#community standards

[bettie-may-page]

Bettie Page Standing. #293

This is the Fourth time posting this picture of Bettie only to have Community Standards block it. This time I changed (photoshopped) the background, let’s see if it goes into “Community Standards.”

[trashpandaartblog6000]

[sportsandlaughs]

[palephx]

Random shit that just got deleted from Facebook, without explanation or review. Just punishment. This is how it's gonna be.

I've already downloaded my entire profile and post database (for the 27th time). It's six muthafukkin' gigabytes.

[broken--dreams]

Community Standards...

Would this be adult content if the far guy was wearing a shirt?

What if the near guy was wearing long pants?

What if the near person was a girl in dress that went below her knees?

What if the person lying down was a 10 year old boy? A 15 year old boy?

What if that boy was wearing shirt?

Now, apparently only the original poster can appeal these decisions. So found it in my feed with a red banner and saying that it violated standards.

So how did I repost it.?

Easy:

open image in new tab.

Using your OS, marque select the image minus the red border.

Create a new post.

Paste the image as part of that new post.

I would much prefer if Tumblr just had NSFW tag, or copied the movie rating scheme.

[monotremer]

How does a mild drawing of an android in lingerie I posted get flagged "mature" when there are so many other drawings and photos like it on Tumblr that don't? Is it the queer implications of the fact that Data is a boi crossdressing? I hope that's not why but I'm very irritated by this dumb community flagging system.

[xtrablak674]

Not Withdrawing, but Reclaiming and Reprioritizing

In the last few months I have shelved my Facebook Messenger account after having over a year ago turned off my FB proper, this was followed with my Instagram account also being put away. Just this week I have decided to step away from my Deviant Art account after getting dinged for violations by a snitch on the platform. If my creative insight doesn't fit into the terms of service or community standards, than I need to leave you alone.

A few years ago my Flickr account was deleted with no notice whatsoever. I remember how disrupted my life felt because I was on that platform before it was bought by Yahoo ('05) and was subsequently passed around like a low-priced sex worker. I developed relationships, friends and even met some folks IRL. I had participated in moderating groups, creating them and utilizing all of the tools the platform offered. As I have said in my artist talks, it was the jump-off for my artistic career giving me the confidence to believe that my work could exist in the real world and be purchased, consumed and enjoyed.

Albeit I have never downloaded TikTok myself, the young people in my life send me many links and in some cases videos from the platform. I can relate to the anxiety some of these same young people are feeling about the platform being shutdown or restricted. These digital spaces become places for connection and a way to interact with people offline, and this can be addictive and affirming. But in a lot of ways I still have to wonder the same thing behavioral scientist, economist and sociologist are wondering, at what cost?

Initially the only reason I ever got on anyone's social media was to promote my artwork, but after my foray into the art world, the drying up of employment and the depletion of my funds I let that go, but kept up the pretense for a while, maybe too long. As I approach another turn around the sun I am reevaluating if these spaces are the place for me.

I can recall in the pre-internet 2.0 world, when DSL was king and AOL wasn't such a distant memory, that there wasn't a lot of love for me online. Who I am and how I embody those aspects wasn't ever something that sold easily. This was reflected to me from my brief stint as an escort during my summer off from college, reinforced by the first ad agency that I worked at, where the only time I was ever utilized in an ad was when my face wasn't showing.

I say this to say, I understand I am not everyone's cup of tea. Not that I think my physical appearance or personality are lacking, I think our societies idea of what is beautiful, palatable or interesting are lacking. We are supposed to imbibe of a limited set of flavors never truly contemplating a more complex palette. And I was a persons whose very identities used all the colours in the Crayon box.

I've mentioned before I haven't had intimate relations since '12 and dated since '07 the last platforms I was on were antiquated things like Adam4Adam and match.com, which curiously enough is still around. No one has ever swiped right on me, because I have never been on those apps. Not to date myself, but I can recall when hookups happened on the phone, where you would call a number talk to someone and maybe possibly be chosen, or in a lot of instances be swiped left on.

