#Community Labels

[staff]

Thanks for all of the recent feedback around Community Labels being incorrectly applied to content. In particular, we appreciate the input we’ve received from the LGBTQIA+ community and understand the frustrations from folks who felt that their content was unfairly labeled. When we realized this was happening, we immediately investigated and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.

The LGBTQIA+ community makes up about a quarter of the Tumblr community. It is important for us to support all Tumblr users, especially those whose safe spaces are under threat in certain parts of the world.

As you know, alongside of the rollout of Community Labels we also expanded the types of content allowed on Tumblr as a way to welcome more creativity, art, and self-expression. Our goals remain the same today. Human error happens and we apologize to anyone who has been impacted by these mistakes.

We are working to better understand what happened and will follow up with more information soon.

[messylustt]

just a reminder to those who report works for being too sexual. if you feel uncomfy or dislike the work don’t put a community label on it, instead don’t read it. most writers put content warnings on their posts. read them before venturing further, please. and if you dislike something on there, again don’t read any further. smut etc. isn’t for everyone, that’s perfectly fine. but don’t do that to a writers hard work. please and thank you.

[sreegs]

just a psa in case you didn't notice it: if people report posts as missing community labels that shit gets thrown into review and the OP may get stuck with a bullshit label for no reason. fuck that.

however: some people are reblogging posts and self-tagging them with community labels, and that only affects that post and any other post reblogged from that post. the OP is unaffected

i'm pointing this out because i've seen posts marked as mature and people tagging/commenting "why is does this have a mature label??" but if you go back to the OP it's fine

if you see a post flagged double-check the OP or go back through the reblog notes and see if it just flips to mature somewhere in the reblog chain. that's someone self-flagging for some reason

[yourlocalgaymafia]

Just a daily reminder that it’s ok to have complex identities that no one apart from you understands. Always feel free to use as many labels as you like because your identity doesn’t exist to make sense to other people, it exists so that you can better understand yourself <3

[rowiewritesstuff]

HOW TO BLOCK TAGS:A PSA

Hi there buddy chum pal friend buddy bro homie amigo (gender neutral) !

I see you don't like a certain tag. Let's learn how to BLOCK IT!

This goes hand in hand with my recent post, and I felt like I should share this for my peeps so y'all can be safe out there.

Only you can prevent cringe shit from coming across your feed.

Step Numbah 1: Go to your account

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Step Numberrrr 2: Look for "Content You See"

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Step Number Three: Filtered Tags VS Filtered Post Content

Filtered Tag: A filtered tag is something set by creator of a post. For example, if a post is cringe ass nae nae baby to you, you can type in "Cringe Ass Nae Nae Baby" tag and any post tagged with "Cringe Ass Nae Nae Baby" will say "This post contains filtered tags".

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Filtered Post Content: Now if you're uncomfortable with a certain word, you can filter it out via this. Keep in mind if any person's username, title, or post has this word anywhere in it, you will be unable to see it (unless you select to be allowed to). If a past reblog has said tag, it will also be filtered out.

Note: Tumblr will let you know which tags are filtered out and give you the option to view them if you wish.

Step #4: MAKE USE OF THE COMMUNITY FILTERS

Each of these is self explanatory- however Show, Hide, and Blur can be a lil silly.

Show- Straightforward, it will show you ALLL of these posts unless you have filtered tags.

Blur- If you have a community tag blurred, it will warn you that it has sensitive material. It gives you the option to view with the warning.

Hide- Hide will hide anything related to the community tag. For example gore out fall under violent, so it would be hidden completely.

[wip]

How long does it take for a post to get out of "Community Label Review"?

I have one still stuck in there 11 days after being wrongly flagged as mature content. As a result of the flagging, people who reblogged it had mature content warnings appear on their blogs. And the post itself is hidden from view for most users. Now at 11 days old, it'll be so buried that those users won't see it anyway even if it's unflagged.

It's hard enough for gifmakers these days without our posts being flagged because a fully clothed network tv character put on his police badge in an impure way?? 😭

Answer: Hey there, @xofeno!

Thanks for reaching out to us, and we’re really sorry for the long wait. We have a very small team working hard to get through all of the requests for Community Label review that we receive, and we can only work through these in the order in which we receive them.

It’s important our human teammates review these requests rather than letting machines decide which of your posts should have a Label or not. So, depending on the number of requests that come through, it sometimes takes longer than we’d like. We apologize for the frustration and inconvieniance caused here, but know that we are doing all we can to get them answered as swiftly as possible. In the meantime, your patience is much appreciated!

