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I'll be fine with it as long as I'm not targeted for using an ad-blocker.^note No, I have TV Tropes whitelisted because they actually care about what ads are being shown.

edited 26th Jul '16 6:10:55 PM by valozzy

You know, I just sorta realized that for all the talk about how strange The Discourse™ gets on Tumblr, arguments about the 2016 Presidential Election on Tumblr really aren't any different from anywhere else.

edited 17th Sep '16 3:05:24 PM by Zennistrad

The 2016 American Presidential election is bizarre.

Honestly a lot of tumblr discourse has been slowly bleeding into the mainstream, most of it gets discarded, but plenty of it is taking hold of the culture. And I think this is a good thing. By presenting radical ideas, it means when people try and find a middle ground in their head, it's still pretty gosh darn liberal.

That's probably true to. Though complicated by the rise (or exposure of?) a very far Right.

edited 19th Sep '16 9:58:04 AM by phantom1

I suppose presenting radical ideas in the hopes that the mean takeaway is slanted to their side is not a tactic exclusive to the left.

i'm leaving this here http://ewolf20.tumblr.com/

Welp, it finally happened. I finally reblogged a NSFW pic to my main blog by complete accident. Kind of astonished that it took this long, to be honest.

Also took me a moment to figure out that you can't undo reblogs with control-Z once initial the panic subsided, lol.

That is one of the main reasons I don't want to have an nsfw blog. All it takes is a faulty misclick on a phone and bad service to not realize it for ages.

I made an art blog

Uh oh. http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/tumblr-safe-mode/#nOHI6C1DRmqL

I've already had 2 random posts flagged as NSFW. but it only shows up when I'm on the dashboard, which is inconvenient when I want to report them!

So just don't use the tags #gay, #lesbian, or #bisexual. You know you can get creative with the changes you can make with those tags.

Not only is it NOT doing anything about explicit content, a majority of what it does flag is innocuous. People under 18 have to keep Safe Mode on and will miss out on totally safe posts.

There's already a petition to remove it, too. https://www.change.org/p/tumblr-remove-tumblr-s-brand-new-safe-mode-update

I'm just passing by as I'm not really a Tumblr user, but...

Corporations. It's always corporations.

Maybe they'll finally get people who can actually code worth a shit to work on the site.

One can always dream...

Are we sure this "safe mode" is on? I don't have an account, which means it should be active for me, yet every single NSFW blog I follow is just as available for me as it was before with no posts missing.

> Maybe they'll finally get people who can actually code worth a shit to work on the site.

I wonder how successful a crowd funded venture would be,I mean they have a lot of users so it certainly should be possible

edited 24th Jun '17 9:56:42 AM by Ultimatum

NSFW blogs aren't being blocked, but random non-NSFW posts are.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/25/tumblr-fixes-safe-mode-issue-lgbtq/

"In addition, anything an Explicit Tumblr reblogs used to get marked as sensitive, even if they originally came from non-Explicit accounts. As a result, a lot more squeaky clean posts got caught in the filter. Going forward, the website will no longer mark a post as sensitive just because of a reblog if it was from a safe account in the first place. Safe Mode also tends to hide photosets, which are always marked as sensitive until the poster submits a request to have a human staff member review all the pictures in it. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait a while for a fix to that one: Tumblr is working on a way for its algorithm to be able to review multiple pictures as a set."

Well it's on now, they turned Tumblr into a walled garden. The New Safe Mode is up, and there's no way to disable it without an account. Even Google didn't do this.

Oh photosets are almost all automatically labelled explicit that explains the user commenting on a dessert blog that one of the posts was marked explicit even though the post in question was a perfectly ordinary cake.

if I recall correctly there's a lot of errors in the system that they're trying to fix . It's kind of a Hanlon's razor situation

edited 1st Aug '17 6:43:40 AM by Xopher001

I feel sorry for the makers of Dream Daddy. They made a game with a positive portrayal of gay, bisexual and trans dads but some of their fans just ruin it with their toxic behavior.