In some ways I guess it can feel like I am withdrawing from the world especially since I am still not a fan of leaving the house, something that pre-dated the pandemic by nearly a decade. I have just grown weary of unfulfilling friendships, empty acquaintances, and neglectful niblings (using this as a catch-all for the children of my siblings). I have always been a person who wanted more, deeper connections, complex conversation, real intimate relationships but the time for those things have waned completely becoming shadows of things I had in the past and I simply refuse to accept less than the best, even if that means that I am keeping my own company.

Settling, it has never been something I was good at, I'd rather be bad by myself than in a situationship that makes me compromise who I am, or partition my identities to be more acceptable, or accept less than what I deserve. "Maybe I'm just like my mama, she's never satisfied." Why should I accept mediocre when I aspire to greatness?

As I enter the third day of a fast that I didn't even plan, deeper into my quinquagenarian years and I pass around the sun for another rotation or colloquially as I say to the kids, the celebration of my first appearance (a la comic book) I want to move away from the things that aren't serving me, celebrating me, acknowledging me and keeping me close to their heart. If I am not getting this from those around me I will be content to be happy with myself, by myself.

[Photos by Brown Estate]

It's All Temporary

Fuck Your Community Standards

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

[bettie-may-page]

Bettie Page Standing. #289

Let’s See If Tumblr Goes Nuts

[kazifatagar]

Meta summoned to Prime Minister's Office. Did they apologise now?

On August 5, the Malaysian government summoned Meta to the Prime Minister’s Office following the removal of posts by PM Anwar Ibrahim, who had expressed condolences for the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Read More LM News Britain shuts down as disorder CONTINUES Meta summoned The government also criticized Meta for suspending a live broadcast of a pro-Palestinian rally. Malaysia’s Prime…

[wolf-tail]

Socialists, get into fat liberation theory right the fuck now. I am speaking as a fellow dirty commie, DO IT.

You all like to lump fatness into either the category of "product of bourgeoisie decadence" or "side effect of capitalism forcing us to eat bad food" when neither is the actual case.

Fat people exist in all social classes and all walks of life, often regardless of individual choices.

Fat people are victims of capitalist exploitation at the hands of the multi billion dollar diet and weight loss industry that pushes eating disorder behavior and unnecessary surgeries on to us all in the name of profits.

Fatphobia ties into beauty standards that capitalists use to manipulate people into hating their bodies so they can be sold beauty. Think about how many of the ads you get every day are for weight loss.

[palephx]

I'm not really sure why Fookbase has banned me for 20% of the last 15 years, but it's kinda annoying. Especially around elections.

[paulthepoke]

Community Standards

There are people and groups in this world who are simply not interested an anything else but their agenda.

Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales belong to the Lord; all the weights of the bag are His concern. Yours truly has been convicted by Facebook justice as a violator of Community Standards. Specifically, human exploitation… “It looks like you shared something in order to exploit others for profit.” -Facebook Full disclosure: I have not made 1 penny from Facebook. I have REFUSED their…

[thebaronmunchausen]

photo: Andrea Genota

[xtrablak674]

Fuck Your Community Standards

Closed out my Facebook account I don't know feels like maybe four years ago, it was probably less because my sense of passing time is horrible. But I kept Messenger, there are a few of the kids I speak to there and the couple of friends who aren't on Apple devices I just find it easier to use one of these platforms than the other options for communicating via smart device.

Three days ago I get a message that said,

"You can't send messages for 3 days. Something you sent in a chat went against our Community Standards. See Community Standards."

Now this is where the low levels of obsessive compulsive disorder in my brain kick in. There are truly only three people I message with regularly on Messenger, my sister in Florida, my niece in the same state and a friend in Buffalo. Now there had been two others who I had worked with back in the late nineties who I had messaged because I found something that they might find interesting. But according to FB's message "something" was the problem...

To one I sent a screenshot of the PoopReport.com website that he used to webmaster and create content for. He had asked my help on a few design project for the site, which I happily contributed to because he had helped me with copywriting needs on many occasion. The other a friend I had worked at the same ad agency as the first guy, who I really became more friends with post-employment. I had a few photos of my trip to Georgia after I lost my dot-com job and stayed a night with him and his beau at the time.

