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!

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,

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.

LightDelaBlue,

also the case on r/piracy

Plenty,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/13a96836-4454-4684-aa68-3343ced86b97.png

minimar,

Is this real?! What episode is it from!

LambdaDuck,

yes, it's real. it's from the episode on coal from june 2017: https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8?t=1443

minimar,

Ah, probably my favourite episode! I've never been a big fan of john oliver purely because I find him aggressively unfunny, but showing everyone the ridiculous cease and desist letter with "Let us neither cease, nor desist" is amazing.

yoichi,

It's edited

LambdaDuck,

no, it's actually not edited. that exact frame appears at 23:03 in the episode on coal from june 2017: https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8?t=1443

delfinom,

"Bob" was replaced with "Spez"

Yes it was edited. But the base image is real. It also resulted in a lawsuit.

Aaron_Davis,

Where they SLAPPED each other.

LambdaDuck,

oh, i don’t notice that, thanks!

concealmint,

Incredible move. But I doubt it'll last. Reddit is going to became 9gag and iFunny very soon. Rest in peace old reddit. It was fun while it lasted.

Squizzy,

I visited 9gag last week for the firdt time in maybe 8 years...wow the boomer humour and aggressive bigotry rivals Facebook

girthero,

Wow you ain't kidding! Its White nationalist this, and White nationalist that! They're going to replace us! /s

darkmugglet,

The point is to hit reddit where it hurts - ad revenue. There will be a slight spike in interests as people laugh, then the lack of original content will cause people to be bored. New subreddits will have to be created and built from the ground up. Moderating a subreddit with 40m subscribers is hard.

Spez needs to realize that going to war with the users is a dumb move.

orcrist,

He will not realize that, because he wants money and he'll get it. On the one hand, Reddit was fun. On the other hand, it's archaic for the reasons we're experiencing right now. Progress.

Squizzy,

Spez is thick as fuck but reddit will likely IPO and be just fine, this was a battle that didn't need to be fought.

Spez is a bad leader and his goals lie contrary to reddit's mission statement.

I left last time, I think it was the Victoria thing, and I joined Voat and that quickly went to shit. Reddit will get what they want from this which is more mainstream use.

darkmugglet,

I would argue that this whole thing will delay or devalue the IPO. Institual investors will look at this rather public fight and question his leadership. And the whole attempt at damage control makes him look bad. The only investors that will look past this fiasco are those who are doing the long play, and even then, they likely won't want Spez involved.

From a risk perspective, Reddit has just highlighted it's biggest risk: the volunteer moderators. The only way Spez will be able to fix that is to replace moderators with AI or paid moderation teams. At an estimated value of $3.4M, and a company that is not profitable, that increases the risk in terms of the business model.

In general, social media is inherently flawed for profits. The path to monetization is ads and data, and the fact that Spez is now squeezing the users make me think that the value of the data and the ads is not producing the returns to compensate for dumb ideas like the NFT project.

AnonStoleMyPants,

God dammit I guess I'll make an exception for /r/pics.

Senseibu,

Is Reddit having issues again right now? I can’t load the site properly in the last 5 mins

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