good idea to ban nsfw content on a 13+ website. like as a concept, it is a good policy!!
no more cp
children will not get exposed to nsfw shit on here anymore (literally you could not search the tag of any female character, including adult ones, without finding porn of her. after this ban was announced, a 15 year old i know’s first reaction was “finally i can search any tag ever”)
no more dudes with blogs that are just gifs of stolen footage from sex workers
no more nerds with hentai blogs. theyre not inherently bad but i personally hate them
bad things about the nsfw ban
will hurt sex workers who use this site to advertise
bad implementation: things getting incorrectly flagged as nsfw. several sfw lgbt tags and a few fandom tags (like, for children’s tv shows) were made unsearchable, and some innocent people’s blogs were deleted. this is more a problem with the implementation, than the policy itself.
not necessarily a bad thing about the nsfw ban, but a bad thing related to it: tumblr ONLY did this bc they got taken out of the app store. they don’t actually give a shit
things that are unrelated to the nsfw ban but important to note
tumblr still hasn’t banned the terfs or the nazis, and they need to.
tumblr STILL promotes pedophilic content. in their “year in review 2018″ thing, many of the “top ships” listed were pedophilic (like sheith) or incestuous (like thorki). this is disgusting.
ah yes, tumblr is “banning porn”, you know, “““porn”““, like that one time they had their bots tag basically all lesbian and trans blogs as ““““““porn”““““. i truly trust the clowns who run this website to not literally fuck this up in the most heinous way imaginable while desperately begging for apple to restore their shitty app
come the 17th we’re not even gonna be given the chance to leave tumblr on our own terms because the algorithm theyre using to flag shit is gonna kick us off for a false-positive before we get a chance to make another post
this is 5% joke and 95% actual concern almost nobody is screening the posts that get auto-flagged in the first place. a half dozen of my mutuals already got banned during that purge a few weeks ago even when they’ve never posted pornography. how the hell is this going to play out when the new guidelines hit. what the fuck happens.
