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.
Love this from the mods.
He will probably get wind of this and cover it on his show 🤣
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.
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
hahaha that’s brilliant
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?
Genius! I wish every other sub did this.
archive.ph link for those who don’t want to give reddit traffic.
30,052,708 John Oliver Enthusiasts - Lolol
Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.
Now this is the definition of malicious compliance!
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.
that is really fkn funny
/r/apple could’ve only allowed discussions about fruit.
But instead they decided to return to normal operations - they’re in the group of mods unreasonably afraid of losing their position as mods, which is honestly quite bizarre.
I understand building a community and wanting to keep at it (I moderated 3 large Brazilian subreddits) but at this point, you just want the title - because you’ve already lost control, trust, and quality.
you mean a subreddit made to bootlick a corporate entity is bootlicking a corporate entity? woah
Mods of anything to do with Apple should be in most support. Spez specifically came after the developer of the most popular iOS app.
I guess they don’t care as long as they can still put that they moderate a popular Apple subreddit on their resume lol
Update on the vote results, for people who don’t want to go there:
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Pro John Oliver: 61.7k
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Return to normal: -13.7k.
I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text “Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal”.
The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn’t representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.
Let’s assume that everyone who upvoted their option also downvoted the alternative.
The group A, has |A| number of individuals. Group B has |B| number.
Option A: |A| - |B| Option B: |B| - |A| Option A = |A| - |B| = -(-(|A| - |B|)) = -(|B| - |A|) = -Option BThe results would be opposites of each other and would highlight the opinion of the majority anyway.
r/theydidthema-- oh.
Right.
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I don’t think this is a good idea. The point of the blackout is to hit Reddit where it hurts, by driving traffic down. This prank (partially) reverses the work of the blackout, by getting people back to the pics subreddit to post and see (John Oliver) pics. It turns the blackout into a joke. And I think is a step towards the community just moving on from the blackout without it actually having the long term effects that were intended.
I’m all for malicious compliance, but I think this is the wrong flavor of it.
Nah I disagree. Turning things less serious is not necessarily a bad thing. People will visit to check it out but long term it will get stale and die off.
