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Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#1 Old 3rd Dec 2018 at 10:01 PM
Default Tumblr's Imminent Implosion
Hey yall, so some of you may be aware that starting Dec 17th, tumblr is banning all adult content. But unfortunately, the bot they're using to do it is malfunctioning and is flagging SFW things as adult. Which sadly means some sims cc. Most notably, tumblr user sssvitlans had this to say (translated from Russian),

"Thanks Tumblr - I am now free from this heavy load - the Lana CC Finds blog . Since December 17, 2018, my blog will no longer exist anyway. The fact is that the blog Lana CC Finds since August 2017 has been marked as “for adults” (NSFW). I wrote Tumblr support requests to review and remove this status of the NSFW blog. It has been 1, 5 years, but nothing has changed.

Thanks to all my followers and those who have been with me for all these almost 5 years. We were very, very much, even more people came to the blog to view the SS for all Sims 2, 3 and 4 games."

So to everyone with a tumblr, and to everyone who follows creators with tumblrs, make sure you have a backup of your content!!!
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Forum Resident
#2 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 12:08 AM
so can't get lana cc for sims 4 in 2 weeks. Have too backup what I can then
*shrugs*
retired moderator
#3 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 12:12 AM
According to this, it sounds like Sim content might be safe?
Quote:
What is "adult content?"
Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content–including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations–that depicts sex acts.

What is still permitted?
Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery. Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.


The "primarily includes" is the key. Since written content is permissible, perhaps just turn your porn into ASCII art?

In the meantime, what would be the best Tumblr-alternatives? Someone should make some illustrations depicting the Tumblr logo performing sexual acts.

I don't mind if you call me "MSD" or something for short.
Tumblr
Perhaps someday I'll have leisure time back...
Lab Assistant
Original Poster
#4 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 12:25 AM
Quote: Originally posted by maybesomethingdunno
According to this, it sounds like Sim content might be safe?


The "primarily includes" is the key. Since written content is permissible, perhaps just turn your porn into ASCII art?

In the meantime, what would be the best Tumblr-alternatives? Someone should make some illustrations depicting the Tumblr logo performing sexual acts.


A lot of people have been moving to dreamwidth because of it, and while sims content might be safe, posts are already being hidden/deleted by the tumblr bots so I'd still take precautions anyway.

Edit: Here is an article on how to export your tumblr into a zip file to save everything you've posted.
Scholar
#5 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 1:33 AM
Quote: Originally posted by maybesomethingdunno
According to this, it sounds like Sim content might be safe?


The "primarily includes" is the key. Since written content is permissible, perhaps just turn your porn into ASCII art?

In the meantime, what would be the best Tumblr-alternatives? Someone should make some illustrations depicting the Tumblr logo performing sexual acts.


The problem are not their new terms of use, but their bots that sniff out and mark pictures. So far I had the following content censored, because it got mistaken for something inappropriate:
- Four sims standing in a row, one of them carrying a plate of fruitcake
- A sim washing his hand in a sink (oh, that tempting erected faucet!)
- A group of sims sitting on a bed with a dinosaur plushie in the background. (With a dirty imagination you could think the plushie sits intimately in one sim's lap)
- A naked android sim (no genitals, no nipples)
- Four sims standing under a tree, talking. My imagination isn't dirty enough enough to decipher the problem in that one. But I'd kinda like to know.
- To add insult to injury my "A day at a beach" where a couple really gets it on in the sand (among other activities) was not deemed problematic.

Another user had a sand dune censored.
*shrugs*
retired moderator
#6 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 2:37 AM
Well, to be fair, fruitcake is somewhat obscene.

So if you have something flagged, where does the notification show up?

I don't mind if you call me "MSD" or something for short.
Tumblr
Perhaps someday I'll have leisure time back...
Forum Resident
#7 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 3:00 AM Last edited by Pary : 5th Dec 2018 at 2:46 AM.
I had a picture of a rock in Al Simhara get flagged as explicit.

Here is the offending picture, please avert your eyes if you're easily offended by rock nudity


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Instructor
#8 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 4:31 AM
Quote: Originally posted by maybesomethingdunno
Well, to be fair, fruitcake is somewhat obscene.

So if you have something flagged, where does the notification show up?


So far the only way I've seen if my post were flagged is by checking each post. You can't see it if you're looking at the blog itself but if you check on the dashboard, you can see a headline.
Test Subject
#9 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 6:47 AM
My most recent flagged reblog is a screenshot of a painting of jesus. Yes, jesus has female-presenting nipples, apparently.
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#10 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 7:04 AM
I hope you are flooding the powers that be at Tumblr with all these explicit rocks and fruit cakes until they throw their hands up and run screaming and jump into a ladderless pool. Or you know, be a pain in their sides so they get up off their butt and fix it.

@maybesomethingdunno I like the string of lights you added.

