Fat people are already routinely banned from Instagram and YouTube for being explicitly fat. Not gonna be surprised when Tumblr joins the club in policing fat flesh as necessarily sexual where thin flesh wouldn’t be. 😒
At the risk of hindering coordination efforts, Pillowfort sounds inadequate to me.
“All reblogs of a post will also be deleted when the original post is deleted by the user”
“While the specifics of what constitutes a bannable offense are complex and covered in our ToS, we can generally say that threatening another user, encouraging suicide, etc. will be grounds for account termination, as will promoting the ideologies of violent hate groups such as Nazism.”
“We will also try to come up with a way to lower the barrier to entry for new users, though we don’t want to drop the entry fee entirely because a) we feel that would be unfair to our users who have paid for their registration keys and b) we don’t think our servers could handle a massive influx of new users right now, so we’re going to try to allow as many new users as we can without capsizing the boat.”
Hmm, deletes cascading to reblogs does have a bunch of advantages – less possibility of a post getting out of hand and potentially leading to harassment years down the line, better control over your own content. People who want to add a lot or debate will just need to link to the post in question/quote passages. Or am I missing something?
The suicide thing seems iffy, but I’m willing to wait and see how it’s actually handled. Banning Nazis is good.
Also a sign-up fee is annoying but hopefully will keep the pornbots at bay.
My issue with the sign-up fee isn’t that I have to pay it, it’s that it will limit the site’s user base to only those that are willing and able to pay.
Also, while most social media sites will have enough information to track down their users in theory, in practice the paper trail from a sign-up fee is significantly more direct.
((Also leaves pillowfort as susceptible to outside pressure : it’s not like PayPal has hesitated to cut off people where even a small amount of the money involved adult content.))
Chained deletes have good motivations, but I’ve not been especially impressed by their implementation on other sites. The entry fee might keep pillowfort’s userbase better than Twitter’s, but Twitter pretty rapidly adapted such that there is a norm to screencap if there’s any reason to expect a tweet will be deleted.
looks kind of terrible
the old mantra about how tumblr is both uniquely terrible and yet, somehow, still the hands down best social media platform out there continues to hold true even in our time of need
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