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Originally Posted by deltav
Dude, chill with the righteous indignation! The OP didn't even really complain about it much, and it's useful to hear about for the rest of us who have Tumblr blogs.
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It's spammers who are unbelievable self-righteous. "I deliberately violated the terms and conditions I agreed to and that I knew all about when I signed up and they TOS'd me. Instead of accepting that I finally got caught, I'll whine about how they suck and how I was just trying to help them and how many problems they caused."
And if Tumblr didn't do this what do you think would happen? Of course it would be spammed to oblivion and there'd be no more users to exploit. Porn has been shitting in everyone else's back yard since the days of Usenet.
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Far as marketing goes, it's just not as simple as you make it out to be anymore. These services are "free" yes, but also a substantial portion of the content shared on them is copyrighted material posted by users without the original owners' permission. Call it piracy if you want (tho that's becoming an outdated term in the current environment). If users just posted "officially released" content many of these services would probably not exist. So in many cases these services are indirectly profiting illicitly off our material in a way to begin with.
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Maybe they are, in which case the copyright holders should have their shit removed; it's a different and non-relevant issue. Nobody here is spamming Tumblr in order to stick it to them for pirated material; they're doing it to make a quick buck. Hell, I bet most of the blogs people here are spamming to Tumblr are wall-to-wall infringing material.
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Also, you can market your product and still provide "added value". Again, my vintage blog often links back to my main site, but I've gotten nothing but extremely positive feedback from other users & followers, people will go out of their way to comment how much they enjoy the posts. Also as stated repeatedly, Google has started given services like these massive priority over privately owned domains & blogs.
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It's up to Tumblr to decide what adds value to their service; and maybe they'd consider yours okay, who knows. But just ask yourself this: would you have a Tumblr blog if you weren't trying to make a buck from it? If the answer is no, then your interest in adding value to Tumblr is zero.
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If there was an option to register as a "content producer" for a reasonable monthly fee on Tumblr and be able to post without worrying about getting canned, I'd consider it as probably would others. As it stands, the current new ad system they have is definitely unwelcome by users and *not* considered to be "adding value" by the majority.
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Again, that's a decision for Tumblr. Instead of being grateful they don't rule out adult material completely, like many services do, you complain that they don't cater more fully to porn sites. Unreal.
It ain't a porn site.
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Originally Posted by rogueteens
and you can build your empire on images stolen from elsewhere, just like tumblr  |
