Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
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r/pics: return to normal, -2,329 votes; “only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy,” 37,331 votes.
r/gifs: return to normal, -1,851 votes; only feature GIFs of John Oliver, 13,696 votes.
Having trouble reconciling why these polls are always overwhelmingly in favor of continuing protests when users are apparently opposed to them. Craziest thing.
As I write this, the top post in the “hot” tab on r/pics is a picture of Oliver flipping the double bird next to an image of Huffman. On r/gifs, it’s a GIF of Oliver hitting a table and saying “go fuck yourself” next to an image of the Reddit logo.
we can rest assured that John Oliver is collecting all the sexy pics people photoshop/post and is going to put together a Last Week Tonight episode on this, once the strike is over.
John Oliver always likes to stick it to the big guy in the fight which I find hilarious, I wish Last Week Tonight was on the air so we could hear his takes.
Idk, wouldn’t stunts like these still drive engagement? Still, they’re doing their best in a bad situation. I commend them for that. Fuck Steve Huffman.
I'm honestly tired of the trolling. We know that the advertisers and investors aren't going to reverse course, which means Advance isn't going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going. All the trolling does is hurt the users, and push Reddit closer to the brink. Either Reddit will just be closed because it's not profitable, or there will be a tsunami of bans.
We won't be able to make spez change his mind, that's pretty obvious, what we CAN do is having reddit evaluation being further cut down.
That's the purpose of the trolling, ruining spez's toy IPO.
All the trolling does is hurt the users
The users are overwhelmingly in favor of any kind of protest, their participation in it is massive, they can't ban them all, they're dozens of millions.
We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going
He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.
It's not our business if his project might be in little trouble.
Yep. The majority of Reddit is lurkers. I don't have any data, but I would bet a higher percentage of content posters and creators were using 3P apps. The fediverse probably poached a lot of good content.
Sometimes I feel like the internet is a huge mistake, but then I see stuff like this and am just all, "bravo, you crazy assholes," in the proudest, most pleased, way possible.
I had to go look, it’s absolutely amazing. Some guy posted a mock-up of a new Steam controller, and the top response is “I don’t see what this has to do with steam engines”
r/wow is having a vote right now, one of the options is filling the subs with pictures and memes about Denathrius, a villain NPC of the past expansion, I hope that option wins.
All subs forced to reopen should do something like that.
Kinda bummed r/onlyfans can't join. We were already about fans. I don't wanna see what r/CemeteryPorn cooks up, but I suppose spez might. We can get some photoshopped pics of the crypt keeper in there
This is a great idea. Not only does it maliciously comply with what Reddit said but it also has the chance of getting a mention on LastWeekTonight when they come back.
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