07-19-2013, 10:16 PM
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Great article on Techcrunch about this. It's not your usual BS article. They lay it all out and also call Tumblr on the bullshit claim that it was a bug. Definitely read it if you have any Tumblr blogs. I can't post the whole thing as it's way too long and the quotes don't do it justice.
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What we can tell you is that in subsequent tests (read: more porn searches on Tumblr), it appears that finding adult-themed blog posts with Safe Mode shut off, works (i.e., a tag search). But finding adult-themed blogs (a blog search) is an issue. For the latter, searches for very obvious keywords only return a couple of blog results, though there are plenty of tagged posts returned for that same search.
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It?s an odd way to explain the situation, as not only is it unclear what happened, it implies that Tumblr itself is not sure what happened either (?..but for some reason??, the post reads).
Could it be, perhaps, that the ?some reason? was a policy change that Tumblr had hoped would fly under the radar, but did not?
The company concludes its lengthy mea culpa by saying that beyond the fixes listed above (one being the NSFW option dropping the Adult flag, and the second being the bug fix related to searches for Adult and NSFW content on Tumblr not returning results), nothing else has changed recently.
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Curious about that claim, we took a look at Tumblr?s ?NSFW? policy page in the Internet Archive?s Way Back Machine, and found that, actually, the page has been consistently updated throughout the year. The fact that Tumblr took the time to rewrite or explain its policies in more detail here seems to contradict the shrug-of-the-shoulders tone of today?s blog post which tries to play off everything that was changed as either bugs or confusing features that needed to be fixed.
Here?s what we found on the Way Back Machine.
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Tumblr?s explanations today are confusing at worst, and misleading at best. Tumblr claimed nothing had changed recently, but the company?s NSFW/Adult policies have been in a constant state of flux, and the service is clearly struggling with how it needs to handle the problem of commercial porn spam.
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/19/in-...olicy-kind-of/
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