Tumblr CEO David Karp responds to complaints about NSFW censorship.
 

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/5590655...of-you-who-are

thanks for sharing chillvault

I have a somewhat popular babe blog at tumblr, its a nsfw, has always been a nsfw, they changed it to an adult flag two weeks ago and this is my new search result on google

A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt ? learn more.

In the article Karp explained that it was a bug and it has been fixed today. Keep an eye on it and see what happens.

I think all the bad publicity over it being censorship made them reconsider. It was definitely not a bug from what I understand regardless of what anyone at Tumblr is saying. They knew what they were doing. For a time any blog which got flagged as "ADULT" (not just NSFW) had an entry in subdomain,tumblr.com/robots.txt which prevented search engines from indexing the blog.

It was shown on this page:

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw

And the little chart there clearly showed that ADULT (not just NSFW) blogs would not get indexed by search engines.

But now it looks like they are changing something as this appears at the top of it:

"This Page is out of date and is in the process of being updated."

I guess maybe I'm not quite clear on what they are really going to do and I could be missing something but the above is definitely true. It will be great if they are really going to stop putting all adult blogs (not NSFW) as disallowed in robots.txt.

Over saturation of shitty or "spammy" advertising done by people who don't know how to be discreet, it ruins it for the rest of us.

But I've never used Tumblr so not my world, not my problem (thank all mighty black Jewsus).

I'm wondering what this one was about as well:

I noticed things like this and am now wondering if it is all really is fixed as he says. There was definitely some funkiness going on with searching where some nsfw and adult blogs weren't searchable even for people with safe mode off.

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.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/19/in-...olicy-kind-of/

Bug or not, clearly they're listening to their users at least. More than pornographers are bitching about their almost ban on porn, it's huge on their site whether they are trying to make a buck from it or are just sharing their favorite porn. Kudos to them for listening instead of ignoring.

Exactly. Automate and shit it all over tumblr with hope someone will buy something. In the longer run it fails.

This 100%. Most companies would just wipe it out, prohibit it, and call it good. Tumblr is actually listening to their members and having a dialogue of sorts, trying to find a compromise that everyone can live with. I'm impressed.

This IMO has been the story of most adult marketing the past decade-plus, and yeah - in the long run the industry hurts itself as a result.

You get what you pay for !
Was all your efforts worth it ?

I still don't see a change in robots.txt

Sitemap: http://********.tumblr.com/sitemap1.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private
Disallow: /random
Disallow: /day
Crawl-delay: 1

is what I see on my robots.txt

Tumblr my my my

That means you (or more accurately bots) aren't being blocked. Was it different for you a week ago?

99 bucks for a plug-in that cross-posts from hundreds of my blogs to tumblr blogs and hundreds in additional sales with a big traffic boost to some of my blogs, so yea, it was worth it, just hate to see it end

I see the robots.txt is back to normal, however many pages have been delisted in Google and it's strange that more and more are being removed from the search engine.