#guidelines for discussions

[doomdoomofdoom]

Apparently there's currently discussion in science (humanities in particular) about whether video essays could be accepted as academic writing on par with the academic papers we currently have

I think that's awesome as fuck tbh

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I had my profile picture revoked for trying to post Robert Mapplethorpe photos, which very clearly should be allowed under the new tumblr guidelines. And yes I am FUCKING LIVID.

Tumblr allegedly allows nude art now, but I guess has the same censorship standards as a reactionary Republican in 1989. The last post I had censored before I gave up didn't even have an embedded image, just a link to THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO's online archive.

I am so fucking pissed. I see werewolves knotting and twinks fisting and goddamn ahegao on this site practically single day. God forbid, I post a famous photograph by a historically significant artist in a mainstream collection BELOW A SCREENSHOT OF THE NEW GUIDELINES WITH THE RELEVANT PASSAGES HIGHLIGHTED.

It's Robert Mapplethorpe, not Sean Cody. For fucks's sake.

I've been awake for five minutes and I'm very angry.

[readandneedle]

Can’t sleep so I’m starting the time travel historical fiction book self published by a major donor to the local history museum I volunteer at.

The man can’t write fiction for beans, but his devotion to detailing all the appropriate safety precautions his fictional grad students are taking is endearing.

[crowleytwstrp]

Notice from Ghost Janitor

A) I have one message in the inbox that's been sitting since Dec 11th and that's due to me being somewhat lazy. I want to actually do some research into it as I'm somewhat curious and do wonder if it could give a better idea of how busy Crowley actually is.

B) I have two anon asks relating to ocs? Like one is definitely an oc, but the other doesn't really specify if it's an oc but I'm assuming it is. So reminder from the guidelines.

"Anyone may interact though for anyone wanting to use their oc I do request that anonymous not be used. I want to be certain the actual owner of the character is wanting to interact."

So for the vague RSA student, I'm not entirely sure if I should answer that. I don't know for sure who it's referring too and have no way of making sure it's not some popular fan oc that someone else is talking about. I only want the proper owners to refer to their ocs, not use others' ocs.

As for the other one, I plan to send a dm to make sure they did send the ask. If they weren't the one to send it, then I'm deleting that ask.

C) I got a picture of a spider in my inbox. As far as I'm aware, there's not a way to censor just the image. I don't want to spook anyone with the image so hopefully everyone with arachnophobia has the tags for spiders and such filtered.

Though considering the spider, it might be a bit spooky for people that are fine with spiders. Should I just answer the ask like normal and have the appropriate tags or do you all think it would work better if I reworked it into a post so I could hide the image under a "read more"/"keep reading" cut off?

Should I do that for any potentially triggering stuff?

Also I had to look up how to spell arachnophobia and google thinks it's a wise idea to show pictures of spiders being held right next to the definition. Pretty sure that isn't helpful for anyone with that fear and maybe wanting to grab the definition directly for someone and/or double-check their spelling.

I do plan to answer the ask with the spider, I just want to gather a general idea about how I should treat it as I do think fear of spiders is a well known phobia. (I myself really hate when I see a spider inside my house. Otherwise I'm usually fine though sometimes staring at a photo of a larger species can freak me out a little.)

Sorry for those waiting to be answered. I'm lazy.

[honeykaes]

Heads up again, if you risk commenting and interacting whether good intentions or to make snide comments

If you’re blog doesn’t have an age on there, I’m blocking you

[violetclarity]

like...not trying to offend anyone but I’m honestly becoming more and more convinced that catholocism (& probably christianity as a whole) are simply irredeemable? like I understand that the actual message in the bible is all about love and peace or whatever, but I don’t understand how you can look at all the harm that christiandom has wrought and continues to wreak, all the people they have hurt in the name of their faith, and think that the probably intention of some dudes a couple thousand years ago means more than...all of that.

[immortaljackal]

NEW FORM: https://forms.gle/K4FRiUvE9QzRDXU36

Given the worsening struggles I’m having with my memory, I am now making the interest checker mandatory for anyone who wants to interact in-character.

Verses are now listed by whether they are a main, alt, or ship verse, along with the brief identifier that matches the verse’s box on the verse pages (example: “main: CANON”, “alt: DIVERGENCE”, “ship: PARTNER”, or “ship: PARNTER (MUSE)”). The starter request forms have been updated to match as well to make it easier to specify verses.

It’s a matter of accessibility, and those who have not filled it out by the end of the year (which gives you over six months to do so) may find themselves unfollowed after the start of the new year in 2023, whether we have interacted before or not. (You will not be blocked in the process, so should you fill out the form after being unfollowed, I will refollow.)

While the form itself is lengthy (I have over 30 muses, ffs), a lot of the form is optional, and I try to provide as many “all of these” options as possible to speed up the process as well.

I’ve updated the links to the form in the pinned post, and will be updating all the coding sometime over the course of the following week (there are a lot of redundant links to it, so it’ll take me a bit to track them all down). The old form has a redirect link to the new one, so any link will still get you to the right form, at least.

I will also be updating the rules in the process of updating all the coding to reflect this change. This means that even those with established interactions are no longer exempt from filling out the form if you wish to continue to interact. I will be posting reminders between now and January 1, 2023.

I honestly don’t want to have to be strict about this, but the simple truth is that tumblr is becoming needlessly stressful due to various boundaries and accessibility needs either being looked over or outright ignored, and so for my own sake to keep this hobby enjoyable to me, I have to draw the line somewhere.

