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!

cura,
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Malicious compliance from both the mods and the users! I dust off my account to upvote it.

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

theUnlikely,

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

mtnwolf,
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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)_/¯

Remontoire,
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Ahh brilliant.

LillianVS,
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This is the way, we did it... - u/spez

LittleKerr,
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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,
@dystop@lemmy.world avatar

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,
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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!

puck2,

Awesome!

atypicaloddity,

I love democracy

CarolinaBlues,

Spezmusk would classify this as an act of the landed gentry!

IBNobody,
@IBNobody@kbin.social avatar

/r/pics is now too sexy to browse.

dystop,
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needs to be marked as NSFW.

peroleu,

Sexy pics of John Oliver is better than 90% of the stuff posted there anyways. Glad to see them sticking it to Reddit, though.

GreatBigJerk,
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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!

NSA_Server_04,

Absolutely crushing the direction they chose.

Shell,

Aahahaha this is hilarious

Hypersapien,

r/InternetIsBeautiful

Henrik,

Fantastic! Really good idea from the mod team.

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