Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio CEO
why not get rid of like the last reason I’m on this hellsite
Well shit, time to move my shit to somewhere else (not that I post much nsfw stuff here to begin with)
Can I have the Egg Santa himself as the gift this year ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)?
{ This thing is totally nonsense… What
have I written? LOL-! }
😈 THE DEVIL:
The Devil was quite sick of Dice’s complains
since he always argued about his boss’ style, the fact that the Devil still
keeps wearing nothing but his fur is obscene and unprofessional.
Yes, even the Devil could get sick hearing
the same and old complaining (it’s since quite millions years he still listens
to the same stuff). He’s not a Saint, he has no patience.
Why don’t people appreciate his butt?
They should feel honoured to admire it (and hearing its voice –you know what
kind of voice.)
The only voices that his butt produces
are his farts.
Yes, his butt hole sings, it speaks and
tells so many stories and it emits the most beautiful (and rotting) melodies.
Seriously, they smell like corpses.
God, really, it’s something unhuman. He feels
so misunderstood because nobody appreciates his butt art… Poor Devil, such an
unappreciated artist.
Sometimes, his patrons just faint in his
hall or they give up giving him all their money (they don’t want to suffocate and
die young). Well, it’s a good way to win without effort because everyone fears
his ass-hole.
For once, he has to put aside his diabolic
butt and melodies and wear something more appropriate (and stop eating beans).
Especially his infernal beans are the worst, they are truly nauseating and it’s
also a torture the Devil uses to make his sinners suffer. Yes, he tortures them
with his farts. He’s too sadistic, there’s no worse torture.
By the way, I doubt he would wear a
leather black jacket. What do you except? He would feel like playing Grease and
he’s not a real fan of musicals. No way!
Then, leather is very uncomfortable and it
makes him sweat a lot. Hell is not a cold place and so he would melt.
He does not see himself dressed like a
rebel teenager and he’s not going to put grease on his fur. Oh, god, it’s
really mad!
The monocycle is cool and all but it’s
not his style and he’s quite lazy to move his smelly ass since people are
usually the ones who visit him.
Maybe he would dress up like a gangster,
it’s a cool style, it’s more like his personality and this suit is not made of
leather.
Anyway, he would get sick of it the next
day and he’ll miss so much his nudity and tormenting Dice and the patrons with his farts.
He cannot say goodbye to it and nobody
will suffocate his f-art.
Hamsterandtrianglenose 