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!

  • dystop@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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.

    • NotYourSocialWorker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text “Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal”.

      The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn’t representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.

      • solarvector@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It would exacerbate the swing but wouldn’t change the result

        And I don’t think maliciously compliant mod is interested in statistical representation.

      • lich_hegemon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Let’s assume that everyone who upvoted their option also downvoted the alternative.

        The group A, has |A| number of individuals. Group B has |B| number.

        Option A: |A| - |B|
Option B: |B| - |A|

Option A = |A| - |B| 
         = -(-(|A| - |B|))
         = -(|B| - |A|)
         = -Option B

        The results would be opposites of each other and would highlight the opinion of the majority anyway.

  • harbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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?

    • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Now videos should do the same but with rick astly…“you know the rules and so do I”

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      And then people will go check it out.

      Ironic engagement is still engagement.

      • dystop@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I personally think the best “maliciouscompliance” act mods can do in the long term is to switch up all the subs.

        So technology will be used for gardening, gardening will be used for android, android will be used for coffee, coffee used for pcgaming, etc. It’ll make everything really confusing for new users and help slow their growth.

        • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          No this all seems too clever by half and is just putting more eyes on Reddit. People are drawn to drama. If mods were serious, they’d delete or pull all of their custom plug ins and delete their accounts. Let Reddit have the subs. Unfortunately a huge number of mods won’t actually endanger their positions, which means Reddit corporate has the ultimate leverage in the end. Just go. I respect the mods who have left. If more of them did it would leave a true void.

          Image being Reddit corporate and waking up tomorrow and 5000 subreddits were open but all the mods and their mods tools were gone. No big dramatic pranks or drama from the mods, just a classy exit.

          • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            i agree. this is kind of a temper tantrum coming from the mods that will result in more eyes on reddit… the only way to win, is to not play.

            • girthero@lemmy.oneEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              How about sexy John Oliver promoting Lemmy? Make reddit delete the post instead of the mods.

  • TheRealJefe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

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

    • CookieJarObserver@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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

  • exixx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This is actually the reason I’m here on Lemmy now. I love John Oliver but with all the other dark subreddits it was a bit much, and already had been looking into it. Led to Lemmy by too much sexy John Oliver.

  • thedarkfly@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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.