The Tumblr Porn Crackdown Is Here
 

In the middle of Yahoo's Tumblr takeover, the blogging service's dedicated users were terrified that the corporate stiffs would insert ads into their dashboard and place restrictions on the massive amounts of porn posted every day. Well, all inevitable things will come to pass, and today is porn's day.

Oh, did the users screech and holler when Marissa Mayer's purple people-eater bought Tumblr for $1 billion about how she was going to take away their nudie pictures forever. Ads were swiftly thrown into the Tumblr dashboard and now, a few months later, the crackdown on Tumblr porn has begun. "Tumblr welcomes free expression, but we have to be sensitive to the millions of readers and bloggers from different locations, cultures, and backgrounds with different points of view concerning mature/adult-oriented NSFW content," the Tumblr team says on a page explaining the new guidelines that appeared today. "There are a lot of people in our community who would rather not see adult-oriented stuff and could even get in trouble if they did!"

There are now two different classifications for blogs containing boobs and butts:

NSFW blogs contain occasional nudity or mature/adult-oriented content.
Adult blogs contain substantial nudity or mature/adult-oriented content.

The new system is easy enough to understand. If your blog is the all-butts-all-the-time type, then you fall under the "adult" label. If you post some penis every once in a while in between your steady diet of One Direction GIFS, then you fall under the "NSFW" label.

But nudie pictures will be almost impossible to find unless you already have a well-curated RSS feed or bookmark folder of Tumblr porn from now on. NSFW and adult content won't appear in search engine results (like Google or Yahoo or Bing) or Tumblr's tracked-tag searches. These are the new, very strict guidelines for naked picture posts:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/stati...01.38%20PM.png

Tumblr CEO David Karp was asked about the potential porn restrictions on The Colbert Report just last night. "We've taken a pretty hard line on freedom of speech, supporting our users, creation, whatever that looks like, it's just not something we want to police," he told Colbert. "When you have somebody like Terry Richardson, or any number of talented photographers, posting tasteful photography, I don't want to have to go in there and draw the line between this photo and this behind the scenes photo of Lady Gaga and her, uh, her nip." And while he's technically honest here: Tumblr is not necessarily policing what gets posted; they are certainly restricting users' ability to blog butts.

This is like when your parents ground you and won't let you leave the house for dressing a certain way. These blogs aren't allowed to play with the rest of the Internet until, in this case, they put on some damn pants.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/techn...wn-here/67300/

So, adult blogs no longer indexed and don't appear in hashtag searches. Seems like a pretty big step for tumblr to make. What do you guys make of it?

I think this has been the case for about a month now unless I'm missing something. Basically if your blog gets marked as "adult" it's game over for traffic generation from Tumblr other than what followers you can get by other means or already have. If you get flagged NSFW it's not so bad but still not like it was before because you will be less visible.

This has been happening since May, they have been excluding adult blogs from the sites robots.txt, to also stop search engines from indexing it.

It might be worth noting that Yahoo! did the same thing with their Yahoo Groups years ago too. Any adult group is completely invisible to search engines. It seems to be their little trademark.

I still have a main Tumblr blog definitely labeled as "Adult" and still appearing in Google searches. I wonder if they haven't applied this across the board yet?

tis a shame that the 1st amendment only protects speech from government infringement. who coulda foreseen it would be corporations that took it away instead.

:(

I think they were doing it way before yahoo bought it.

Thou Shalt Not Search Adult Tumblr Blogs
http://www.erosblog.com/2013/05/15/n...tumblr-search/

:Oh crap

Fuck 'em, and fuck their kosher #nsfw crap.

Surfers still want actual porn, despite the sanitized conditioning of #nsfw . In a funny way they're making porn exciting again by marginalizing it so much.

keep up the good work tumblr!

FUCK worthless bottom feeding freeloading parasites!

Here's an alternative to tumblr.

It's pretty much the same thing
http://www.soup.io/

If anyone runs a lot of Tumblr blogs and wants to keep track of them incase they get deleted, I have created a tool that will monitor them for deletion for you. http://www.mftscripts.com/tools/servmonitr

Question:
If a blog is flagged as adult, it won't be visible to logged out users?

look at the table they have here: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw

Can someone clear this up?

No, "NSFW" blogs are still indexed by search engines. It says so in the TOS and that table you posted yourself (I should correctly my earlier post by saying my main blog is "NSFW" not "Adult").

Far as I know these policies have been in place for months, well before the Yahoo acquisition.

But really what's the big deal? This has always and will always happen with any service that you don't host yourself. There may be benefits associated with these networks that you can't replicate with your own sites, but the risk that your stuff will be taken down or otherwise restricted will always exist and has to be factored in. It's a private service you're using for free, so most indignance is misplaced.

Ok, but what about "adult" blogs (not nsfw).
It looks like they're saying that if your blog is pure adult it will not be visible to non logged in users. Hence, not indexed by search engines.

Nice try, Tumblr NSFW blog tagging team.

Quoted from the linked article.

If this statement is true then it appears that both NSFW and ADULT tumblrs will not be indexed by search engines in the near future.

:2 cents:

its old news

indeed...

Are you saying don't use it ?

Exactly. :thumbsup

What are you talking about?

is the adult industry unable to create a popular mainstream stuff that allows adult too ?

It's a joke. Used a lot of reddit.

Examples:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co...52de?context=2

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comment...am_but/c8quae6

Full disclosure: I have no evidence at all to lead me to believe that the program linked is any way likely to increase your chances of being tagged as NSFW/adult. I apologize for not making it clear that I was just joking. :)

Tumblr already tags your accounts as NSFW... This is to monitor it incase you run many blogs and don't want to check them every day to see if one is deleted. You can just look at the dashboard and it'll tell you.

https://www.tumblr.com/ seems like a more mainstream site rather than sex site. You say Tumblr was bought for $1 billion. What a large price...

Did anybody else see the founder on Colbert this week and his comment about porn?

Less blogs the better, there rarely built with the surfers needs instead there built with the all mighty dollar

Beyond being disturbed that I found him attractive, he at least said the right things. How much influence he actually has now is another matter.

great news for complete idiots like me who have no grasp of how to use tumblr :thumbsup