nikography:
“You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions to the misuse.”
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- equalitopia
okay. everyone is spazzing out because LGBT was left off of a directory nomination form (that is probably still being ironed out). and this quote just kind of ruins the whole argument. the reasoning that people might abuse this (and trust me, they WILL abuse it) is perfectly valid. and maybe tumblr just hasn’t found the right solution yet. not everything is an attack on the LGBT community, calm down.
and let me warn you, when you make requests like that- you don’t really know what you’re asking for. i say this because if you did know what you were asking for, you’d offer an actual solution. “build solutions to the misuse” comes dangerously close to humans/arbitrary people monitoring and/or approving YOUR content.
how do you really expect them to monitor fake nominations (e.g. “i’m submitting my straight friend to the gay category lololz~11”) from the real ones? email people to ask about their orientation? have a single human make a judgement call that may or may not be accurate? (oh my god, you guys would FREAK OUT all over again if that happened)
so that said, sit and think for a minute about what problems really could come of this at the moment. and then relax. maybe if you’re so inclined, offer a solution.
If the recommendations are purely a tally of how many people recommended a tumblr in a 1-week period, they’re pretty worthless. I’m betting on their already being mods hand-picking the winners. Any sane directory for LGBTQ isn’t just “so-and-so is gay and writes about kittens/music/posts-pretty-pictures”, it’s about LGBTQ topics, which is pretty easy to ascertain on a quick glance.
from humachine
abrickhouse:
lemdi:
caraobrien:
savagemike:
equalitopia:
Tumblr excludes the ‘Gay & Lesbian’ category from Directory recommendations
When I (@danlev) asked Marco Arment, Tumblr’s lead developer, about this issue, he responded:
A handful [of categories] don’t support [recommendations] because of potential social implications. Like creepy guys nominating women they like as “Erotica”.
When I told him that Tumblr is leaving out LGBT people, he replied:
I didn’t want immature people to nominate their non-LGBTQ friends/enemies into it. Didn’t want to cheapen/ruin the category.
But Tumblr already has a notice in place to prevent this. Upon nomination of a blog, you must check a box to agree that the blog “is about [category], and I understand that if it blatantly isn’t, my account may be suspended.” If this notice is in place for all categories, why does it not suffice for the Gay & Lesbian category?
You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions to the misuse.
Tumblr is discriminating against LGBT people: Not only are the Gay & Lesbian community excluded from a feature, but Tumblr is preemptively classifying the ‘LGBTQ’ label as an attack.
Only 5 categories are excluded: Erotica, Gay & Lesbian, Germany, Sexuality, Staff. Obviously, Sexuality and Erotica could have legal issues, especially with nominating a 13 year-old girl. The Staff category is obviously doesn’t need that functionality.
What you can do: Reblog, tweet about it, and voice your opinion to Tumblr’s Community Ambassador: Marc LaFountain (support@tumblr.com).
I am not ok with this.
neither am i.
It’s certainly strange that tumblr would bother to create a directory for LGBTQ only to then exclude it.
from brick house