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Forum Resident
#11 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 9:18 AM
May as well back everything up. The majority of Tumblr is NSFW content, and the site is unlikely to exist for much longer once it's gone.
dodgy builder
#12 Old 4th Dec 2018 at 9:58 AM
Quote: Originally posted by vampiresam9097
dreamwidth


I hate the look of that site, it reminds me of Reddit. I'm not moving there that's for sure.
Scholar
#13 Old 5th Dec 2018 at 1:11 AM
This is such a dumpster fire. Staff waited until Apple called them out on their horrible management of the site and now they're rushing to save what few dollars they have left and this is their big solution. So much trash but also glorious treasure is about to be wiped out.
*shrugs*
retired moderator
#14 Old 5th Dec 2018 at 1:56 AM
Thanks @joandsarah77 :D

Ultimately, it's money motivated, so I'm not getting my hopes up that our snide and snark will help much.

I don't mind if you call me "MSD" or something for short.
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Perhaps someday I'll have leisure time back...
Forum Resident
#15 Old 5th Dec 2018 at 12:48 PM
Quote: Originally posted by pretenshus
This is such a dumpster fire. Staff waited until Apple called them out on their horrible management of the site and now they're rushing to save what few dollars they have left and this is their big solution. So much trash but also glorious treasure is about to be wiped out.
It's really beyond stupid because they lose so many of their loyal users but won't gain many new ones. I remember when artists who live from commissions had their whole blogs deleted a week ago because it contained graphic fanart. And afaik it started because there was child porn found on Tumblr in plain sight, so instead of taking care of the actual problematic content (which has been reported numerous times just like the thousands of porn bots) they decide to ban all NSFW content. And then their algorithm constantly flags completely normal things while Nazi content and harassing content still remains untouched ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can't even wrap my head around that stupidity. They really chose to walk down the worst path.

On topic - Really sad to see Lana go. I only paid attention to a handful of Simblrs, but that was definitely my favorite one because it always seemed up to date (one of the first sites where I found pet houses for TS4), had good tags and was easy to look through
Lab Assistant
#16 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 2:07 AM
Damn! Just started getting into and finding cool stuff on Tumbler. Bye, bye, I guess. Can anyone use common sense anymore?
Mad Poster
#17 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 6:18 AM
These sites all fuck themselves up, it's inevitable. YouTube keeps trying, too, but so far it's proven too big to fail. In the meantime, try on Imgur for a bit of fun. Basically anything's allowed and it's a fairly bullshit-free platform.

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dodgy builder
#18 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 8:44 AM
Quote: Originally posted by GrijzePilion
These sites all fuck themselves up, it's inevitable. YouTube keeps trying, too, but so far it's proven too big to fail. In the meantime, try on Imgur for a bit of fun. Basically anything's allowed and it's a fairly bullshit-free platform.


Imgur for socials? They won't able to keep the offending pictures when people start using it more and I'm not really interested in moving around like a gypsy. Not my thing, I'm way too lazy.
Inventor
#20 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 9:14 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Pary
I had a picture of a rock in Al Simhara get flagged as explicit.

Here is the offending picture, please avert your eyes if you're easily offended by rock nudity



What are you talking about? That's obviously a naked dude in a hot tub about to play with himself.

SEE...



No wonder Tumblr wanted your filth out of their platform. Seriously, Pary. How could you? I thought you were better than that...
Mad Poster
#21 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 9:37 PM
OH MY GOD. Mods!

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Forum Resident
#22 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 11:55 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Naus Allien
What are you talking about? That's obviously a naked dude in a hot tub about to play with himself.

SEE...

[snip]

No wonder Tumblr wanted your filth out of their platform. Seriously, Pary. How could you? I thought you were better than that...


*hangs head in shame*
I'm sorry ! I thought it was .. artistic!




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Theorist
#23 Old 7th Dec 2018 at 1:12 AM
Test Subject
#24 Old 7th Dec 2018 at 7:35 PM Last edited by demonic corndog : 8th Dec 2018 at 1:39 PM.
I don't play the sims 4, but I was looking for a thread related to this. For the last hour or so I've been using the wayback machine/web archive to preserve her tumblr. So far it's been a slow processes and I'm not sure if I can get it done by myself on time, so if anybody would like to pitch in and help, it would be nice.

I've been going thru all the categorized pages so far, not the "main" page, and have only be doing sims 3 content since thats what I play, but you guys could start work on the sims 4 content. The more people working on the the faster it could be done and the more could be saved.

It would be nice to have it all saved as at least a reference catalog for future use.

Edit: more information on the site here https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/a...Wayback-Machine

Edit 2: made a post with a bunch more info and updates here
Top Secret Researcher
#25 Old 7th Dec 2018 at 11:27 PM
Tumblr... I like watching stupid people flush their livelihood down the toilet because I don't feel so unique when that happens.

Sims are better than us.
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