Reddit: open /r/pics or else. Mods: OK but you didn't say how

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?

  1. Return to normal operations
  2. 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!

DocMcStuffin,
@DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world avatar

archive.ph link for those who don't want to give reddit traffic.

LenticularTorsion,

Thanks, didn't think of that!

LenticularTorsion,

Btw I edited my post to link to your link instead

demvoter,
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30,052,708 John Oliver Enthusiasts - Lolol

tallwookie,
@tallwookie@lemmy.world avatar

fucking lol!!!! big ol thumb to the eye of the High SlimeLord himself, /u/spez

CynAq,
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spez can go suck a bag of musk dicks.

screamin,

Musk is such a good flavour though... I used to buy a buck's worth of musk sticks for the train ride home... don't debase musk flavour for that sad ween

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.

LenticularTorsion,

I thought so too. Such a big default sub is pretty useless.

Idreamofcheesy,

You didn't like "I haven't beaten my wife in 6 days!" With a picture of a thumbs up, no face or anything?

curiosityLynx,

Has John Oliver already had an episode about spez's enshittifying of reddit? Because if not, I guess this is one way to make him at least mention it on Last Week Tonight. xD

wilberfan,
@wilberfan@lemmy.world avatar

Unfortunately, no new LWT episodes until the Writer's Strike is settled...

LenticularTorsion,

That's probably the goal.

Why John Oliver and noone else though?

STUNT_GRANNY,

Last Week Tonight is mainly known for taking deep dives into things people ought to be more concerned about, whereas most other late-night shows tend to focus on politics and pop culture stuff.

grue,

I'd argue that what John Oliver does is more legitimately political than the "focus on politics" horse-race bullshit the other shows have.

geoffervescent,
geoffervescent avatar

/r/gifs currently is following suit! If you still have a reddit account go vote ASAP! (Also unsubscribe from all your "business as usual" subs as possible, immediately, if you can't delete your account immediately for whatever reason)

theusualuser,

Took a peek and it doesn't look like there's any recent posts on /r/gifs ? Like, sort by new and everything other that 5 reddit is killing itself posts is at least 19 days old. What's up with that?

7ime1ock,

It might be a problem on your end. I'm looking at sub and I see posts of John Oliver.

qat,

I see it too! This is the best form of protest ever.

Bero,
Bero avatar

you probably were on /r/gif instead of /r/gifs

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

/r/showerthoughts is also doing something similar.

LenticularTorsion,

Voting is done, they're doing the same hahahaha

eee,

Oh this is absolutely hilarious.

nothacking,

r/debatereligion requires all posts to be in Latin, same spirit.

Rawrkrite,

This is AWFUL— now I want to go to Reddit 🥲

slackdrift,

“John Oliver Supports the Reddit Protests’ Use of his Image” - https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/reddit-protests-john-oliver-pics.html

Steak,

hahaha that's brilliant

theUnlikely,

This is great. Tomorrow I'll see what I can do with stable diffusion.

mtnwolf,

I think their rules specifically say no AI pics.

theUnlikely,

I think that was before this John Oliver thing. Since the subreddit rule also says no screenshots, but the post even says screenshots of him are fine. So we'll see ¯_(ツ)_/¯

seeCseas,

the only rule that matters now is John Oliver only.

tom42,

What a fantastic, creative and constructive reaction. Respect for the mods!

NSA_Server_04,

Absolutely crushing the direction they chose.

Badger,
@Badger@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Amazing work as always! Though I did have to check it out kind of defeating the purpose of the protest. I think the best way to achieve what they want is to just do a really shitty job in moderating. Let the entire site be over-run with scams / crypto bros / nazis.

Squizzy,

It already is, /r/all used to be current and now it's just a constant stream of spam posts.

You should be able to block a webpage and all users that share it. Relay For Reddit has a feature where you can select "other conversations" and see all the posts of a specific link. If I could then block everyone who posted a shitty "Elon runs an ETH competition" post... There'd still be a millions others.

Nazis everywhere, Spez left alone to grow in scope. Fuck Spez

seeCseas,

It already is, /r/all used to be current and now it’s just a constant stream of spam posts.

and that's the whole point of this!

eatham,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

I can't find r/all

Squizzy,

And this will become the same if it catches on, either it will die slowly or remain very niche or it will be victim to the same shit as reddit.

Reddit was astroturfed and spammed and that doesn't seem like something the fediverse can fight any better.

darkstar,

Just did my part and posted a sexy John Oliver image

cfx_4188,
cfx_4188 avatar

You have confirmed my words. Moderators consider themselves "nobility" who have the right to make decisions for the rest of the cattle. That was the point of the "protest.

Kissaki,

I have no idea how you can come to this conclusion. It stands directly opposite to the text.

They made a vote. And acted upon it. How is that "making decisions for others"?

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

The "cattle" were asked if they wanted to resume business as usual. They overwhelmingly voted no.

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