[Coda]

Originally Posted by Voidbarker

you underestimate my stupidity in html and css, coda.

also, server costs.

tumblr could've just moderated their shit, but no, they have to ban nsfw content, which sex workers rely on, on a day that's very important to sex workers. never mind the fact that people rely on commissions of nsfw for money.

all this because of apple. fuck apple.

Free servers are totally a thing, though they might have content restrictions. And paid hosting can be REALLY CHEAP -- the hosting provider I use is $7/mo if billed monthly, or $4/mo if billed yearly. (I really ought to go ahead and switch to yearly billing.) Of course I only use that for really basic content like my resume and hosting my Ludum Dare games. For day-to-day use I actually host a server from my home Internet connection. This is easier than it sounds.

Unfortunately, no, Tumblr actually CAN'T moderate their stuff. There's WAY TOO MUCH OF IT for humans to monitor and as the current flagging chaos proves it's insanely hard to automate it with any level of accuracy. I agree that it's ridiculous, and I think their old policy was probably fine, but I imagine they wouldn't have changed the policy if some business consideration hadn't made it relevant -- maybe the cost of enforcing the policy as it stood was too hard, or maybe it was too hard to enforce it, or maybe there was legal pressure in some jurisdiction, or maybe the existing moderation system was getting abused or wasn't catching enough violating content. But moderation wouldn't have been the answer.

What does this have to do with Apple, though? It's Verizon you should be getting pissed off at, since they own Tumblr. As far as I know, Apple has nothing to do with it?

EDIT: Though I can't really say a whole lot about your HTML/CSS skills. That, at least, could be a valid point.