Specifying the muse and/or verse is essential for interacting with me, especially given how many muses and verses I have over all four blogs (seriously, there’s over 30 muses with a combined over 150 verses that just have established tags, and most muses have multiple verses each, often within the same fandom for various timelines and/or divergences), and this helps ensure that there are options to fall back on in case you forget to specify while sending memes or such.

[staff]

A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. 

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:

The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.

Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.

Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. 

Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.

When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.

Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:

Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.

Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.

Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

[porcupine-girl]

An important message to college students: Why you shouldn't use ChatGPT or other "AI" to write papers.

Here's the thing: Unlike plagiarism, where I can always find the exact source a student used, it's difficult to impossible to prove that a student used ChatGPT to write their paper. Which means I have to grade it as though the student wrote it.

So if your professor can't prove it, why shouldn't you use it?

Well, first off, it doesn't write good papers. Grading them as if the student did write it themself, so far I've given GPT-enhanced papers two Ds and an F.

If you're unlucky enough to get a professor like me, they've designed their assignments to be hard to plagiarize, which means they'll also be hard to get "AI" to write well. To get a good paper out of ChatGPT for my class, you'd have to write a prompt that's so long, with so many specifics, that you might as well just write the paper yourself.

ChatGPT absolutely loves to make broad, vague statements about, for example, what topics a book covers. Sadly for my students, I ask for specific examples from the book, and it's not so good at that. Nor is it good at explaining exactly why that example is connected to a concept from class. To get a good paper out of it, you'd have to have already identified the concepts you want to discuss and the relevant examples, and quite honestly if you can do that it'll be easier to write your own paper than to coax ChatGPT to write a decent paper.

The second reason you shouldn't do it?

IT WILL PUT YOUR PROFESSOR IN A REALLY FUCKING BAD MOOD. WHEN I'M IN A BAD MOOD I AM NOT GOING TO BE GENEROUS WITH MY GRADING.

I can't prove it's written by ChatGPT, but I can tell. It does not write like a college freshman. It writes like a professional copywriter churning out articles for a content farm. And much like a large language model, the more papers written by it I see, the better I get at identifying it, because it turns out there are certain phrases it really, really likes using.

Once I think you're using ChatGPT I will be extremely annoyed while I grade your paper. I will grade it as if you wrote it, but I will not grade it generously. I will not give you the benefit of the doubt if I'm not sure whether you understood a concept or not. I will not squint and try to understand how you thought two things are connected that I do not think are connected.

Moreover, I will continue to not feel generous when calculating your final grade for the class. Usually, if someone has been coming to class regularly all semester, turned things in on time, etc, then I might be willing to give them a tiny bit of help - round a 79.3% up to a B-, say. If you get a 79.3%, you will get your C+ and you'd better be thankful for it, because if you try to complain or claim you weren't using AI, I'll be letting the college's academic disciplinary committee decide what grade you should get.

Eventually my school will probably write actual guidelines for me to follow when I suspect use of AI, but for now, it's the wild west and it is in your best interest to avoid a showdown with me.

[igneouswyvern]

Pinterest won't let me post this comment and I can't for the life of me figure out why

Like ??? There's no swears no kys type messages why am I being flagged. What Pinterest community guideline is this violating

[nope-body]

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[bharat059]

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[pocket-deer-boy]

This is just a personal pet peeve of mine but i feel like a lot of online art tutorials overstate the importance of stuff like guidelines to get “correct” anatomy every single time and while those are typically really good handgrips for beginners we should also tell beginners about gesture drawing. Like maybe i’m being too animatorbrained here but being able to pump out a pose in anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes and quickly move onto the next drawing without lingering on every little mistake is a really really good way at getting good at drawing people proportions quickly. If you make mistakes fast you learn from them fast. So here’s a little exercise:

Sit down, grab some reference images, draw ten poses in twenty minutes (or do ten poses in ten minutes if you’re feeling adventurous or confident) and take a step back and look at your work after the fact. Be sure to move from drawing to drawing quickly once your timer is done. Pretend you’re in a model drawing class and the model has already changed pose whenever your timer hits - finish up whatever lines you were drawing, move on to looking at what the model is doing now.

You will make a lot of shitty drawings, of course, but that’s not so bad. You only spent a minute or two making each one. Focus on the drawings you do like, and look at them as a whole.

Look at all the drawings together and how they fit together on the page. Look at little details and lines you’re proud of. Take note of things you found difficult to get right in such a short time. Take note of the things you liked doing. Do the exercise again, and focus in on the things you want to improve or explore.

Maybe you want to focus on how the torso conveys its weight on the legs. Maybe you want to focus on how shoulders and arms bend around the neck. Maybe you want to focus on how to convey depth on the torso. Maybe you can learn something more about how to draw a body if you only draw using sharp lines and angles. Maybe you can learn something more if you only draw using squiggly, overlapping lines. Maybe you can learn more about how to draw a body if you only fill out the shadows with thick, quick lines. Congratulations! You’re not just learning how to draw a body, but you’re now also exploring your tastes!

This is a fine exercise to do alone, but it’s a lot more fun to do as an activity with a small group so you get to discuss the art you made together.

[propelbottle]

time to asnwer the age old question

[usacounselingcredit]

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[thesporkidentity]

legit can't tell if newbies don't know the etiquette of "don't tag you [fandom] hate" or if they're deliberately being assholes to try and start shit thinking it will build them a following