I honestly don’t know if this is allowed here but I thought this is malicious compliance at its finest.
If you don’t want to drive traffic there I’ll repost what the mods posted below:
POLL: Decide on the future of /r/Pics!
Hello, /r/Pics subscribers!
Boy, what a whacky time we’ve all had lately, huh? Reddit decided to kill off third-party applications, a protest got planned (and possibly exploited by bad actors), the site showed up in the news, various communities started opening back up, others decided to stay inaccessible, and then the CEO of Reddit implied that a bunch of moderators would be removed from their positions!
Crazy, right?
Anyway, we – the so-called “landed gentry” – definitely want to comply with the wishes of the “royal court,” and they’ve told us that we need to run the subreddit in the way that its members want. To that end, we figured that the only reasonable thing to do was directly ask how you’d like things to progress from here.
Which of the following should we do?
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Return to normal operations
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Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy To be clear, if people choose the second option, screen-grabs from videos will be allowed (provided that there aren’t any visible logos, inserted graphics, or other digital elements present). You could – if you wanted to – look through episodes of Last Week Tonight on YouTube, find moments featuring John Oliver at his sexiest, then post images of those moments here.
It’s entirely up to you! Whatever the /r/Pics community decides is best, we’ll respect!
Vote, friends! Vote now!
(You can vote by upvoting either of the comments in the thread below.)
Voting has now closed.
Our final tally is as follows:
Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes
Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes
It would seem that the community has spoken!
Henceforth, /r/Pics will only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy.
(Said images must adhere to all of the community’s other rules, including those mandated by Reddit.)
Happy posting!
r/debatereligion requires all posts to be in Latin, same spirit.
Spez really should have read r/maliciouscompliance a bit before he bit off more than he could chew
Spez is peak r/choosingbeggars wanting free work to be done but oh, not with your own tools that actually work, no you need the ones that are inside his Basement for the last 10 years and barely work at all.
That’s a classic reddit moment. There’s such a good community on that website, it’s tragic that reddit wants to use that against itself.
These kind of protest won’t reduce the traffic on the platform though. They might even gain traction and increase it. If it’s not linked to reduced ad revenue, I’m afraid it’s counter-productive.
He will probably get wind of this and cover it on his show 🤣
Now videos should do the same but with rick astly…“you know the rules and so do I”
You know, if more subs do this, I might actually go back to reddit for a bit hahahaha
😄 I’d rather not give them the traffic
Only if it shows John Oliver looking sexy while marrying a cabbage :-)
And then people will go check it out.
Ironic engagement is still engagement.
I personally think the best “maliciouscompliance” act mods can do in the long term is to switch up all the subs.
So technology will be used for gardening, gardening will be used for android, android will be used for coffee, coffee used for pcgaming, etc. It’ll make everything really confusing for new users and help slow their growth.
No this all seems too clever by half and is just putting more eyes on Reddit. People are drawn to drama. If mods were serious, they’d delete or pull all of their custom plug ins and delete their accounts. Let Reddit have the subs. Unfortunately a huge number of mods won’t actually endanger their positions, which means Reddit corporate has the ultimate leverage in the end. Just go. I respect the mods who have left. If more of them did it would leave a true void.
Image being Reddit corporate and waking up tomorrow and 5000 subreddits were open but all the mods and their mods tools were gone. No big dramatic pranks or drama from the mods, just a classy exit.
i agree. this is kind of a temper tantrum coming from the mods that will result in more eyes on reddit… the only way to win, is to not play.
Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.
archive.ph link for those who don’t want to give reddit traffic.
30,052,708 John Oliver Enthusiasts - Lolol
oh my god i love this. it would be a shame if all other subs followed suit…
Quite a few subs had polls today for how to run, one of them was r/showerthoughts voting on which days to be open and had a comment for each day for the next week for open and each day for the next week for closed and it was unanimous of (exactly equal numbers) all upvoted days closed and all downvoted days open.
/r/gifs is doing what /r/pics did.
The people has spoken. I love democracy
didn’t spez want democracy? He said he was going to allow people to vote out mods lol. You want democracy, you get it!
hahaha that’s brilliant
Genius! I wish every other sub did this.
Love this from the mods.
Now this is the definition of malicious compliance!
God dammit I guess I’ll make an exception for /r/pics.
I can’t see what they did, my browser says it can’t establish connection to the server. Sounds like reddit admins took whatever it was down?
