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I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.

dillonmckay 8y ago
But what percentage of traffic do they generate?
duxup 8y ago
Yeah I wonder if there is a big difference from "yeah there's a lot of porn here" to "yeah it's a porn site now" as far as the users who aren't doing that thing goes. There's a lot of porn on reddit, but I don't think twice about saying I post there. But if it was owned by a porn site I might think twice about how I define the site / mention it.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y ago
  You're making a tremendous jump in thinking that the average user (or even most users!) of a site knows who owns it.
  - duxup 8y ago
    I think a high profile purchase would make it more likely than not, particularly as it pertains to porn.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 8y ago
      Again, I think that unlikely. Even I have to think hard to remember who owns e.g., Reddit. And I'm the site multiple times a day.
      - duxup 8y ago
        Probably because it isn't pornhub, you'd remember that.
jplayer01 8y ago
Pornhub is probably the best party able to refocus Tumblr on mostly porn. I feel there are plenty of people who are interested in the kind of kink communities that grew organically on Tumblr, but felt Tumblr as a platform wasn't appropriate. Maybe Pornhub can give Tumblr the love and direction it needs to fill the kind of niche that Pornhub.com itself can't, and that might draw a much larger audience than before.
CM30 8y ago
Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. So if they allow it again, then so long as they don't promote these blogs to users who don't care for them, no one's gonna be bothered. It's like Reddit; yes it allows adult content, but since you're not forced to view subreddits that allow it, no one cares.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. "Someone, somewhere is thinking thoughts I don't approve of!"
asdff 8y ago
Is it so hard to just put up an optional explicit content filter? I don't know why it has to be all or nothing when you can just serve the "Yes I am 18 and agree to see adult content" popup that's been around for decades now. Reddit seems to be doing OK with that system.
80386 8y ago
Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban? And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd leave for it - but the only real alternative is Twitter, which combines all the worst aspects of LinkedIn, Instagram, and 4chan. Who knows! Maybe anyone will use Dreamwidth ever. But I think Tumblr's lack of distinction between top-level posts and comments is a good feature - there were a few blogs, back when blogs were a thing, that I mostly read because they had a few good commenters. The problem is that it enables a lot of abuse, but stricter moderation and better features could prevent this - Tumblr wasn't designed for text at all, and it really shows. (You could edit anyone else's post while reblogging it until relatively recently, when someone replaced a John Green post with a graphic monologue about liking dick and [so everyone assumed, at least] he complained.)

dillonmckay 8y ago

But what percentage of traffic do they generate?

duxup 8y ago

Yeah I wonder if there is a big difference from "yeah there's a lot of porn here" to "yeah it's a porn site now" as far as the users who aren't doing that thing goes. There's a lot of porn on reddit, but I don't think twice about saying I post there. But if it was owned by a porn site I might think twice about how I define the site / mention it.

HeyLaughingBoy 8y ago
You're making a tremendous jump in thinking that the average user (or even most users!) of a site knows who owns it.
- duxup 8y ago
  I think a high profile purchase would make it more likely than not, particularly as it pertains to porn.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 8y ago
    Again, I think that unlikely. Even I have to think hard to remember who owns e.g., Reddit. And I'm the site multiple times a day.
    - duxup 8y ago
      Probably because it isn't pornhub, you'd remember that.

jplayer01 8y ago

Pornhub is probably the best party able to refocus Tumblr on mostly porn. I feel there are plenty of people who are interested in the kind of kink communities that grew organically on Tumblr, but felt Tumblr as a platform wasn't appropriate. Maybe Pornhub can give Tumblr the love and direction it needs to fill the kind of niche that Pornhub.com itself can't, and that might draw a much larger audience than before.

CM30 8y ago

Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. So if they allow it again, then so long as they don't promote these blogs to users who don't care for them, no one's gonna be bothered. It's like Reddit; yes it allows adult content, but since you're not forced to view subreddits that allow it, no one cares.

stcredzero 8y ago
Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. "Someone, somewhere is thinking thoughts I don't approve of!"

asdff 8y ago

Is it so hard to just put up an optional explicit content filter? I don't know why it has to be all or nothing when you can just serve the "Yes I am 18 and agree to see adult content" popup that's been around for decades now. Reddit seems to be doing OK with that system.

80386 8y ago

Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban? And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd leave for it - but the only real alternative is Twitter, which combines all the worst aspects of LinkedIn, Instagram, and 4chan. Who knows! Maybe anyone will use Dreamwidth ever. But I think Tumblr's lack of distinction between top-level posts and comments is a good feature - there were a few blogs, back when blogs were a thing, that I mostly read because they had a few good commenters. The problem is that it enables a lot of abuse, but stricter moderation and better features could prevent this - Tumblr wasn't designed for text at all, and it really shows. (You could edit anyone else's post while reblogging it until relatively recently, when someone replaced a John Green post with a graphic monologue about liking dick and [so everyone assumed, at least] he complained.)