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!

LightDelaBlue,
@LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world avatar

also the case on r/piracy

cfx_4188,
@cfx_4188@kbin.social avatar

You have confirmed my words. Moderators consider themselves "nobility" who have the right to make decisions for the rest of the cattle. That was the point of the "protest.

Kissaki,

I have no idea how you can come to this conclusion. It stands directly opposite to the text.

They made a vote. And acted upon it. How is that "making decisions for others"?

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

The "cattle" were asked if they wanted to resume business as usual. They overwhelmingly voted no.

darkstar,

Just did my part and posted a sexy John Oliver image

Badger,
@Badger@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Amazing work as always! Though I did have to check it out kind of defeating the purpose of the protest. I think the best way to achieve what they want is to just do a really shitty job in moderating. Let the entire site be over-run with scams / crypto bros / nazis.

Squizzy,

It already is, /r/all used to be current and now it's just a constant stream of spam posts.

You should be able to block a webpage and all users that share it. Relay For Reddit has a feature where you can select "other conversations" and see all the posts of a specific link. If I could then block everyone who posted a shitty "Elon runs an ETH competition" post... There'd still be a millions others.

Nazis everywhere, Spez left alone to grow in scope. Fuck Spez

seeCseas,

It already is, /r/all used to be current and now it’s just a constant stream of spam posts.

and that's the whole point of this!

eatham,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

I can't find r/all

Squizzy,

And this will become the same if it catches on, either it will die slowly or remain very niche or it will be victim to the same shit as reddit.

Reddit was astroturfed and spammed and that doesn't seem like something the fediverse can fight any better.

NSA_Server_04,

Absolutely crushing the direction they chose.

tom42,
@tom42@lemmy.one avatar

What a fantastic, creative and constructive reaction. Respect for the mods!

theUnlikely,

This is great. Tomorrow I'll see what I can do with stable diffusion.

mtnwolf,
@mtnwolf@lemmy.world avatar

I think their rules specifically say no AI pics.

seeCseas,

the only rule that matters now is John Oliver only.

theUnlikely,

I think that was before this John Oliver thing. Since the subreddit rule also says no screenshots, but the post even says screenshots of him are fine. So we'll see ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Steak,

hahaha that's brilliant

slackdrift,

“John Oliver Supports the Reddit Protests’ Use of his Image” - https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/reddit-protests-john-oliver-pics.html

Rawrkrite,

This is AWFUL— now I want to go to Reddit 🥲

nothacking,

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