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!
Definitely allowed. For now, anything that fits in the spirit of malicious compliance is fair game, it doesn’t have to be text only too.
Is this real?! What episode is it from!
yes, it’s real. it’s from the episode on coal from june 2017: https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8?t=1443
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.
It’s edited
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
“Bob” was replaced with “Spez”
Yes it was edited. But the base image is real. It also resulted in a lawsuit.
Where they SLAPPED each other.
oh, i don’t notice that, thanks!
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
that’s fair.
Only if it shows John Oliver looking sexy while marrying a cabbage :-)
Will his mother-in-slaw be at the ceremony?
Dad, get out!
OK, I’m now posting from my phone while standing on the lawn. Is that better?
My cabbages!
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.
Ahh, the old /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts switcheroo.
Ahh, the old /r/worldnews and /r/anime_titties switcheroo.
hold my bong, I’m going in!
/r/johncena and /r/potatosalad
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.
How about sexy John Oliver promoting Lemmy? Make reddit delete the post instead of the mods.
The problem with that is, someone else who doesn’t care about the issues would take over as mod, and the sub would go on more of less normally. This way, it will eventually kill the sub without trying to delete it or take it private (both things Reddit can undo).
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.
The redditors have spoken. Also r/gifs do this as well.
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.
It would exacerbate the swing but wouldn’t change the result
And I don’t think maliciously compliant mod is interested in statistical representation.
I agree with you, it would legitimate the results though. Not that I believe that Reddit cares about that either.
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.
you can’t both upvote and downvote the same item. the last option you selected is the only one that’s counted at any given moment.
edit: wait, i see. if they’re separate comments, you could just upvote the comment you like and downvote the comment you don’t. i was assuming one comment that said upvote or downvote.
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Spez really should have read r/maliciouscompliance a bit before he bit off more than he could chew
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That’s how billionaires make their money isn’t it? Get everyone to pay them while they themselves pay others as little as possible.
A-fucking-men
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.
I think it will reduce traffic at some point, when the lurkers are getting tired of John Oliver pics
who the fuck could ever get tired of that? idiots and losers that’s who.
Look at the alternatives. It’s either this kind of protest, or returning to normal operations or losing their sub.
Another alternative: redirect people here
Yeah they should have tried to get people out.
the odds are stacked against the mods and the users, but any little bit of resistance is useful.
Yeah they should’ve gone with something even more specific - like pictures of Joe Biden eating ham sandwiches. Something with limited content options so that the sub is essentially forced to become inactive.
I think their way was better. It lets the giant number of subscribers have fun and engage, while also screwing the Reddit execs. They’ll eventually get bored and it will be the same result.
Individuals traffic is not what is valuable to the current Reddit management. Good AI training data is what is valuable and this is not good AI training data.
The ultimate Troll love for posters would be to include ALT-text descriptions of the photos which are completely irrelevant. This will (of course) inconvenience the blind community, but if they are only photos of sexy John Oliver, it wouldn’t be much of an inconvenience.
Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.
I thought so too. Such a big default sub is pretty useless.
You didn’t like “I haven’t beaten my wife in 6 days!” With a picture of a thumbs up, no face or anything?
This is actually the reason I’m here on Lemmy now. I love John Oliver but with all the other dark subreddits it was a bit much, and already had been looking into it. Led to Lemmy by too much sexy John Oliver.
like porn, sexy John Oliver pics are the gateway to Satan.
Every time you view a John Oliver pic, God kills a kitten.
Who is this god person anyway?
Oh, so we have a way to deal with the wild house cat population destroying birds.
On my way to post sexy feet pics because nobody’s seen John Oliver’s sexy feet, or have they…
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Er… Whut
Well then, there’s still no entry for John Oliver there.
Not sure whether or not it’s a good thing.
Cataloguing? Er… Like people are sorting celebs’ feet by size, color, shape and whatever else? I don’t know how to respond to that…
Stupid sexy Oliver!
“I want to see a sexy picture of John Oliver.” “We have a sexy picture of John Oliver at home.” Sexy picture of John Oliver at home: Adam Driver
Hey now, that’s Adam Driver slander
The only rational way to be upset would be if you were dead set on the steamy John Oliver exposure! I just had to do a role-reversal of John and the man whose foot was on his neck for over a season, daddy Driver.
Glorious :) I hope John Oliver picks this up in his show…
Plot twist: John Oliver is secretly a mod of r/pics.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was. That’s totally in character for him :)
the writers are still on strike. don’t know where they are in the negotiation process.
Can’t wait for that first episode after the strike though. It’s going to be glorious, I just know it!
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This may be the best highlight of spez incompetence 🍿 For everyone talking smack on the moderators, this is exactly what they should be doing. Malicious compliance. Make it hard for Reddit to know what is going on. Love to see it.
archive.ph link for those who don’t want to give reddit traffic.
30,052,708 John Oliver Enthusiasts - Lolol
Btw I edited my post to link to your link instead
Thanks, didn’t think of that!
Glad you posted this - its the epitome of malicious compliance! And a fantastic form of protest too. With Reddit admins threatening to demote mods unless they re-open subreddits, this move takes away that ammo. Additionally, after the initial boost in activity due to novelty, the sub will get stale quickly and users will think of migrating to other platforms like lemmy or kbin. I’m all for it!
Edit: This is what I’m talking about. Here is one of those Reddit refugees now!
https://lemmy.world/comment/273363
Welcome, @[email protected]!
Thanks! It still feels weird, I had my account for a long time and have a fair amount of karma, but the site has been going to shit for a while and enough is enough. This feels like the very early web or fidonet and I’m stoked to be here.
Looks like a few other subs have joined. r/gifs and r/art did the same poll
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
Unfortunately, no new LWT episodes until the Writer’s Strike is settled…
That’s probably the goal.
Why John Oliver and noone else though?
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.
I’d argue that what John Oliver does is more legitimately political than the “focus on politics” horse-race bullshit the other shows have.
I’ve never been so happy to browse old.reddit /r/pics with an ad-blocker on.
