You know the worst part about what @staff is doing? They could have done something about NSFW content ages ago. They chose not to. All they had to do was have everyone put in their birthday when they sign up, like most social media sites, and just…….let only 18+ blogs be explicit and make sure they’re no longer able to communicate with 17 and under blogs. It’s that easy.
People have been reporting the cp issue for a long ass time and they STILL chose to ignore the issue. They did probably check THAT post that was reported but that’s it. The blogs with cp stayed running. They never checked their system to see if it was on THEM that cp got past. They just let it slide until Apple stepped up and took the app off the store.
They have a no tolerance policy for hate speech but nazis are still running around, spreading their hate speech. People report them all the fucking time and Tumblr STILL refuses to do anything about it. Even with this new update, nazis are still having a blast all over this site. But staff is flagging pictures of puppies, something harmless.
Tumblr blocks IP addresses of anonymous asks if you choose to block them. They CAN see the person who sent the ask that got them blocked. They can see that it was likely hate. But, they choose not to do anything. Anonymous hate is popular on here and Tumblr DOES have the ability to put a stop to it to make sure their users are safe and “positive” but they refuse to do anything about it.
Tumblr lets sexual harassment slide by. Other Tumblr users send their nudes to innocent people (possibly children since Tumblr doens’t verify ages) and refuse to stop but if you report them for harassing you, Tumblr will take 9 months to respond and they respond with something like “email here”. They CAN fix that issue by blocking that IP address from the person they’re harassing but they choose to ignore emails. Users can block people but if who they’re trying to block has more than 1 blog, Tumblr is the only one who can help but they don’t.
Tumblr has ALWAYS had this ability to change and make this “more positive” but they chose and are still choosing not to. They’re only choosing to do something now because they’re afraid of legal charges and losing money, not because of their users.
