If you’re leaving Tumblr for good, then cancel your account on your way out.
Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.
If you can swing it, here’s why:
I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.
Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).
Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.
If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.
Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.
I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.
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Tumblr on December 17th…
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.
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Incoming Call from Tumblr
I know u guys see this stuff all the time but I really need more blogs to follow!! So please like/reblog if you post regularly about…
- Hellenic Polytheism 🏛
- Divination of all types 🃏
- Potions and Recipes 🍵
- Slavic Paganism 🦌
- Palmistry 👋🏻
- Lunar and Space Magick 🌙
- Curses and Hexes 💀
- Spirit & Ancestor Work 👻
- Non-Wiccan Magick ✨
- Storm and Weather Magick 🌩
- Honestly just witchcraft in general!!! 🌟
And I’ll follow you via my main @zeuss-kid !!!!
Save The Date : 2019.
Full Moon Dates.
🌕 Full moon : Jan 21
🌕 Full moon : Feb 19
🌕 Full moon : Mar 20
🌕 Full moon : Apr 19
🌕 Full moon : May 18
🌕 Full moon : Jun 17
🌕 Full moon : Jul 16
🌕 Full moon : Aug 15
🌕 Full moon : Sep 14
🌕 Full moon : Oct 13
🌕 Full moon : Nov 12
🌕 Full moon : Dec 12
Sabbat Festivals.
🕯 Imbolc - Candlemas : Feb 1
🌸 Ostara - Vernal Equinox : Mar 20
🔥 Beltane - Mid Spring : May 1
☀️ Litha - Summer Solstice : Jun 24
🌾 Lammas - Harvest Festival : Aug 1
🍁 Mabon - Autumnal Equinox : Sep 21
🎃 Samhain - All Hallows’ Eve : Oct 31
❄️ Yule - Winter Solstice : Dec 21
Celestial Signs.
♑️ Capricorn : Dec 22 - Jan 19
♒️ Aquarius : Jan 20 - Feb 18
♓️ Pisces : Feb 19 - Mar 20
♈️ Aries : Mar 21 - Apr 19
♉️ Taurus : Apr 20 - May 20
♊️ Gemini : May 21 - Jun 20
♋️ Cancer : Jun 21 - Jul 22
♌️ Leo : Jul 23 - Aug 22
♍️ Virgo : Aug 23 - Sep 22
♎️ Libra : Sep 23 - Oct 22
♏️ Scorpio : Oct 23 - Nov 21
♐️ Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21
tumblr in a nutshell
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