All posts on r/pics and r/gifs must now be about comedian and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after users voted.
It’s funny, but I don’t quite get the point of this. If you are boycotting Reddit then you shouldn’t be going there to post about things. If you ARE going there, you are no longer boycotting. Reddit doesn’t care what you post about. You are still participating in the site. It’s just driving traffic back to Reddit, which harms the cause.
I think the decision to only post pictures of John is helping reddit. Its funny, the pictures are great, its drama-full and happening on reddit. Sorry I wish it wasn’t but I think this is good for reddit.
I kinda agree, as funny as this is.
Now if anyone ACTUALLY wants to not help Reddit, upload a gig or 5 of just noise just playing in a video and cause the site to crash: apparantly some folks on Twitter are doing so, with instructions
I would prefer a peaceful revolution, no need to DDOS them. I prefer to take the moral high ground and let the community figure out for itself how much they care about the content they produce, and which platform is most appropriate to retain control. There might always be a place for Reddit, but if they want draconian control let it be over data they produce.
Fair enough. I can respect your opinion even tho I don’t necessarily agree that a peaceful revolution is the way to go here (to be clear, I’m not saying that peaceful protests aren’t effective and don’t have thier place, they absolutely do. I just personally don’t think people like Spez or Musk will listen to one. They seem to be the type that need to be sat down and made to listen)
Although who knows…some people are commenting here that this is going to drive value for Reddit down if it keeps going, and if that’s the case, I’d say “keep painting Reddit John Oliver”…but the point is to not stop until this is no longer something that’ll just “blow over”.
Yes and no. It’s driving traffic but it also denies companies the ability to post their content in related subs and – once the initial amusement dies down – will probably result in lower utilization.
I feel like the ONLY way this could work is if all the big subs collectively agreed to go this route. As it stands though, you’re still giving Reddit traffic.
The point is to make the site less useful and thus drive users off of it.
Admins have made the point that subs will be opened whether the mods like it or not. But mods can still control the topics of subreddits.
Thus now the rules are changing to make the frontpage stale and drive people off of Reddit. Already /r/pics has mysteriously fallen off of /r/all.
