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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LenticularTorsion@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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!

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[-] dystop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Plenty@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[-] minimar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is this real?! What episode is it from!

[-] LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

yes, it's real. it's from the episode on coal from june 2017: https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8?t=1443

[-] minimar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, probably my favourite episode! I've never been a big fan of john oliver purely because I find him aggressively unfunny, but showing everyone the ridiculous cease and desist letter with "Let us neither cease, nor desist" is amazing.

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[-] concealmint@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Incredible move. But I doubt it'll last. Reddit is going to became 9gag and iFunny very soon. Rest in peace old reddit. It was fun while it lasted.

[-] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The point is to hit reddit where it hurts - ad revenue. There will be a slight spike in interests as people laugh, then the lack of original content will cause people to be bored. New subreddits will have to be created and built from the ground up. Moderating a subreddit with 40m subscribers is hard.

Spez needs to realize that going to war with the users is a dumb move.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

He will not realize that, because he wants money and he'll get it. On the one hand, Reddit was fun. On the other hand, it's archaic for the reasons we're experiencing right now. Progress.

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[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I visited 9gag last week for the firdt time in maybe 8 years...wow the boomer humour and aggressive bigotry rivals Facebook

[-] girthero@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Wow you ain't kidding! Its White nationalist this, and White nationalist that! They're going to replace us! /s

[-] tom42@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NSA_Server_04@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Absolutely crushing the direction they chose.

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rogue_General@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world!

[-] exixx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] slackdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Glorious :) I hope John Oliver picks this up in his show...

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

the writers are still on strike. don't know where they are in the negotiation process.

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[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

r/debatereligion requires all posts to be in Latin, same spirit.

[-] Henrik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fantastic! Really good idea from the mod team.

[-] Senseibu@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Update on the vote results, for people who don't want to go there:

  • Pro John Oliver: 61.7k

  • Return to normal: -13.7k.

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[-] Badger@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 #the_donald alone to grow in scope. Fuck Spez

[-] seeCseas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] harbo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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