maliciouscompliance

This is a story from my dad....

Great work by the mods. They maliciously comply with reddit by posting an open letter reminding subscribers to tag NSFW appropriately on their content and especially point out that if folks forgot to do this then this will force them under reddit's own existing rules to go NSFW.

[REPOST]...

How do you properly conjugate "Reddit" in Latin? First, you need to know if the proper noun, "Reddit", is male or female and base the conjugation of the verbs in the sentence on its gender , just as in Spanish or French. Reddito? As in "Carthago Delenda Est"? At first, it seemed easy to just use "Reddito", since Carthage was a...

Some exceptions seems to be accepted as long as it involves Wales and France (Wales being Pays de Galles in French).

That applies to newcomers too. For example, if you want to lock a thread, simply comment "!lock".

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Moderators flood feeds with pictures of TV comic as they fight owners’ plans to go public

So in just one week, we’ve grown to >7k subscribers (~5.3k on lemmy.world and ~1.2k from the next 5 largest instances), which is way more than I expected....

So this is a tiny and very mild malicious compliance on both mine and a neighbour's part. Might be boring for not-cat-owners (or most people) to read....

Here's a shorter story of malicious compliance, again from when I was working front desk at a value/budget motel....

Here's the mod post:...

[REPOST] Many years ago, I worked at a car dealership. The attached service garage was small and I was the only licensed mechanic....

The Subreddit WellThatSucks has changed their rules so it's now only accepting vaccume cleaners

I'm sure someone was complying maliciously here, but I'm not sure who....

The choice is between "John Oliver, Chiijohn, and their lookalikes bein adorable" and returning to normal.

The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....