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!

Hypersapien,

r/InternetIsBeautiful

DocMcStuffin,
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archive.ph link for those who don't want to give reddit traffic.

LenticularTorsion,

Btw I edited my post to link to your link instead

LenticularTorsion,

Thanks, didn't think of that!

demvoter,
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30,052,708 John Oliver Enthusiasts - Lolol

tallwookie,
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fucking lol!!!! big ol thumb to the eye of the High SlimeLord himself, /u/spez

CynAq,
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spez can go suck a bag of musk dicks.

screamin,

Musk is such a good flavour though... I used to buy a buck's worth of musk sticks for the train ride home... don't debase musk flavour for that sad ween

xc2215x,

Truly brilliant. I give tons of credit.

LenticularTorsion,

Wonder who came up with the idea.

EcstaticHumility,
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Well, the people have spoken 😂

LenticularTorsion,

The mods are just doing what people want, innit? This is perfect!

TheRealJefe,

Spez really should have read r/maliciouscompliance a bit before he bit off more than he could chew

CookieJarObserver,
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Spez is peak r/choosingbeggars wanting free work to be done but oh, not with your own tools that actually work, no you need the ones that are inside his Basement for the last 10 years and barely work at all.

eee,

That's how billionaires make their money isn't it? Get everyone to pay them while they themselves pay others as little as possible.

LenticularTorsion,

A-fucking-men

personalife,

Now this is the definition of malicious compliance!

LenticularTorsion,

This sure as hell is!

c2h6,

Genius! I wish every other sub did this.

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

some others are - check out /r/gifs and /r/showerthoughts

c2h6,

Oh lol cool!

c2h6,

Hahaha I hope this catches on, it's funny as hell

00Lemming,
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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.

seeCseas,

oh my god i love this. it would be a shame if all other subs followed suit...

Alue42, (edited )

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.

ewe,
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/14b5i8h/poll_vote_for_rshowerthoughts_hours_of_operation/

Here for those who still have accounts to show their solidarity. That is not close!

dystop,
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/r/gifs is doing what /r/pics did.

IBNobody,
@IBNobody@kbin.social avatar

/r/pics is now too sexy to browse.

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

needs to be marked as NSFW.

coldv,

Lol very nicely done!

SlowNPC,
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I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Absolutely brilliant.

dystop,
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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.

xc2215x,

Love this from the mods.

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