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!

EcstaticHumility,
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Well, the people have spoken 😂

LenticularTorsion,

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

FrostBolt,
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This is glorious 🤣

Aaron-Davis363,
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As a fan of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, I love this idea.

seeCseas,

I do wanna hear what John Oliver has to say about this.

kiwifoxtrot,
@kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world avatar

I've never been so happy to browse old.reddit /r/pics with an ad-blocker on.

rgb_leds_are_love,

Absolutely glorious! 😂😂

xc2215x,

Truly brilliant. I give tons of credit.

LenticularTorsion,

Wonder who came up with the idea.

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.

Ashlexa,

This is amazing!

xc2215x,

Love this from the mods.

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

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.

LittleKerr,
@LittleKerr@lemmy.world avatar

The people has spoken. I love democracy

athos77,

I am now desperately sad that the Writer's Guild strike is still on, because I'd love to see John Oliver's response to this. Particularly the bit where they added in something like, "This means that almost every image of John Oliver is permitted, because John Oliver is always sexy".

dystop,
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is Last Week Tonight still airing with the writer's strike going on? I watch it sometimes but don't keep up with the schedules.

UntiedShoes,

It's on hiatus while the writer's strike continues

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

Ah. Shame but I understand.

seeCseas,

didn't spez want democracy? He said he was going to allow people to vote out mods lol. You want democracy, you get it!

SlowNPC,
@SlowNPC@kbin.social avatar

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

RomeCallen,

that is really fkn funny

kadu,
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/r/apple could've only allowed discussions about fruit.

But instead they decided to return to normal operations - they're in the group of mods unreasonably afraid of losing their position as mods, which is honestly quite bizarre.

I understand building a community and wanting to keep at it (I moderated 3 large Brazilian subreddits) but at this point, you just want the title - because you've already lost control, trust, and quality.

dystop,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

they’re in the group of mods unreasonably afraid of losing their position as mods, which is honestly quite bizarre

Not thaat bizarre. People like being in positions of power.

ergifruit,

you mean a subreddit made to bootlick a corporate entity is bootlicking a corporate entity? woah

JshKlsn,
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Mods of anything to do with Apple should be in most support. Spez specifically came after the developer of the most popular iOS app.

I guess they don't care as long as they can still put that they moderate a popular Apple subreddit on their resume lol

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

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