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    Feb 17th, 2009

    Regarding questions we’ve received about five accounts that were suspended yesterday:

    These accounts were suspended by our moderators, reflecting internal discussions about our community guidelines.

    I’m sorry for not clarifying these changes earlier.  But after serious consideration, we recently decided that accounts with the explicit purpose of reblogging content in a derogatory way are a detriment to our community.  Although these accounts were removed prematurely, we’re confident this was the right decision, and have updated our Content Policy accordingly:

    Harassment. Accounts with the sole or primary purpose of repeatedly harassing or abusing specific members or groups within the Tumblr community will be suspended.

    I’m really sorry for the confusion.  Your content and freedom of expression are the reasons we’re building Tumblr.

    - David

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      This is so idiotic in so many ways. Nice one, guys.
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      Reblogging because it agrees with my position and is much more succinct. I really need to work on being so wordy. .
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      Everyone complaining that this is a negative thing for Tumblr to be doing, quite frankly, mystifies me. Quite apart from...
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      accordingly’ ‘I’m...Tumblr.’ It appears that Tumblr have decided to ban Tumblrs making fun...
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      So if I want to be critical, on...regular basis, of anyone who uses Tumblr I have
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      I’ve read a bunch of the reblogs of this, and was surprised to see that so many people have an issue with it. I support...
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      This is a huge mistake by Tumblr, which can only mean one thing, Tumblr is near its end. I read some of those deleted...
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      You know, I don’t think...“nice”, but there’s a difference between critical
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      Wait, Conor has a Twitter?
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      Just doing my part to make the world a Conor Griffier place.
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      Truly, truly lame. So what, we can only post about rainbows, unicorns, bacon and sunshine? LAME!
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      This has been reblogged to death, but I think the almost memetic idea that Tumblr is David Karp’s playground is oddly...
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      Congratulations, David. You just agreed
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      this makes me want to a) change my tumblr to a solely-reblogging-others-in-order-to-mock-them format and/or b) start...
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      It’s quite worrisome Tumblr has not differentiated between critique, abuse and harassment.
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      Has anyone taken a census of what five accounts were suspended? I ask because I only followed Trainwrecks, so I only...
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      Great stuff, some people get cheap adoration from pointing out faults in others, I’m glad tumblr can see this ain’t...
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      Regarding questions we’ve received about five accounts that were suspended yesterday: These accounts were suspended by...
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      wonder… WHY NOT ME? Is it because...open letter to Tumblr? Or is it because my “victim” is...
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      If posting threats and being critical are getting people booted off Tumblr, color me deleted. It’s well within my free...
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      This is a slippery slope. Who...what Kris posts is against policy?
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