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·
    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.

  • harbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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?

    • Alue42@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.

    • NotYourSocialWorker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year 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.

      • lich_hegemon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year 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.

  • Moskie@lemmy.worldBEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think this is a good idea. The point of the blackout is to hit Reddit where it hurts, by driving traffic down. This prank (partially) reverses the work of the blackout, by getting people back to the pics subreddit to post and see (John Oliver) pics. It turns the blackout into a joke. And I think is a step towards the community just moving on from the blackout without it actually having the long term effects that were intended.

    I’m all for malicious compliance, but I think this is the wrong flavor of it.

    • andobando@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Nah I disagree. Turning things less serious is not necessarily a bad thing. People will visit to check it out but long term it will get stale and die off.

  • geoffervescent@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    /r/gifs currently is following suit! If you still have a reddit account go vote ASAP! (Also unsubscribe from all your “business as usual” subs as possible, immediately, if you can’t delete your account immediately for whatever reason)

    • theusualuser@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Took a peek and it doesn’t look like there’s any recent posts on /r/gifs ? Like, sort by new and everything other that 5 reddit is killing itself posts is at least 19 days old. What’s up with that?