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Can't imagine how this would backfire at all.
"What are you talking about, I never said that, you're gaslighting me."
Whatcha wanna bet posting screenshots of the deleted post is against the TOS too? Because that totally won't backfire when someone with enough oppression points wants to issue receipts and gets banned for it.
To be fair, on paper I wouldn't say this is a bad feature to have in and of itself.
One of the biggest design flaws on Tumblr - that I would even go so far to argue is the root of a lot of Tumblr's user base issues - is that its current reblog system allows misinformation, or even a dumb comment made in ignorance or error, to spread like wild fire and continue to circulate long after it's been corrected, deleted, or debunked so long as one copy of the original and idiots who continue not to fact-check still exist. It's how you get Tumblr users who still "signal boost" or parrot wrong information or callouts made in malicious intent or even deliberate trolling even when there's dozens of posts in the notes that have pointed out how they're bullshit for months. Or how you'll occasionally see people with disclaimers as their headers because someone took an innocuous post they made and turned it into a crusade they still get messages hounding them about it because Tumblr has no concept of time stamps. Hell, I'd argue it's even partially what fuels for Tumblr's infamous "never forgive, never forget" mob policy since an ignorant statement or joke in poor taste made years ago might as well have been made 5 minutes ago for how little difference it makes to the dashboard system delete the post or try and move on from it.
So on that front, potentially giving users the ability to go feign ignorance and go "whaaaaaat, I never said that" about their posts seems like a negligible consequence to trying to curb that - especially when they're are already workarounds to Deleting Fucking everything in the form of screenshots and archives.
A bigger concern I think is how their ToS is extremely underdeveloped at this point. A major flaw I've noticed with these "zero negativity" sites like Pillowfort or the now defunct Writscrib is that they don't seem to understand that, if you want to be successful, you gotta give those dang dirty antis/haters/nonbelievers just a little bit of leeway when using your site because A) even if the average joe has no intent on going to every other user and posting "u sux" on every comment, they won't bother using it if they think they're going to get finger-waggled at by a moderator the second they get snippy on a post they stumble across, and B) if you're pushing a "zero negativity"/"don't like, don't look" policy, you damn well better intend to apply it to everyone the same way, because users are going to notice the second you pull out the "no mean comments uwu" shit on one type user but not another and call you out on it.