Thanks for your question, and have a good day.

Best,

—Jon

[beansprean]

Update on the community labeled posts

Well, my faith that tumblr would see the error of their AI or whatever and remove the mature/sexual labels from all the posts was...apparently unfounded. Here are the posts that were "re-reviewed", they promise, by a human person, and determined to be too Mature for general audiences:

I don't even know where to start with this one. Are we running on club penguin rules now? Banned for saying cum??? (funnily enough, the post this art was based off of was NOT determined to need community tags.)

Unsexual nudity, no female presenting nipples. What's the problem?

Unsexual nudity, no female presenting nipples. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM??

only a recent reblog of this one got labeled, not the original??

I'm starting to think tumblr staff has something against fat guys.

OH! EXCEPT THESE POSTS WERE RE-REVIEWED AND GOT THEIR MATURE TAGGING REMOVED:

TUMBLR PLEASE TELL ME HOW THESE ARE DIFFERENT???? @support

AND while the label on the OG post above was removed, my reblog of it was determined to be mature???

QTP part 10 is STILL flagged and unseeable, which is the only one of all these posts that I might accept community tags on. it certainly doesn't need to be removed from view entirely! and no word back from them yet on having my whole blog in horny jail. this is all so ridiculous.

[verdantmeadows]

Is there a genuine reason people refuse to use Tumblr community labels (the feature that lets you mark a post as mature and then specify how it is mature)? To me, it seems like a great feature that allows you to easily warn people and stop people from seeing content they don't want to see.

I've seen people argue they don't show up when searching tags, but I have seen community labeled posts when browsing tags all the time. Some people say it may lower engagement, but I fail to understand how that is bad, because it means that the labeling is working as less people are seeing content they filtered and did not want to look at.

This feature was one of the few Tumblr features I was very excited by yet it feels as if people resent it for a reason I cannot fathom.

[michelleleewise]

Hahaaaaaa!!!! I have finally bested you you hellsite!!!!

[navybrat817]

Fuck all the way off. Seriously.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Congratulations! Your blog now has a "mature content" warning.

Yeah, I started getting mature content community label alerts. I've appealed all of them because they're idiotic.

Of course, now I have to wait for Tumblr's inefficient review system to get the problem fixed.

[autisticexpression2]

I generally appreciate that people are actually using mature content labels now because it makes it much easier to reblog naked women without getting my blog nuked, but some of you are a little overzealous with it. I promise you don't need a mature label on a picture of a woman in a bikini on a beach. That is very much something children regularly see. Their mothers wear bikinis in front of them. This has been a social norm since the 60s.

[queenimmadolla]

Alright, before I start posting any more smut, let me go ahead and teach you guys how to shit on, oops—i meant change your community labels provisions and give you some 411 on them:

COMMUNITY LABELS

So, if you’re on tumblr—over the age of 18 (or not, I’m not gonna be one of the many liars on this website and say I wasn’t devouring smut about bands i looked up to when i was younger than 18, but you will not be interacting with me if you’re tryna read what I write and you’re not 18 years or older) and you Iike to read fanfiction or you like to browse through art, odds are you’re missing out on a lot. See, last fall, maybe end of summer, tumblr introduced these “flagging” guidelines they call Community Labels. If what you write or draw meets the “requirements” (spoiler alert, even if they meet none of the requirements, tumblr will still flag it as Mature should someone recommend it be labeled for their dumbass petty reasons) for Mature Content, they give you the option to flag it so it no longer appears on the dashboards or searches to anyone who does not have their Community Labels setting on to show it. What tumblr does not tell you, is that BY DEFAULT, those settings that would allow you to see that content should you wish to are automatically off, unless you’ve gone in and changed them.

See, at first i thought maybe this was a good thing. It wasn’t too hard to give my account permission to see the Mature Content tumblr would flag, but that was until I realized this was just another way for tumblr to censor things without making it outwardly known.

