Tumblring Into SteemIt.com

I've been making Tumblr Blogs for the last couple of years. For example, this tumblr shows images from Moab, Utah. I have tumblrs for Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. The blogs contain about ten thousand images.

The original TOS for Tumblr allowed "Not Safe for Work" images.

Professional photographers travel to the Mountains where they take high quality nude in nature style photos. I did not want the images in my main blogs, but I don't like excluding people either; So I created a side blog for NSFW photos from the Mountain West.

What I saw happen to Tumblr is as follows:

The site allowed NSFW photos. The first photos were fairly high quality art photos. Many people uploaded lifestyle pictures.

Pornographers hit the site with a vengeance. Porn spammers systematically swamped the site. The porn spammers started filling everyone's feed with bondage, abuse and other nasty images.

Most of the blogs that had art nudes closed as they were harassed by the pornographers.

I've known other web developers who had similar experiences. They created photo sharing sites. They allowed art nudes and then they found their site swamped with pornography and had to shut down.

Apparently, some pornographers found a way to sneak child pornography past the tumblr filters last month.

This created huge legal challenges for Tumblr.

Tumblr decided to delete all the NSFW blogs. I really don't blame them.

That means there is a huge number of porn sites seeking a new social media platform to take over. Some people want them to move the SteemIt.

The people who run these sites are very good at manipulating platforms. Most of these people are just reblogging images that they stole from other sources.

The tumblr pornographers will probably start taking the majority of the rewards pool without creating substantive content. Worst off, their content is extremely difficult to police. So I think it is a mistake to court them.

This is a picture shows Mt Olympus in Salt Lake. It is from my Utah Tumblr. It has nothing to do with this post.