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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by x0x0 »

b1r6 wrote: post #62
buboard wrote: post #5

Alternative Title: "Tumblr will lose 80% of its visitors come December 18th" Another one: "Tumblr preparing to shut down"

This is exactly correct. Sure there are "clean" portions of Tumblr, but from what I can tell the real purpose is to host adult content. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's a fantastic magnet for eyes, with which to show ads. They're basically killing themselves with this.

The vast vast majority of advertisers do not want to be displayed next to porn.

Think of tumblr as nothing but a way to get pageviews for Cheerios and Volvo ads. It explains their decisions perfectly.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by bad_user »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

I think monitoring the child's online activity is a must, until he's mature enough and at 12 years old, that's basically the start of adolescence, when children aren't very trustworthy :-) On the other hand you can't let them know that you're constantly monitoring them, or they will feel suffocated and start a rebellion.

In other words I think having some kind of anti-virus software on their computer or tablet, that logs the websites they visit, the articles they view, is totally fine.

The problem is that many parents aren't very subtle when bringing up sensitive issues, causing anxiety and determining the child to hide in the future. And I don't have a good solution for it — my son is only 8 and I'm still thinking how to tackle such problems.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by chimeracoder »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

> From what I've seen, Tumblr can be a very toxic place and I could understand why advertisers would have problems with the content that ends up next to their ads.

The content you're describing is not affected by this Tumblr policy change. Secondly, the content that you're describing is pervasive across all social media networks (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and so forth).

I'm sorry for your daughter's health struggles, and I wish her (and you) well, but it's a completely separate topic from today's announcement.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by eigenstuff »

istorical wrote: post #35

I have been archiving many of my favorite tumblr's for some time now, but will have to go in and refresh my downloads. Highly recommend this app called TumblThree for archiving (also TumblTwo) https://www.jzab.de/content/tumblthree The UI is a little annoying and takes a little discovery to figure out, but the actual setup / install is painless. Edit: after reading more about the shutdown, it appears Tumblr may have…

Thank you for this! I had a pretty successful Tumblr where I posted all my crazy, colorful class notes from my math and physics classes and I've been wanting to get all those scans off there and into another place for safe back up. I had hundreds of posts on there, this will actually make it feasible to do this.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by amaccuish »

This sucks. I just deleted my profile since it'll all get deleted anyway. It's hard to get out there with particular fetish interests in the gay community. It was a great way to meet some genuinely awesome people. Now all I've got is Recon, which is aimed more at dating.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by type-2 »

bvinc wrote: post #21

My daughter at 12 got sucked into Tumblr and developed an eating disorder. She was in this gigantic web of pro-ana tumblrs with crazy diet plans that tell you to eat like 100 calories a day. Then the app would just keep suggesting more, "skin and bones", "thinspo", "meanspo". Holy crap there are some scary corners of Tumblr. I of course am more mindful of what she looks at, but she was hiding it and I can't monitor e…

Yeah but those are not adult content. They are undeniably very bad but tumblr is only banning porn.

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by ourcat »

istorical wrote: post #35

I have been archiving many of my favorite tumblr's for some time now, but will have to go in and refresh my downloads. Highly recommend this app called TumblThree for archiving (also TumblTwo) https://www.jzab.de/content/tumblthree The UI is a little annoying and takes a little discovery to figure out, but the actual setup / install is painless. Edit: after reading more about the shutdown, it appears Tumblr may have…

There are also many scripts out there in many languages on Github to 'archive' tumblrs. YMMV.

;)

Re: Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

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Post by pdimitar »

jrs95 wrote: post #10
pdimitar wrote: post #9

If Verizon bought Tumblr with the sole purpose of having one more service to serve ads to, and if banning the adult content move aims to please the advertisers then oh boy, are they in for a nasty surprise. Tumblr will become a ghost town in days.

Well, the "otherkin" will probably still be there, so I guess if anyone wants to market to them..

Yeah, good luck with that. :D
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