I literally did not believe this was a real thing until I just tried it.
Holy cow.
I have spent the last two weeks increasingly irritated with (what has seemed to me) the dramatically alarmist attitude about the shit that’s going down with tumblr but….damn.
Like, I still don’t think it’s over. I still don’t think this is the end. But that’s a far larger speed bump that I anticipated. Tumblr, what the fuck.
“Dick pic” is also gone. “Pictures of dicks” gets you Dick Grayson.
“Fuck” and “fuck off” will get blogs with those word in the description, but no posts.
Several slurs are gone – fag, slut, whore; probably others. “Dyke” is still in, though, as well as “fag hag.” (I’m aware that whether or not those are slurs depends on the community.)
This is a sign of a platform that Does Not Care about its users. Not because they’re blocking terms they’ve decided are offensive or connected with illegal activity – because they won’t tell you that some terms can’t be searched, won’t tell you why the posts have been removed from search, won’t let you know whether or how your blog will be affected.
Chronic pain, as mentioned, is gone. “Pain” gets this result:
Followed by normal search results. (Note: 7 Cups of Tea, at least, is a commercial site; the “trained active listeners” are random users who’ve completed a few questionnaires.)
@thebibliosphere Joy joy joy joy joy…. If your wondering about a sudden slow down on your traffic
My traffic hasn’t slowed down because I use my own tag for my chronic health stuff, though a couple of my posts about chronic pain are gone.
Other than that my nsfw stuff is still intact. This purge has been random as all hell.
The fact that it’s been over a week and they haven’t even addressed the many many unfairly deactivated blogs is pissing me right off.
I highly doubt at this point that I’m getting my blog back at all. Despite the fact that my only crime was to write a lot about having chronic pain and what it was like to live like that
Also of fucking course one of the blocked tags is the one discussing their screw up
I’m feeling very bitter at the moment
If it’s anything like the mass censorship LJ started employing, then I very much doubt this is even the tip of the iceberg, or that they’ll make it a priority to restore unfairly banned blogs.
Meanwhile I continue to block upwards of 50 pornbot blogs a week from my follower list, and I can’t turn my inbox back on because it winds up with a bunch of neo-nazis sending me suicide bait.
But sure. Deleting my posts about being disabled is helping. Thanks Tumblr.
i don’t understand what’s being said. you can type ‘chronic pain’ in the search box and get results. is there some other thing that’s being blocked? i know absolutely none of my posts are showing up in tags now, even though my blog is not set to nsfw.
Some are showing and some are not, several of my posts are just gone. I spent hours going through my archive manually looking for them and I knew were to look cause I keep track of my chronic illness posts for reference purposes.
Several of my friends who blog about their chronic illnesses and conditions have had their blogs straight up deleted. The reason they were given was for talking about chronic pain.
The reason for this is unclear, but there’s some thoughts that it might be because the word “chronic” used to be/is slang for weed and they’re somehow trying to crack down on drug use or something. Heck only knows though. All I know is tumblr used to have one of the best spoonie/chronic health issue communities online and a lot of folk are either gone or their posts are.
I might believe that @thebibliosphere about the “chronic” tag, but the tags “cocaine”, “meth”, and “weed” all still work so its not a drug issue
Welp. There goes that theory.
@thebibliosphere could it be because “chronic pain” and “child p*orn” start with the same letters and their algorithm sucks?
Hell if I know but it might be, though from what I’ve been told it’s the full phrase tumblr is taking issue with for reasons unknown.
I’m planning to contact them asking why such an important aspect of the disabled community is being flagged as inappropriate, but feck only knows if they’ll actually reply.
I would also like to point out that I’m still getting porn bots following me with the same regularity I did before this.
I don’t remember what post it was, but I definitely saw someone saying that all this “banned” content is not gone. It’s just been hidden, and the option to turn off safe search has been removed. You can still find it, you just have to go directly through the blogs.
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