moderatetoaboveaverage:

smoqueen:

paulsrockinpagoda:

text from tumblr blog "photo matt" stating I'm continuing to get harassment and death threats here, in a way that is overwhelming the account. If it's hard for me to deal with this, with the team behind me, if nothing else this has given me a lot of empathy for how pile-ons must be totally unmanageable for users with the interface of Tumblr, especially the lack of basic things like bulk actions that have been in WordPress for a decade-plus. I'm actually on sabbatical for February, March, and April so I shouldn't have replied in the first place, I was just concerned about the reports of an account wrongly terminated and followed up at the request of Tumblr community members contacting me, and other staff is hesitant to make public statements for fear of harassment, attacks, and doxxing. As far as I'm aware improving moderation tools both for staff and regular users wasn't on Tumblr's roadmap when I left, but I hope this raises awareness within the team. When I'm back to work in May this will definitely be on my mind, as well as if we should continue to invest Tumblr at all if it's going to harbor such toxicity and harassment. The mob misinformation and harassment makes people scared to work on Tumblr, and likely drives away scores of good creators, Blaze posters, advertisers, and subscribers—the folks who will make Tumblr a sustainable endeavor. I'm going to return to my regularly scheduled programming of reblogging and posting to Tumblr, and have no further comment on the suspended account that people with limited information think shouldn't have been suspended. The post is tagged "#tumblr #moderation #sabbatical"ALT

matt decided to not make this post rebloggable so here’s a helpful post for anybody who needs it

hope i don’t get banned for this

really confused as to how improving moderation wasn’t on their roadmap considering their lawsuit, contracting moderators who were being actively bigoted, and the concept of selling moderation (literally never even seen that one before)