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david:

The harassing behavior we’re specifically looking to protect against is accounts who’s “sole or primary purpose” involves negatively targeting “specific members or groups within the Tumblr community”.  That is, “reblogging-david”, etc.  These were targeted for two reasons:

  • They seriously discourage the expression we’re building Tumblr to enable, and we know they can make Tumblr a shitty place for the people targeted.
  • We view them as an exploitation of our reblogging system which places accountably on the identity of the poster.  The thought being that responses get to live on your site, not mine.  So people are significantly more considerate of what they post.

We have absolutely no interest in censoring users, though we will continue to police spam and illegal content.  We’ll spend this week closely evaluating our policy changes and looking for a programmatic solution.

Actually David you’re going about this the wrong way:

  1. This is your company
  2. What they were doing is harasment
  3. You had every right under your content policy to delete those blogs and should have even if you didn’t
  4. Any blog that makes another user uncomfortable should be deleted
  5. Some of those things they said are libel
  6. In order to keep Tumblr a safe place to be you need to censor users

This post really drives home the point of what you did is the right thing.

brianvan:

In case people weren’t clear: one of them was reblogging my posts frequently with comments along the like of, “get a job”, “hey, find a job yet?” and “Maybe you should look for a job instead of blogging”, etc. I would have never taken that to heart, and obviously they were too cowardly to engage in a real discussion about my employment situation or even reveal as much as a first name. But it was very very agitating, especially since I’ve lost three steady jobs/clients in the past year due to company budget cuts on freelancers. Such comments did not “make me think”. It made me angry. That was the only intent.

Like Alfred said in The Dark Knight: “Some people just want to watch the world burn.”


Permalink ∞ | Feb 18, 2009 @ 3:12PM | Notes 120 notes
Originally posted by david, reblogged by darknessfalls

This is really upsetting

  1. dropyoureg0 reblogged this from david
  2. noosphere reblogged this from david and added:
    crap. maybe implement an a.i. reblog monitor with text parser. huffington post was...build...
  3. windhamdavid reblogged this from david
  4. vapidity4sale reblogged this from david and added:
    specific negative...tumblr community. The other purposes being my own general...
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  6. tropical-indy reblogged this from lovepuppy and added:
    i learned something new today… read this guys and read the article attached to this too
  7. shynanigans reblogged this from david and added:
    have to say this feels...awful lot like censorship. What ever happened
  8. darknessfalls reblogged this from david and added:
    Actually David you’re going about this...your company What they
  9. highlow reblogged this from david and added:
    Online communities like...Facebook should absolutely
  10. mollyknight reblogged this from david and added:
    love Tumblr, but Karp...company really made...big mistake...
  11. tactshack reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    You know, it would just be nice to have our content back. We might consider moving it to another platform, but sorting...
  12. tylercoates reblogged this from david and added:
    david (emphasis mine):...discretion of one dude, who misinterpreted
 
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