The math wasn't mathing, I didn't have beef with any of these people. Meaning some unresolved issue or matter that we hadn't talked about that lead to distance. I did send my niece a NPR podcast link about BDSM, but once again a National Public Radio link! I am finding it hard to believe that any of these people would report what I sent to FB as opposed to speak to me directly.

This is the shit I had about the post social-media world we live in, we don't say shit to folks because we may offend someone. What this leads us to is a whole lot of unresolved feelings and things left unsaid.

But my bigger issue is with directly with Meta. How are you going to send me some vague-ass message, and then give me no recourse other than reading your very extensive Community Standards, which I already violated and was being punished for? How exactly is this helpful to me NOT doing what ever it is I did again? If I don't know which message was the offending message I can't refine or adjust what I send in the future, I am literally set up to fail.

There are a couple of other platforms I am on that give you the right to dispute a matter, and then they will re-review the problematic post or message. But those aren't communications platforms, and I guess its too much trouble to do the same thing on these kind of apps.

What it does is first is annoy the shit out of me, cause I am left attempting to figure out what I did in a myriad of different kinds of post I had sent recently. Was it the words of inspiration, or maybe the cat meme or maybe the word "poop" is against community standards, how the fuck am I supposed to know?

The next thing it does is discourage me from using the app further, all of the folks I speak to regularly there I can speak to on another platforms, and fuck Meta altogether. But why does it have to come to such extreme actions, I am a low-level user. Truth be told I'd prefer to just have everyone on iMessage and get rid of this need for any kind of mixed-messages.

I didn't READ the Community Guidelines because seriously that would be useless, but I did copy their topics which I have listed below:

VIOLENCE AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

Violence and Incitement

Dangerous Organizations and Individuals

Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime

Restricted Goods and Services

Fraud and Deception

SAFETY

Suicide and Self-Injury

Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity

Adult Sexual Exploitation

Bullying and Harassment

Human Exploitation

Privacy Violations

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT

Hate Speech

Violent and Graphic Content

Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity

Sexual Solicitation

INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY

Account Integrity and Authentic Identity

Spam

Cybersecurity

Inauthentic Behavior

Misinformation

Memorialization

RESPECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual Property

CONTENT-RELATED REQUESTS AND DECISIONS

User Requests

Additional Protection of Minors

I can't even remotely see anything I sent three days ago figuring into any of these categories, unless it was a request by the user which is low-key a signal to me to not fuck with that person anymore. I mean lets just contact the feds and start the RICO case, this is ridiculous. I am always of the mind, if you have a problem with me, tell me don't tell a third party. But because Meta keeps the shit ambiguous as fuck I don't even know who I should unfriend or at least cease communications with.

The fact that this entire matter has taken up residence in my head for the last three days has pissed me the fuck off. Its like seriously, can't we use our words? I was mildly joking with a nibling the other day when I said, I would low-key just love to move to the blue area of the moon and just stop fucking with folks completely. But then they started to point out to me the things I benefit from from society. My question is this, what is a good is a society that can't say what it means, and more importantly mean what it says?

[Screenshot by Brown Estate]

[fairymischief]

"I'm pretty with makeup"

"I'm pretty without makeup"

Radical feminism: "It doesn't matter if you're pretty at all. You don't exist to be pretty."

"Female body hair is okay"

"Female body hair is not okay"

Radical Feminism: "Female body hair simply exists and is completely neutral. Talking about whether its 'okay' doesn't even make sense."

"Presenting THIS way makes you a man"

"Presenting THIS way makes you a woman"

Radical feminism: "Nothing about the way you present makes you a man or woman. Gender isn't real."

I love that radical feminism just removes you from so many binaries of thought. It makes them completely nonsensical. Why would I analyze whether I'm pretty when it doesn't matter either way? Why is the acceptability of my body hair even a subject of discussion? It merely exists, just like the bark on a tree. Does society sit around and debate whether a tree ought to be able to keep its bark?

I've come to realize that I've been handed a ton of "either/or" choices about who I am all my life and told to make a decision on each one. And they were all illusions! I just exist. I never had to justify the way I am or even formulate an opinion on it.