Re:Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everyt...
by gmmeyer on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:39PM
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Last time Tumblr broke out the numbers porn was 11% of the biggest blogs. More than 1 out of 10 blogs is a porn blog. That's a huge portion of their user base and will likely cause it to totally crash.
Re:Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everyt...
by thetricia on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:42PM
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As long as the overlap with regular users is small there's no reason for why that would cascade [0].
That kind of content is usually banned/censored on most mainstream services, just letting it be will get you a non-insignificant number. I've seen people claim 3% for twitter, no clue if true or not, but few would say that about Twitter here. Too many people in tech are in the core user-base to fall for this.
[0] unless shut down this will be a loooong slow death no matter what happens. I still have a semi popular account on one of the dead sites of the era. Everybody knows it's dead but these communities are a bit like families, hard to completely ghost them.
The adult content that showed up was pretty annoying, especially on some tags that were seemingly less censored. Like, most LGBT tags were clean, but some would have a lot for whatever reason. I'd welcome the change back then (which was around acquisition time). But even then it was apparent Tumblr's odds of becoming anything other than another diary/blog graveyard weren't great.
Tumblr occasionally banning thinspo blogs was probably much more of an "attack" on the core user base. Not by numbers but in spirit.
edit: and for the record I'm not especially talking about parent's comment, not sure why i picked this one, mostly agree with it