NewTumbl was great while Dean was active with them. He was cool about everything and seemed passionate about upcoming updates and site enhancements. One day he was gone, and it all changed after that. At some point, users were invited to act as moderators on a volunteer basis, seemingly pushing their own agenda over the original site intent. I believe this is when underage posts moved to the forefront and the chatroom became a place to advertise those of like mind. Blogs started disappearing when inappropriate pics were flagged, and an awareness to fight back was created. One user claimed to have reported the site for these issues. Of course this is all speculation, but it seems that the struggle was ongoing with the new moderator group getting way out of hand. Deleting blogs across the board without making any sense was a pretty dramatic statement to all of us who were playing fair and only wanted an awesome place to play within legal boundaries. If the NewTumble team didn’t just get mad at users for reestablishing their deleted blogs and finally call full stop, then they may have not known they were about to get shut down either. It feels like they shot themselves in the foot and ruined it for everyone.