If the purge only hit child porn and porn bots we would be perfectly fine with it. But that’s not the case.
We’re upset that after years of us complaining to Staff about the bots and child porn that it took Apple removing the app from the store for them to take action.
We’re upset that many artists, both safe and not safe for work, were purged. Many of them make their livelihoods through their art.
We’re upset Staff continues to lie to us and avoid our questions. It shouldn’t be that hard to tell us the truth.
We’re upset Staff made it impossible to search for NSFW content and the subjects they’ve deemed NSFW even if our settings allow it. For example “Yaoi” is currently one such search that now shows nothing.
We’re upset that despite this all the bots are still here. Many people are saying they’re actually getting worse.
We’re upset that Staff continues to make changes to how the site functions without informing us until it’s too late.
We’re upset that we still don’t know all the details about what blogs get purged and what ones don’t. Some say any blog marked NSFW is a target, others say it only takes an external link in the bio, others say it’s only artists, others say it’s anyone.
We’re not upset they’re trying to get rid of kid porn. We’re upset they’re failing at it in every way possible!
I knew a NSFW wlw blog. Its owner was a great girl who made sure all her content was appropriately tagged and marked as NSFW, she answered all questions truthfully and helped every girl who came to her asking for advice. I didn’t follow her because she posted a lot of porn but I checked her blog once a week to see what she’s up to and, admittedly, enjoy her NSFW posts.
This girl, who was careful and appropriate, who did literallynothing wrong, got purged.
But when I look at a post, its first ten notes are still porn bots.
The very worst part about this kind of thing is that conscientious taggers are always the easiest targets.
The porn bots, who have every reason to lie and mistag and annoyingly insert themselves where they’re not wanted are harder to catch. The nice people who are a benefit to the site get hit instead.
It’s anecdotal, but I also feel the issue is getting worse. Today is the first time I saw someone posting blatant CP on a reblog. I’m extremely upset over this; even the times I was purposefully trying to find and report these people just to get them off he damn website, I never came across something so heinous.
This is why it pissed me off so much, when anger at this gets reblogged by fellow artists or, you know, the exceptionally rare person that enjoys legal pornography, is all the responses are shit like “lol get dunked on you child grooming weeaboos”
“Yes, good, this is also my baby. Put her with my other babies.”
I’ve introduced kittens to foster moms before! Some cats are so taken up with parental instinct they’ll accept a new baby instantly, but some can hiss and see the baby as an intruder that can potentially harm her kittens. When this happens, I like to to rub the new kitten with a piece of cloth that smells of the mom’s kittens, ideally whatever was being used as bedding when she gave birth. They go like “Oh! A baby I haven’t cleaned yet? Unacceptable! Hand them over”
That was the cutest addition to an already adorable post.
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