DEFYING GRAVITY ON A DAILY BASIS

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

By now we are sure everyone has heard about the new Tumblr policy regarding NSFW content going into effect on Dec. 17th 2018.

We want assure everyone that our Event will be going ahead as planned, only with a few differences. All of the SFW content (and the NSFW written content) created will be showcased on this blog as planned since Tumblr will still allow us to do this. Any of the NSFW and ‘The Chuck Tingle Experience’ art will only be allowed to be submitted to the Ao3 Collection and of course on any other social media platform you wish to put it up.

If at any point anyone changes their mind and wishes to withdraw from the event please let us know so we can take your name off the list. We understand completely if you do and will do what we can to make it easy for you.

@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.