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!

darkstar,

Just did my part and posted a sexy John Oliver image

LightDelaBlue,
@LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world avatar

also the case on r/piracy

Senseibu,
@Senseibu@feddit.uk avatar

This is brilliant! I had just took a look at /r/pics without logging in and can see its just now filled with John Oliver pics

darkmugglet,

I haven't laughed this hard in so long. The malicious compliance is epic. John Oliver can't buy PR like this, and he has got to be one of the few people that can appreciate being the face of something like this.

exixx,

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.

rob_t_firefly,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

Stupid sexy Oliver!

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

like porn, sexy John Oliver pics are the gateway to Satan.

deviant,

On my way to post sexy feet pics because nobody's seen John Oliver's sexy feet, or have they...

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

You know, this reminds me there's a literal WikiFeet for cataloguing information and pictures of feet from celebrities and sub-celebrities.

I honestly can't decide if I like the internet or not.

LenticularTorsion,

Er.... Whut

megane_kun,
@megane_kun@lemmy.world avatar

Well then, there's still no entry for John Oliver there.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1dcc7ca0-3adf-4e60-8082-44258e7acdfb.png

Not sure whether or not it's a good thing.

seeCseas,

Cataloguing? Er... Like people are sorting celebs' feet by size, color, shape and whatever else? I don't know how to respond to that....

LenticularTorsion,

Every time you view a John Oliver pic, God kills a kitten.

not_woody_shaw,

Who is this god person anyway?

greybeard,

Oh, so we have a way to deal with the wild house cat population destroying birds.

JollyBrancher,
@JollyBrancher@lemmy.world avatar

"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

cats,
@cats@lemmy.world avatar

Hey now, that’s Adam Driver slander

JollyBrancher,
@JollyBrancher@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Rogue_General,
@Rogue_General@lemmy.world avatar

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, @exixx!

exixx,

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.

GreatBigJerk,
@GreatBigJerk@kbin.social avatar

I hope all the subs have a variation on this.

SpaceNoodle,

Hope in one bucket and shit in the other.

Let me know which one fills up first.

That being said: fuck /u/spez

LetterboxPancake,

Why a variation? What's wrong with sexy John Oliver?

Lichtblitz,

Nothing. Are you saying there is something wrong with badass John Oliver? Or with evil John Oliver? Stop typecasting him. He is more than just his sexy looks!

thedarkfly,

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.

raoulvolfoni,
@raoulvolfoni@kbin.social avatar

Look at the alternatives. It's either this kind of protest, or returning to normal operations or losing their sub.

Freesoftwareenjoyer,

Another alternative: redirect people here

c2h6,

Yeah they should have tried to get people out.

VoterFrog,

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.

AFKBRBChocolate,

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.

seeCseas,

the odds are stacked against the mods and the users, but any little bit of resistance is useful.

DrGunjah,

I think it will reduce traffic at some point, when the lurkers are getting tired of John Oliver pics

metaStatic,

who the fuck could ever get tired of that? idiots and losers that's who.

AnonStoleMyPants,

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

Senseibu,
@Senseibu@feddit.uk avatar

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

Nerogar,

Looks like a few other subs have joined. r/gifs and r/art did the same poll

Henrik,

Fantastic! Really good idea from the mod team.

harbo,

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?

redballooon,

I gotta go back to Reddit now. Haven’t been on /r/pics for years.

Shell,

Aahahaha this is hilarious

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.

LenticularTorsion,

I thought so too. Such a big default sub is pretty useless.

Idreamofcheesy,

You didn't like "I haven't beaten my wife in 6 days!" With a picture of a thumbs up, no face or anything?

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