April 2012
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March 2012
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Three weeks ago we posted a preview of our new Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines to get your feedback.
We’ve been delighted to read all of the thoughtful feedback you’ve sent to our policy team, and have hopefully answered every single email. Please let us know if we missed you.
Based on all your notes, we’ve made a few tweaks to the upcoming policies....
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One of our service providers just suffered a major network outage, reducing our web capacity significantly for the past two hours.
We’re frustrated with the amount of time it took to resolve this issue, but are more disappointed that this issue had such a dramatic impact on our service. We’re already working to remove this component as a single point of failure.
Our deepest apologies...
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Tumblr at SXSW 2012
South by Southwest brings together some of the world’s most creative people in film, technology, and music. We’ll be heading to Austin to put on a bunch of Tumblr meetups, panels, and shows. Come hang out with us!
Meetups and Events (open to everyone, even if you aren’t attending SXSW)
March 10 @ 4pm: Tumblr meetup at the The Jackalope (404 East 6th) NEW LOCATION!
March 12 @ 4pm:...
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As we previewed a bit in the past week, we’ve been hard at work updating Tumblr’s policies, rewriting the three primary legal and policy documents that underlie your use of Tumblr: our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines (formerly “Content Policy”).
We’re really proud of the new documents. We think they’re easier to understand and better...
Follow-up: Tumblr’s New Policy Against...
Last Thursday, we posted a draft of a new policy against blogs that actively promote self-harm, along with some PSA-style language to appear next to searches associated with self-injury. The reaction was overwhelming. The post itself provoked more than 25,000 likes, reblogs, and replies; and more than 2,500 of you sent in comments by email. Thank you.
By far, the most common comment was some...
February 2012
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A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content aren’t...
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