Hi! I hope that by now you've recovered fully from your sickness. Thank You for your condolences and the kind words & advice that you've expressed here! I'll try to keep what you said close to my heart! I hope that you'll visit here again more often~!

Sorry I disappeared, a lot has happened on my end including getting pretty sick. I heard what was going on when I came back and though it's late I hope things get better for you. Take your time, take care of yourself first. ^^

[Leaves a slice of carrot cake on a porcelain plate and a porcelain cup of hot mocha latte by the entrance of your rabbit hole.] Are you there, Zinnia?

Hey! Are you alright? You've been missing from this place for more than a month now~!

LOL! I can only imagine what the idiot programmers at Tumblr who modified/customized that generic open source 'bot must have been thinking when they set the rules that govern which kinds of pages the 'bot logically flags as "NSFW" (Here's what I imagine, written in pseudo code):



Obviously, those programmers did not take into account that "Art is subjective". Artistic nudes, illustrations for diaper commercials and innocent cartoon characters in the form of upright walking, partially or fully clothed animals can all be false positives for such logic as seen in the "DO CASE ... ENDCASE" statement in the above pseudo code and the pages mistakenly marked as "NSFW" for the Tumblr admins to later delete indiscriminately! There would have been a lot of pages for the Tumblr admins to review manually but since it was not feasible for them to do so (Which took away the subjective reasoning), the 'bot was used to save time and to facilitate a fast cleanup of all of the (Tens of thousands?) pages on Tumblr.


Well, perhaps there were a few pages with actual hard core porn that weren't dealt with properly by the Tumblr admins and which are probably still around in one form or another but that still shouldn't be a reason for the Tumblr admins to have had drastically used a generic open source 'bot to do the filtering and cleanup jobs to try to help restore Tumblr's "clean" corporate image (Again, Tumblr also wanted Apple to resume selling Tumblr's app in the iOS App Store - All of what we're both saying was mentioned in the article that I linked to in my previous VM). Yes, the whole process was a "Double edged sword" that may have temporarily removed the pages with the hard core porn but it also ended up turning away many legitimate artists that were making money for Tumblr (Via banner ads) and themselves (via commissions) with the content on their pages, so the ban ended up harming Tumblr's image as far as artists are concerned (Tumblr was previously known for supposedly protecting "The freedom of artistic expression" but it appears that "Money talks, everything else walks"). Oh well, what can you do? Shit happens!

I know, I was there. It was a MESS. I have a sfw blog and even I was flagged on a post or two because they just threw an open-source bot that could not handle a site like Tumblr. I only vaguely checked it once or twice on my phone and most of the "offensive" images were just gifs of animals and some of my art for having too many 'flesh pixels' even though nothing strange or lewd was happening in them. ^^;

The nsfw ban was just a cover-up for the ACTUAL reason why they were taken down, it was due to very sketchy and rather aggressive groups that have been reported to Tumblr many times but haven't been dealt with. The NSFW ban made no difference, many of these groups are still there and porn bots still lurk. The sheer fact that Tumblr explained the ban badly and even their own staff posts were being flagged was...quite a shitshow. x3

I do believe Tumblr only harmed themselves though, a lot of their userbase was nsfw artists making money off their work. They lost a lot during that ban. ; w ;

That's all good to hear about AOTK's and your Discord Server! You guys and gals should be okay then.


Near the end of last year, Tumblr enacted a similar policing policy - The problem is that they went overboard with their NSFW artwork purge and started to target whatever NSFW blog that they deemed fit for removal based on the posted artwork (See the following article dated 11/20/18 -> here. Many diaper artists like ToonBabifier (Known as EconomicsMMO here) were forced to abandon posting their artwork at Tumblr because of Tumblr's viral, NSFW artwork policies which were enacted to "Clean up" Tumblr's corporate image in the hopes that Apple would place Tumblr's app back onto Apple's iOS App Store (Apple had dropped Tumblr's app from their store so as to distance themselves from a "Family unsafe" Tumblr. So much for "Preserving the integrity of artwork." Remember the old saying: "Money talks, everything else walks").


So, do you think that you can help out with the revival of your "The Corrupt a Wish Game!" thread? JE Punk already joined in unsolicted. Another turn (Post) by you, the game's creator, might help to further interest in the game and help to boost activity here!

Discord has it's issues, but I am also a part of the AOTK Discord server and even they monitor it as hard as it can. The mods are extremely fast as soon as they discover an underage user to kick them, and to keep the server 18+ as stated in the rules and the server is set as such.

The DPA one isn't very active, partly my fault since life had to get in the way. But this site has never been a fan of chatrooms and always preferred the forums. Which is fine, I think a forum focus is better for the users here. Everyone has a preference even for rping here which is fine to me. :3

But I can reassure you, the good servers try their best to maintain them. At least check on them every so often and can be quickly alerted with a simple @ command with the name of the moderator role to alert the staff to such things.

Discord however, at least are making more effort than Tumblr (haha there I said it) when it comes to the matter of dealing with these issues. They mass-deleted many servers which contained illegal content and encouraged reports of such.

Well, I think that Discord mainly appeals to a younger generation (The so called "Millennials") who grew up with a smartphone in their hands as soon as they learned how to grasp things (See -> http://www.bayimg.com/5cfb4b3d2a60e8...b5a696aa14.jpg). Even so, that migration won't stop me nor other long time members here from continuing to make things "Lively" in this site! There are many sites that cater to DLs only or ABDLs only (Like ADISC, though I think there are some DLs there but the main focus there is on AB/ABDLs) or ARDLs only (e.g. - The ARArchive). This site is unique in that it is the only one of its kind where people from different parts of the diapered community (DLs, ABDLs and ARDLs) come together and enjoy each others' company in peace (Most of the time). It would be a shame to see it disappear.


I hope that you're carefully monitoring your Discord server. Unlike this site, Discord officially allows anyone fourteen years and older to join. I've read that Discord is starting to get "Seedy" like the "Dark Web". The FβI is now investigating Discord groups for illegal activities (See the following articles -> here and here). More "openness" (Being more user-friendly and very conducive to connectivity) may invite more trouble if left unchecked. For your own sake, you have to be vigilant with the monitoring or something bad could happen in your server and then you might be held accountable for it even though you had nothing to do with whatever bad happened.


Speaking of making things "Lively", I tried to revive your "The Corrupt a Wish Game!" thread. It would be nice if you could help to "Get the ball rolling" further with it~! IMHO, it's a good game that can help to get some more member interaction (Activity) going on here. Also, many members (New ones or long time lurkers) could use it to build post count to move themselves into Junior Member status if not anything else.


I had already let Stoner know about the bug concerning the Shoutbox history when I last VM'ed you.

I know, I believe real life has basically tacked everyone and it seems even the mods are now effected by it. I think general activity has lowered simply because many people have as you said, migrated to sites like Discord which is VERY user-friendly and considered one of the best places to connect and talk about such comments at this time. It might possibly also be because everyone has been juggling their own things.

Stoner is probably the best person to check things rn to be honest, especially in the technical area. ^^