I Grew Up On This Sight. This Place Means So Much To Me. @support Please This Isn't Even About The Bots

I grew up on this sight. This place means so much to me. @support please this isn't even about the bots anymore, you just taking away self expression at this point. Retract and start over. There has to be a better way. There is always a better way.

An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

Cross my fingers & my toes.

(*Loooook at the super adorable tortoise-skele icon the wonderful @nighttimepixels made for me~.  Yep, that’s my tortoise self wearing Stretch’s hoodie.  Ahhh, I had to address that first!)

I decided for the milestone event, I’d do a fic raffle because they seem fun!  

How to Enter:  Just be following me and reblog this post!  Easy-peasy!  

The Prize: An Undertale one-shot!  Your choice of characters and AU’s.  I don’t have many limits; it can be SFW or NSFW, and I’m down with most pairings (canon/canon or canon/reader).  I do request that you not ask me to put your specific OC in the fic, however, just because I’d hate to portray them incorrectly.  Also, I’m good with most AU’s, and even if I’m unfamiliar, if there’s enough information for me to be able to get a feel for the characters’ personalities, we’re golden.  You can be as vague or detailed as you like; even if it’s something as simple as “Stretch sin.”  Or, hell, if you have something you want to see as an SSLL chapter, I’m game for that too.  

The Deadline: It’ll end at 2PM CST on 6/24.

I’ll enter everyone’s names into a random gen and pick the winners that way.  Right now, I’m hoping to draw three names.  That’s subject to change depending on how many people enter.  

Thanks again for reading my silly stuff, guys!  You’re all amazing!

Fingers Crossed

200 Follower Raffle!

I’m doing a raffle! All you got to do is be a follower and reblog this! Liking the post gets you an extra entry, but only once!

1st place: A mini fic of your choice, just give me a prompt.

2nd place: Gets a special imagines ask! It can be any character you wish even if it’s not on the characters list! (Has to be undertale related though.)

3rd place: A special letter from your favorite character!

Deadline to follow and reblog will be August 25th, 6pm CST, winners will be announced @ 7.

If this is still a thing going on can you do me & Black(SF Sans)?

So I decided that it would be fun to add various Undertale pairings into the Hunger Games simulator and see the outcome. And I need pairings. They can be self indulgent, oc x canon, or canon x canon, just specify

And multiple people can have the same character (lets say 3 people want UF Sans), just give the character a different nickname! (Red, Edge, Mustard)

I already have some off the top of my head…

So Far: 1. @im-the-ruler-here and Amber (SF Papyrus) 2. @letshaveskeletonsoffun and Blueberry (US Sans) 3. @all-that-and-a-bag-of-trash and Stretch (US Papyrus) 4. @crappyartforyou and Red (UF Sans) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

And if any of the pairings I made off the top of my head are wrong, or you’d rather a different nickname for your character, tell me so I can change it because it’s late so I probably screwed up.

(This will be closed and I will add my own ships at 1pm PST)

With & With Out Color.

Spread the word to win!

Undertale PS4 Ruins theme Giveaway!

I recently ordered the collectors edition PS4 along with the PSvita and they gave me 2 codes for the ruins theme. Since I only need one code I’m doing a giveaway for the Undertale PS4 theme! All you have to do is be a follower and Like and reblog this and you’ll get an entry to win the theme! Good luck and hope one of you will get the Chance to have an awesome Undertale theme for your PS4!

Entry for the giveaway ends 8pm CST this Sunday!