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That might be harder to enforce than it seems. For instance, one of the more recent derails happened because someone made a complaint about character designs, and then it turned out that person had ties to issues pertaining to social justice and so it became relevant.

How do you even discuss Tumblr without social justice?

Like... "Oh man, I really love the navy blue colour in the background."

I suppose I could complain about how they tried to get around people blacklisting the recommended blogs thing by changing it to "Here's a blog!"

It is rather difficult, given that the microblogging nature of the site leaves most of the content with very little substance. The only posts that have anything that can be talked about to any serious degree are the political ones.

Maybe we just shouldn't have a Tumblr thread then.

So apparently someone decided it would be fun to post a lot of NSFW pictures in a couple popular tags (mostly, for some reason, Youtubers that are Pewdiepie-adjacent, but also things like "feminism" and "social justice.")

So be careful if you go through those tags, I guess.

edited 2nd Aug '14 11:52:17 AM by Mukora

4chan's /b/ and /pol/ are doing another raid. Probably best not to talk about it or it'll draw their ire.

I don't see why mentioning that would case stuff to happen.

Last time we talked about this, Eddie told us to stop.

I was simply warning people. Don't see how that would cause issues.

I saw a post last night from one of the user's I follow saying how they hate the phrase "d***bed down" ("dumbed down; they censored it), and tagging it as ableist language.

This reminds me of someone else saying that "lame" is ableist. How reasonable is that line of thought?

And on the similar note, I think it's silly that some people hate John Green because he quoted Laci Green saying a slur. For context, he was defending her from death threats because she used the word "tranny" two years before, and she apologized for it.

We need to start being more lenient to what people people say on the Internet in the past, because as our current generation grows up on the Internet, we will have to face the fact that virtually everyone makes verbal blunders when they're younger. And the Internet makes it easier to record such occurrences. We need to acknowledge that our friends and idols have said problematic things in the past—and that's okay as long as they've stopped doing so.

If not, holding relationships on the Internet will be real, real hard.

edited 3rd Aug '14 7:48:24 AM by chihuahua0

This is the site with yourfaveisproblematic

Basically, tvtropes higher ups think that any extended conversation about 4Chan will end up attracting their attention our way.

It's not. At all. To such a degree I feel it would be a waste of my time to try to put to words - if the proper words even exist - why it's all part of the larger idiocy surrounding Tumblr's Social Justice Morons.

This. If there's one thing people on the internet don't ever seem to understand, it's that people can actually change.

That's really dumb, tbh.

I really doubt they actually give two shits about us.

So is somebody going to rat me out for that?

edited 3rd Aug '14 12:00:03 PM by takashi.0

If they have a problem about what's being said about them on other websites by people who are minding their own business and not going over to try to bother them on their own turf, that's their problem and they need to grow up about it.

edited 3rd Aug '14 2:54:43 PM by TheSpaceJawa

4chan usually doesn't bother people outside of their own website unless they're provoked, though.

Then as long as none of us go over there and provoke them there shouldn't be a problem then, should there?

edited 3rd Aug '14 3:03:25 PM by TheSpaceJawa

One thing I hate on Tumblr is when people put music players set to autoplay on their blogs. Autoplaying music was bad design in the 90s, and it's still bad web design today.

Yeah, I hate that too. Thankfully I usually have my sound on mute when I'm browsing the web.

Whst'd even worse about it is that it can actually scare the piss out of certain people. Even if it's a really calm song, any unexpected noise will freak them out.

You'd think Tumblr of all places would realize that.

I think their policy discourages it, but they can't ban them.

You talk as if all of Tumblr thinks the same. I've seen plenty of posts blasting the practice. The blogs that have autoplay tend to be geared toward fandom stuff rather than social justice stuff, anyway.

SJ Ws have a nasty tendency to infect fandoms like a virus though.

Especially Superwholocks.

Superwholock is annoying anyway