Let’s all go back to Tumblr
Tumblr was one of my favorite places on the web for a time. A real anti-fbook, but then they were taken over by yahoo.<p>It didn&#x27;t change a lot at first, but the wall street ad and censor machine started to creep in and it became obvious what once was a haven for sharing things you would never do on fbook, well it got a new moderation staff and more changes.<p>I stayed with it even after the change to hide the porn by default and such. Then one day one of my tumblrs got banned.<p>I understood, it very much looked like many of the rampant spammer&#x27;s tumblr sites, I had thought thay by using a custom modded theme and other things a tumblr employee would see it was not a cut of mill spam blog but highly custom and completely unique.<p>I was wrong, the moderator that made the site disappear did not see it. When I emailed the next level staff asking why and suggesting that it was unique and not spam, they replied it was flagged as spam and is gone.<p>I wrote back one time begging for access to download a copy of my tumblr, it was all original content, all the text, all the photos. They did not care to even reply.<p>I tried to write the CEO, I reached out for an explanation on twitter even. Nothing.<p>I know, not a customer, the product, and your rights to speech are not rights when publishing on a sharecropper lords platform, but I expected more of tumblr. I was mistaken.<p>I later read about how some of these companies were employing a lot of people from places outside the USA and did some research on the majority of religions and morals of those areas and scratched my head wondering how the main people of tumblr could even consider such a move given the wide range of widely shared content likely being disturbing to so many in some of those places.<p>Then I realized, it was not just about the cheap labor, it was about have an excuse for why so much was mopped up without a second thought. IT wasn&#x27;t the tumblr crew doing it right - this was the plan from yahoo and the future advertiser&#x27;s and wall street and all that.<p>I&#x27;m so mad I did not backup my tumblrs when I had the chance, so mad that I gave them so much. Promoted it as a place to have fun without the stress of fbook, linked in and such.<p>Never again.<p>At least with other portals you know there is a chance at loss ( I routinely save my comments before submitting to any wordpress based site, assuming that akismet will likely flag my comment and make it disappear into the ether box not seen by blog admins.. and of course blog admins make them hidden as well.<p>Can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m about to say this, but I have more faith in G plus providing customer service and fair rules than tumblr. Boy that did not taste right coming out of my virtual mouth.<p>That&#x27;s how pitiful tumblr is now, unless it goes back to being self owned &#x2F; private or whatever, it is dead to me, And there is not backup for them to get of my past trust and love.