When I changed my settings, I was able to do so on the tumblr app. This was available when the Community Labels first rolled out. Then, when people started to actually change their settings, tumblr made it desktop exclusive—or at least hard as hell because I have not been able to find those settings on the app since. Tumblr also picks and chooses what works/posts to flag and essentially hide (because again, if you don’t have your settings set to show Mature Content, you are not seeing a lot of content and it will be rarely interacted with). Tumblr often goes against their community guidelines and the guidelines they set forth for what falls under ‘Mature Content’, several of my works in particular that are not at all Mature have been flagged. I was given a reason by tumblr support that even though it didn’t meet any of the criteria for mature content, it still needed the mature content label. No, you read that right. Mind you, I’ve tested the flagging, I created another tumblr account, wrote some dirty ass smut, flagged it from that other account, and tumblr decided that post did not meet the criteria for Mature Content even though I described c*m eating. And it gives literally anyone the power to censor your work, be it mature content or not, since Tumblr mislabels posts because they don’t actually review it and they don’t care. While I can’t help you remove these labels, not even tumblr support will help you do that, I can show as many tumblr users as possible how to still view and interact with this content. And a little reassurance, once you have your settings changed, YOU will be able to CHOOSE whether or not YOU want to view a post that has been flagged (labeled) as mature, as you’ll have the option to show it or hide it from your feed. So if you don’t want to see something, you don’t have to, rather than not getting a say at all. Here’s how to fix your settings on desktop:

STEP ONE: GO TO SETTINGS

STEP TWO: Once in your settings, scroll down past ‘Content you see’

STEP THREE: Locate ‘Community labels’ and ensure all of the bubbles under ‘Show’ are selected.

You see the little ‘Hide’ selection at the bottom? Yours will be on, so turn that stupid bitch off with as much aggression as you can because it’s not only evil and hiding mature content, but a shit ton of harmless stuff as well. The amount of times I will scroll through my search and see something stupid fluffy and cute flagged as mature is RIDICULOUS.

So, yeah, fuck that and fuck tumblr for removing these settings from the app to make sure people can’t access it easily and if you didn’t know how to stick it to tumblr by changing your settings, now you know. Congrats and go read/look at whatever you want!

[makeyoumine69]

Every day I get notifications that my fics have been flagged, lol.

So, I thought about making an announcement that in the future I'll post my long written smutty fics in early access for my subs before I post them here. I just give up and don't have enough power to fight against this shadowbanning system anymore, I spend days on writing fics which are getting shadowbanned less than 10 hours. So, if you love my writing and want to support me, you're welcome! I hope I didn't upset you guys, thanks for understanding! 💗🖤💗

[vivid-ink]

Only just properly catching up now with the distressing incident of lovely Luna's @pandoraslxna blog being reported & subsequently 'shadowbanned'. 😟😓 This has caused me quite some unease all day today. 😣 I'm incredibly saddened for Luna, and I am crossing my fingers and toes that no one else ever has to go through such an ordeal.

I first learned of it early this morning & it bothered me ALL DAY as to why on earth anyone would report the content of such a kind, encouraging, supportive, talented and creative blogger, who has done nothing but uplift & rally this Avatar fandom from day one. 💖 I was brought up with the mentality of 'live and let live'. If it's not hurting you or anyone else then, if it's not your cup of tea, not up your alley, or not your style/groove, then just let it be and let it go. Scroll on. Click elsewhere. Do not expand.

Now, many authors & content creators (if not all) on here are VERY DILIGENT & CLEAR with putting content warnings in the body of their posts, usually within the first or second paragraph. Content that is '18+ MDNI' is always explicitly stated/marked and/or separated by that 'add read more/keep reading' feature.

The fact that someone has felt offended, wronged and/or upset enough to report a harmless blog to Tumblr moderators, made me think WHY. What could possibly be their reason(s)? I guess that we'll never truly know this person's reasons unless they choose to share, but I was also very perturbed by the effect that their actions have so quickly and immediately had on poor Luna's beautiful blog.

So, I did some Tumblr homework. Now I'm no expert on using Tumblr. Some of my mooties will know I discovered this wonderful community quite late, only a few short months ago (much love to all of you folks 😘). But I stumbled across this article on Community Labels. It's a fantastic article actually that details exactly how these labels are supposed to function on Tumblr to enable creators to control what audience their content is available to and enables consumers to filter what content appears on their dashboards.

And then it hit me, that I've never used a Community Label... 😬

Despite always putting a written warning in my posts that require one, I've never actually used a community label. And it made me think, could this be why? Are we all at risk of being 'shadowbanned' if we aren't using these labels when we should be?

Sorry for the rant. If you're still with me, you deserve a blimmin' GOLD MEDAL. I'm tired and I think I need to go to bed. I'm just sad and upset at what's happened, and I don't want it to happen to anyone else. 😥