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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by vasco »

ajacksified wrote: post #89
deminature wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3rd party reddit apps rival reddit's own app in terms of popularity, and will be significantly hamstrung by these changes if NSFW content can only be accessed in the official app. Lots of non-porn content is marked NSFW. It may end up having a much larger impact than reddit corporate anticipates.

"reddit corporate"? Like Steve, who was the original founder and is the current CEO, or Alexis, another original founder, who is the executive chairman? There is absolutely zero way they're unaware of the impact and I guarantee you they have thought this move through thoroughly.

You mention it like they haven't done a ton of user hostile releases, like the constant UX dark patterns to push you to a mobile app, etc. This argument is so strange, should we refute anything against Meta with "but the original founder is there, there's no corporate"?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by nibbleshifter »

_8j50 wrote: post #53
ndiddy wrote: post #17

Imgur will also be deleting images that aren't associated with a user account. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/

Several screenshot apps upload to imgur without an account too

I wrote a command line screenshot tool that did exactly that years ago...

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Post by Gigachad »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #87

The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.

I think it’s more likely that hosting sexual content involves having to deal with loads of abusive material which is hard to detect and process, and which requires great haste in dealing with.

It’s hard to have an army of dirt cheap outsourced moderators sort out regular porn from revenge porn.

If you take too long dealing with regular spam, not much happens. If you take too long dealing with this kind of content, you get cut off from payment providers and advertising.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by [deleted] »

user- wrote: post #84
tacitusarc wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a reference: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/his-butt-crack-photos-at-magi...

The reference being someones ass crack having a picture taken without their consent and posted for millions to see, which is why the OP of that time got banned temporarily i think for that. Its pretty hypocritcal of imgur to use that image , and somewhat ironic to use it in this TOS update

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by mjr00 »

devjab wrote: post #50
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #32

I'm surprised imgur still exists. It's been years since reddit started doing their own image hosting, and that was basically the only thing anyone used it for.

Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit? According to this https://blog.gitnux.com/imgur-statistics/ it has 300 million active monthly users, and if you go there and click around on a few images it seems to have as many comments as Reddit does. I don't really use either sites, but isn't Reddit mostly a collection of links to content from other places? Whenever I needed to share an…

> Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit?

Not really. Even the most popular posts on the imgur front page average around 1,000 upvotes (compared to 40,000 for the reddit front page with default subs) and most are only getting 300 upvotes with 20-30 comments. That's about as popular as a middle-tier subreddit, of which there are thousands. Which I guess isn't "dead" but those certainly aren't numbers that are going to get the VCs opening checkbooks.

Measuring active users for imgur is tricky because a massive proportion of those users are just using it as an image host and not "engaging" in the community. And even a lot of that engagement is just being driven by Reddit rather than coming from imgur itself.

So no, I think calling imgur a popular social media site is extremely misleading: it's an extremely popular image host that happens to have a social media site that a small community uses attached to it.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by andybak »

romwell wrote: post #119
armchairhacker wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a problem on mobile, because old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered and there isn't uBlock for iOS. The go-to Reddit app for iOS is Apollo, and they're going to be affected. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

> old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered Eh. I exclusively use https://old.reddit.com/ on both Desktop and Mobile, and never felt inconvenienced. Our cell phones are large enough today to use 2008-era websites without any additional bells and whistles. But, of course, people who are already used to whatever UI they chose are going to suffer. Alas.

Yeah. I use old. mainly because I prefer it on mobile.

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Post by saagarjha »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #82
cfiggers wrote: post #65

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"Manufacture a consensus"?

It's pretty common to use alt accounts to upvote and comment on your own posts - I used to do this when I cared. Some people take it really far and have their alts also repost their content to get multiple shots to "go viral." Some people also make down vote networks to silence comments they don't like. Recently, I have used these accounts to get answers to questions: post the question with one account and ~3 bad but…

Why do you do it?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by ezekiel68 »

user- wrote: post #84
tacitusarc wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a reference: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/his-butt-crack-photos-at-magi...

The reference being someones ass crack having a picture taken without their consent and posted for millions to see, which is why the OP of that time got banned temporarily i think for that. Its pretty hypocritcal of imgur to use that image , and somewhat ironic to use it in this TOS update

We don't know who the person was. We have no interest in forensically doxxing them. The person stands in as a proxy for any person. Neither the person's life, livelihood, reputation, nor dignity are tarnished in any way by the posting of this image. No person has the "right" to not be photographed in public. There is no evidence the posting of this photo resulted in the financial gain of the poster.

Where there is no harm, there can be no foul.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by ezekiel68 »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #87

The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.

The other repliers have mentioned possibly "why"s. But your "what" stands regardless.
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