I have been mulling this over for the past few weeks. Would my followers be interest in a Thursday themed submission day. Men and woman submit photos of you dressed/undressed to thrill? Dress in anything which makes you feel sexy.
Now me? I’m a NSFW blog. I occasionally reblog raunchy fanart and pretty pictures of scantily clad hot people. This means that:
If people are browsing in Safe Mode (which is the default, CHEERS TUMBLR) and are not following me they will see nothing of mine in the search or tags.
Let me be clear: NOTHING OF MINE.
My whole blog is flagged as NSFW even though I mostly reblog stupid comics of tv characters failing to use stairs. So for every one NSFW post I have that these Safe Mode users don’t want to see, they’ll miss the nine other posts I make about werewolves in pink knitted sweaters.
Pretty shit huh? Oh wait, bro, it gets better.
That’s blogs flagged NSFW. Blogs flagged Adult have it INFINITELY shittier.
Porn-intensive blogs have ZERO visibility beyond the dash. Unless a user is following them,they are invisible. Even reblogs are tetchy because with the new restrictions, anyone reblogging NSFW content runs the risk of being flagged as NSFW themselves and thus might not take the risk.
So porn blogs: crippled, basically. No dicks and o-faces for you, tumblr users. But how’s this for another, infinitely more terrifying, approach: all those sex-ed blogs? All those beautiful how-to-masturbation, body-positive and sex-positive blogs? Under the current definitions:
You guessed it: they’re Adult. If they’re not flagged as such by the blog owners themselves, tumblr can do it for you:
“If you’re not sure how you should flag your blog you can leave it unflagged, but keep in mind that it may be flagged automatically.” (x)
So there you have it.
Fuck. Basically. Everything.
PS: Anyone wanting to turn Safe Mode off (because hey, if you haven’t checked yours yet, it’s totally on! YAY!):
Hit your settings icon
In the left hand menu hit Dashboard
And uncheck the “browse tag pages in safe mode”
It’s nowhere near a complete solution, but it’s as much as we’ve got right now.
* Or I’m assuming you’ll be able to? This feature is greyed out for me atm. A+ rollout of functionality there, tumblr.
i checked, and it does NOT have me automatically in safe mode. and i don’t remember ever unchecking it?
I have thought something was wrong when I couldn’t find anything in the search results… I have disabled safe mode long ago.. but ever since the ‘cookie’ rule from EU and the following update from Tumblr everything has turned sour.. I can’t find anything anymore. I can’t find a fix..
This must be why their search results have changed from no longer having that option to turn on and off 18+ content blogs 🤔🤔🤔
nothing with nsfw/ nsfw related tags show up on the search
EVEN if you have safe search off
how are we supposed to find anything, why does tumblr allow us to post nsfw and adult content if its not gonna reach anyone
Wow. What a bunch of shit this is Tumblr. Thanks for nothing.
Three cheers for censorship🖕🖕🖕
They don’t have any real choice. Blame shitty governments that hold tumblr responsible for Obscene Content. (Which depending on the government can mean “Anything with gay people in it” or “Anything kinky” or “Photos of naked statues”). I’m worried about being flagged myself for occasionally posting useful information about sex and reproductive biology.
Multiple times? And you’re just now getting around to thinking in terms of punishment? OK, so, if the behavior continues going forward (and in the absence of any meaningful consequences so far, I suspect it will) :
First offense: lines. Lots of them.
Second offense: corner time to reflect on something you’re going to tell them before sending them to the corner. And what you’re going to tell them is this: “The next time this happens, I’m going to release you. I am not joking. It is clear that you have no respect for my rules and no respect for me. I won’t be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t respect me. No more second chances. This behavior ends now.”
Third offense: “You’re released.” And you get on with your life.
Hey anon! I’m going to make a couple of assumptions and suggestions here:
First, if you’re only just now thinking about punishments for this infraction, either this rule doesn’t really mean that much to you, or you’ve tried other punishments and they haven’t worked. Because we don’t have that information, let’s address both.
If the rule doesn’t mean that much to you, why have it? If it’s because it’s part of the dress code, screw the dress code. Cookie cutter rules are great for cookies, but you sound like you might be humans. Also, is this a rule that’s going to work for her? Did you talk about it and explain why it’s important? Did you earn her buy-in?
Let’s assume that you’ve already tried other punishments. Which ones? Did you spank her? That could be a part of the problem right there: the whole thing might be foreplay for her, or a way to get the spanking she wants. If you tried non-impact punishments like lines or corner time and that still didn’t work, maybe there’s other areas where you need to tighten the leash in order for her to feel your presence.
Any rule is only worth what you put into enforcing it, and what your sub puts into following it. If it’s a must have for you, then you need to have a serious conversation with her. If it’s just something you do because that’s what people do? Chuck it and stick to the ones that matter to you.
Actually, may I please say something?
If it was one of those things where she asked, and you never answered, you might wanna make it clear that just because she asked, doesn’t mean she’s allowed to play without a firm yes from you. If that’s the route you want to go down, and if that’s a situation that happened.
Cause, ya know… Loopholes and us not knowing the full story.
Right, which is why I often harp on having a set of “sensible defaults” in place …
“If you send me a list of panties to select from and I don’t respond in 15 minutes, commando is the default.”
“If you send me a request for an orgasm and I don’t respond in 30 minutes, ‘permission denied’ is the default.”
It requires a bit of thinking about the rules one has put in place, but it saves one’s sub a hell of a lot of anxiety and you can rest knowing you’ve plugged up any potential for loopholes etc.
Worth a reblog to educate others regarding the importance of communication, rules, respect and proper corrective punishment
Sharp Dressed Dom 