18th.

i-am-a-fish and I have a twitter too, so if we can’t post the things we want to on here, we will on twitter.

Pukicho!               

Everyone please do not log in tomorrow, it’s really important if we want to spread a message to Staff, Yahoo, Verizon, and the people who buy ads on their sites.

This ban is blatantly sexist, and it’s doing serious harm to innocent sex workers and NSFW artists who make a living off of their commissions.

Staff has always disappointed their user base, but this new policy is incredibly disrespectful. Pukicho and I are going to be using Twitter tomorrow until the 18th when the protest is over, and we’ll be regularly posting on Twitter from now on.

what i, instead, saw as a minor was:

porn bots (which could be stopped by: captcha, double confirmation for accounts, not allowing url shorteners, not allowing rebloggers to delete captions, i would even be ok with hyperlinks not being allowed in reblogs)

fetishes and kinksters (which could be stopped by: adding more tags to the nsfw filter, including fetishes/kinks that appear as sfw)

people who forget tag their shit (which could be stopped by: an auto-tagging system for sensitive tags that would work similarly to the current block for apparently nsfw posts, but can give the op the option to delete incorrect tags)

pro-ana, pro-mia, romanticization of self-harm (which could be stopped by: banning the whole tag, as it just happened)

nazi, terfs (just kick them out for hate speech like twitter does)

pro-map thankfully only appeared once i was already past 18 but of course you could just ban the whole community + tag as it just happened.

prevent usernames with words that hate and pedophilic groups use to flag from being chosen at blog creation.

while i know that tumblr is a 13+ website, nsfw content was hidden from minors last year. most cp was deleted + outlawed (both irl and drawn) for good not even last month. and while those are recent changes they did make tumblr, overall, 13+ appropriate.