Hi tumblr, @staff & @support specifically,
Over the last year or so you’ve made some changes. (best stuff first, safe mode, banning NSFW content..) and while I’m sure you had great intentions they quite frankly suck for content creators.
My friend @dennybitte, many of my followers may know him for his beautiful vibrant landscape photography, has had far too many of his posts flagged as explicit (previously NSFW). Now, anyone who knows Denny or has seen his posts knows he follows the guidelines. He in no way, shape, or form, has ever posted anything that would be even slightly considered NSFW.
@dennybitte has been wrongly flagged as explicit and we’re trying to spread awareness of staff’s inability to determine sexual images from landscape photography. Please consider checking out his blog if you like these types of posts, you’ll be supporting a very selfless deserving photographer. If you feel like helping spread awareness feel free to reblog this, and if you have a similar story go ahead and leave it in the replies to let him know he’s not alone.
Do you see any female-presenting nipples, genitals, or sexual acts among his archive? (I’m honestly surprised that picture of a hand didn’t get flagged) I’ll spare you from posting a million screenshots, but there are at least 8 flagged posts remaining scattered throughout his archive that I can see. A few months ago when he first notified me of this problem he had around 30 flagged posts. That is absolutely ridiculous for it to be just an accidental flag. I’m not sure if his posts are being flagged maliciously or if their bot is just really that bad.
Yes he did appeal the posts, yes he has sent staff countless messages and they haven’t cared (surprising huh?) Many of his posts that he filed an appeal for are still marked, they still have the yellow banner across saying they’re being reviewed. There’s a lot of miscellaneous details I could include in this post but I don’t want to bore you. Staff replies to my messages, they quickly fix my wrongly marked posts in 24 hrs and send an automated message saying it’s been fixed. So why are they ignoring him? I tried to send a message for him and of course I only got an automated response saying “we’ll respond as soon as we’re able” it’s been 12 days. Denny sent a message (plenty of them) weeks before I did with still no response other than an automated message saying they’ve received his request..
His blog seems to be hidden from search results on both tumblr and google. His blog settings don’t show that he has selected these options. And according to this website his blog has been marked as explicit.. Apparently his avatar (a photo of himself) and his header (the same photo) are too NSFW and need to be blurred as well. Now I don’t know how accurate this website is, my blog as well as many of my mutuals show up as SFW.
Denny has been on here for years and has built quite the following which encourages him to continue to go out and take these pictures. When his posts are being hidden and are constantly being mismarked it takes away that drive to continue sharing his passion. This is the only platform he’s been actively posting on for the last 6 years and to have all of that lost because of a mistake on tumblr’s part is really shitty. He’s one of the most selfless, appreciative, and kind people I’ve (n)ever met and it really hurts my heart that @support isn’t helping him out. I don’t know what else do to besides spread awareness and try to help get his posts seen again.
I know I am just one out of thousands, tens of thousands - whatever giant number, complaining about this change, and I’m positive he’s not the only one in this situation. But if I’m able to help out a friend, I’m going to speak up and do so.
If you enjoy the types of posts I post, I highly encourage you to check out Denny’s blog. Everything he posts is his own, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing his photography adventures behind the scenes. Talking to him through very early bike rides to catch the sunrise or exploring different countries. I’ve seen the countless hours behind his editing process. Many of you just see a cool picture and hit reblog and think nothing more of it. There is so much more that goes into it as many of you in this photography community on here are well aware of.
This is very long, I know, I’m sorry. I’m just trying to help out a friend and get his blog the attention it deserves.
@staff @support Please hire some more help, preferably humans with common sense. And please, for the love of god, reply to people’s messages when they write to you with actual concerns.
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