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Tumblr excludes the ‘Gay & Lesbian’ category from Directory recommendations
When I (@danlev) asked Marco Arment, Tumblr’s lead developer, about this issue, he responded:

A handful [of categories] don’t support [recommendations] because of potential social implications. Like creepy guys nominating women they like as “Erotica”.

When I told him that Tumblr is leaving out LGBT people, he replied:

I didn’t want immature people to nominate their non-LGBTQ friends/enemies into it. Didn’t want to cheapen/ruin the category.

But Tumblr already has a notice in place to prevent this. Upon nomination of a blog, you must check a box to agree that the blog “is about [category], and I understand that if it blatantly isn’t, my account may be suspended.” If this notice is in place for all categories, why does it not suffice for the Gay & Lesbian category?
You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions to the misuse.
Tumblr is discriminating against LGBT people: Not only are the Gay & Lesbian community excluded from a feature, but Tumblr is preemptively classifying the ‘LGBTQ’ label as an attack.
Only 5 categories are excluded: Erotica, Gay & Lesbian, Germany, Sexuality, Staff. Obviously, Sexuality and Erotica could have legal issues, especially with nominating a 13 year-old girl. The Staff category is obviously doesn’t need that functionality.
What you can do: Reblog, tweet about it, and voice your opinion to Tumblr’s Community Ambassador: Marc LaFountain (support@tumblr.com).

Tumblr excludes the ‘Gay & Lesbian’ category from Directory recommendations

When I (@danlev) asked Marco Arment, Tumblr’s lead developer, about this issue, he responded:

A handful [of categories] don’t support [recommendations] because of potential social implications. Like creepy guys nominating women they like as “Erotica”.

When I told him that Tumblr is leaving out LGBT people, he replied:

I didn’t want immature people to nominate their non-LGBTQ friends/enemies into it. Didn’t want to cheapen/ruin the category.

But Tumblr already has a notice in place to prevent this. Upon nomination of a blog, you must check a box to agree that the blog “is about [category], and I understand that if it blatantly isn’t, my account may be suspended.” If this notice is in place for all categories, why does it not suffice for the Gay & Lesbian category?

You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions to the misuse.

Tumblr is discriminating against LGBT people: Not only are the Gay & Lesbian community excluded from a feature, but Tumblr is preemptively classifying the ‘LGBTQ’ label as an attack.

Only 5 categories are excluded: Erotica, Gay & Lesbian, Germany, Sexuality, Staff. Obviously, Sexuality and Erotica could have legal issues, especially with nominating a 13 year-old girl. The Staff category is obviously doesn’t need that functionality.

What you can do: Reblog, tweet about it, and voice your opinion to Tumblr’s Community Ambassador: Marc LaFountain (support@tumblr.com).

danlev Posted by Dan Leveille on February 5th, 2010 at 5:36pm

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  7. danlev reblogged this from nikography and added:
    Hey Nik, Thanks for responding to my post. I do agree that some systems are very difficult to prevent abuse, but I could...
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  11. inky reblogged this from nikography and added:
    nik’s response
  12. fleetfootedfox reblogged this from nikography and added:
    If the recommendations are purely a tally of how many people recommended a tumblr in a 1-week period, they’re pretty...
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  14. nikography reblogged this from morningstar and added:
    - equalitopia okay. everyone...form (that is probably still being ironed out). and this...
  15. morningstar reblogged this from falconieri and added:
    Was sind die probleme mit einschließlich Deutschland!?!?
  16. youdeceived reblogged this from -dane and added:
    lmfao what the fuck! 98% of tumblr is gay, why would they do that! fail.
  17. brusier reblogged this from fuckyeahlgbt and added:
    no entiendoooooo
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    If I can blog about being straight then anyone can blog about their orientation! No matter what they are. Just because...
  22. callmemrpeerpressured reblogged this from savagemike and added:
    Hurm. Honestly, I cannot decide where I stand on this. Honestly, because looking at the other categories, I don’t care...
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  25. shatteredshards reblogged this from swingset and added:
    I’m confused, too. Are they announcing plans to get rid of the category? Because I see it there right now, but this post...