While this is funny, I think this will actually increase traffic to the Reddit, hence increase ad revenue?
Unless they put a link to go somewhere else for the content users are actually looking for to redirect traffic, I don’t think this will do a whole lot.
I think the options were this or the mod gets removed and "normal" operations resumes.So I prefer this.
The ad revenue boost is going to be temporary, obviously. A. Subreddit that just posts vacuum cleaner pictures is not going to maintain people's interest.
Any investors with two brain cells to rub together would see that Reddit is not in a healthy state with subreddits doing these things. So if they are looking to sell, this will do a lot of damage.
Yeah I like the idea of sidestepping the mod dethronings by reddit, but I've seen in practice it just makes the subs more popular until the idea looses steam. People want to be a part of the meme and it makes the subs busy as hell, not really wreck them. It's malicious compliance that still gives users reasons to engage with Reddit and even log on to check stuff.
I'm not sure. I mean you enter once to see the gimmick, maybe twice to post something and make the joke. But that's it. The subreddit content that millions of people seeked everyday is still gone, and people is not really going to keep frequenting those plsces with regularity until the content is back.
It all depends on how long can they keep the strike before being overthrow by reddit admins. A few months of vaccum cleaners or John Oliver pics and those subreddits would be generating a fraction of their original traffic.
I give Reddit two years left with how things are going. Most of the active community will be moving on by the end of this year. All this protest in action will definitely hurt their chances to IPO successfully. Even if they backtrack on their API promise, it's much too late. The damage is done. I hope spez thanks Elon Musk for the amazing business inspiration.
Probably, but the biggest user decline is happening right as we speak. Unless Reddit makes other "amazing" changes after this, the people that stick with Reddit now will likely just stay there.
This is all a reminder that Reddit was never anything special - the people on it were. The trending of malicious compliance by moderators to an abusive CEO really highlights how exceptional people can be. This whole following corrupt rules thing in a way that just lets the corruption burn itself out is fucking beautiful.
...it's like a captain going down with the ship, while cracking Chuck Norris jokes all the way to the grave. This is what the internet was made for.
Steve really is something. Imagine thinking you can pick a fight with the internet and win. That is perhaps the most delusional thought any person can ever have.
This is a summation of capitalism in general. The people at top think they are the captains of industry We just need to keep reminding ourselves that those of us down in the hulls, rowing the ships and cracking jokes and memes to keep ourselves going are the ones that keep these rotting hulks sailing.
I thought it was funny, I saw it as: big boobs equals much milk. I normally don't like to shame people for their sense of humor. Of course, there are some exceptions.
In the interest of transparency - I'm leaving this up for now because it's not illegal:
Sexualising the baby would be considered rule-breaking and the comment removed, but that isn't the case here
Sexualising the act of breastfeeding (which some people think this comment does - but it's not unanimous) is perhaps in poor taste, but not illegal in itself.
Expressing a preference for, uh, certain physical traits is fine, although that may again be viewed as creepy by some people.
As mod, I'll remove posts that are illegal, discriminatory or harassing, and this post doesn't meet those criteria. Regardless, the downvotes here should be a signal that some people find this distasteful.
Feel free to upvote/downvote this post if you agree or disagree. The decision above was made based on my own evaluation, but I'll use the vote spread on this comment as an indicator of whether the community prefers a stricter policy.
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