I wouldn't be shocked if Twitter starts restricting things as well. All the social media sites are in the crosshairs from regulatory agencies, and adult content is a soft target to attack for the purpose of getting the public on the side of regulation.
I've already seen the evidence of panic mode coming from camgirls, who all but depend on those platforms to direct fans as they move from site to site.
Pretty sure advertisers turned the screws on tumblr. When most of your traffic is porn... are you not a porn site? That's what advertisers were asking themselves and they forced tumblr to clear things up for them.
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.
It is interesting that they are not banning erotica. There premise must be that most people don't read and therefore no one will complain.
There's been some interesting suggestions and posts on this.
One thing we could quite easily incorporate, would be an image wall (in addition to the current image gallery profile section). I agree, the forums aren't the right place for hundreds of thousands of images to be posted.
Would there be much of a demand for it here though I wonder? The fact we've had close to 400,000 images posted, on what is fundamentally a story site, shows that there is.
I'll let this percolate for a while and see what Gav says concerning the technicalities.
I totally get what you are saying MJ.
The thing is though, the decision has been made and I am 99.99% sure it will be final.
Apple decided to turf the Tumblr APP out of their store, and with it, a huge chunk of their revenue.
A large percentage of their advertisers are now aware that there are sections of that site, which are harbouring not only NSFW, but illegal content. That's a huge no-no for them (as it should be).
So Tumblr basically have no choice in the matter, or they will likely go under.
This is part of why I keep my Lush stuff on Lush. Mainstream social networks are getting tougher and tougher on adult content so I'd rather not deal with problems from posting my Lush content, even links to it, elsewhere. Even the board where I admin has a fairly strict "no NSFW" policy that I wrote (yes, I did) and that I observe religiously. I've linked some of my SS content there but never any Lush content. I don't even talk about this place other than vague allusions to "on another site."
That said, I also had the thought that there must be some way this can be turned into an opportunity for Lush and I'm glad to see I was not alone in that.
