• turing-tested

    doing research on people's preferred formats for how restaurants have their menus displayed online and i'm including responses to the post to send to my boss but um. i don't think i can include this specific response

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  • turing-tested

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    I regret to inform you but my Google drive name at my job is Dirk Strider because that is also my real life legal name in my life

  • inthetags

    reblog and put in the tags your love language(s)

  • dollblooms

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    im high and i saw this tag and for some reason immediately assumed the op was being kinky rather than this being, a submission, which tumblr inherently tags

  • antique-symbolism

    tumblr users love to say "we don't censor things here like on Twitter" and then type things like "r3ylo" and "jk r*wling"

  • lesbianralzarek

    if you say "and then this fucking r3ylo-" that implies that "reylo" was the bad word in that sentence

    tiktokers do it because they have to, we do it because it's mean ☺️

  • astraltrickster

    Okay I know this was mostly a joke but I just feel the need to point out - this didn't start out as being mean, it started - and largely continues - as the opposite.

    For a long time, tumblr had tags and no other search function. You wanted to find a post that wasn't tagged, you had to go to Google and type in your query and add "site:tumblr.com" and hope for the best.

    As it is now, that method is STILL better than our native search function most of the time, but the quality of tumblr's native search function isn't really what's important here, what's relevant is how they implemented it.

    See, the search bar in the upper left corner of the site - you used to type in something there, and it would take you to posts tagged with whatever you searched. Then, one day, they quietly rolled out an update that instead brought you to a search page that pulled up nearly every post that even mentioned your search term.

    This...did not mesh well with the site culture.

    Because, see, we had an etiquette guideline - do not post your negativity in the public tags. Why? Because people go into the public tags to find content about things they LIKE. Posting hate in a public tag was basically seen as being a raging dramamongering pissbaby troll LOOKING to start a fight over petty nonsense.

    So imagine, suddenly, you log in one day, and someone's sending you anons angry about you allegedly posting hate in the tags, when you have NEVER done so. You use what you THINK is the tag search function to prove it, and - what the hell? Your UNTAGGED post about how annoyed you are with your notp...is appearing there???

    So people started censoring things like that. Usually not because we all think the thing we're complaining about is profane (though sometimes it does get a giggle to think of it as such), but to keep it from showing up when people are searching for what they love and to prevent pointless drama. To avoid looking like some asshole troll going onto a fan forum specifically for The Blorbo Show and making a thread entitled "THE BLORBO SHOW SUXXX AND YOU ALL SUCK FOR LIKING IT!!"

    And now it's just part of our site culture, for both peacekeeping reasons and petty glee.

    The more you know.

  • cinqueform

    On tiktok, you censor for the algorithm. On Tumblr, you censor for the users.