POLL: Decide on the future of /r/Pics!
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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...

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!

  • plazman30@lemmy.worldEnglish
    307·
    1 year ago

    Both are bad choices. When reddit says open /r/pics or else, you just delete /r/pics.

    Reddit has NEVER been profitable. It’s the classic:

    1. Takes a bunch of venture capital funding
    2. Builds a huge user base
    3. Get bought
    4. Parent company tries to figure out a way to make money off of you.
    5. When they can’t, they try to spin you off and IPO you.
    6. You have your “oh shit” moment and realize you actually have to be profitable now.

    This is the crap that caused the dot-com bubble in the late 90s.

    Their current business model is unsustainable.

    They’re doing the API war out of sheer survival.

    The sad part is, we all went along for the ride, using the service and filling it with useful information, never wondering if it was still going to be there a decade or two later.

    Reddit wants to IPO. Having gone through the IPO process twice now with a company, I can tell you, the only thing that matters is money in the bank. The more money you have in the bank, the more you can charge for your IPO. When I worked at CompUSA back in the 90s, we didn’t pay any of our creditors for something like 6 months before the IPO to swell the bank accounts. I remember the week before the IPO, we had almost nothing in the store, because we owed everyone money. 30 days after IPO, trucks came rolling in again with product.

      • n3rding@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        1 year ago

        This unfortunately is the truth, at the end of the day they will just find new moderators who wont be acting for the users or at least the majority. I’m a mod and although I want this to work and it may still have some impact realistically mods are powerless. Only users talking with their feet can really make a long term difference and there isn’t a like for like replacement yet…

          • n3rding@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Really we don’t want to force users off, we want users to want to leave because of how reddit treats it’s free labour and content or for reddit to actually work with the subs it’s demonizing

    • Rogue_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      Both are bad choices. When reddit says open /r/pics or else, you just delete /r/pics.

      Hard disagree with your first sentence. As @Starmina@lemm.ee explained, Reddit would just force re-open it.

      And as explained in my comment, this is causing Reddit users to switch over to Lemmy due to the protesting subs getting stale: https://lemmy.world/comment/289241>

    • heliumlake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Wow, I totally forgot about CompUSA. I used to love going there as a kid, back when Apple had that underdog appeal. Now I’m a FOSS maxi (just don’t look at my iPhone…).

      • plazman30@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This change sucks. But, from what I read, Reddit have NEVER been profitable. If they were smart, they would modified the API so it included ads. I don’t think Reddit is long for this world. Even if these protests were effective, reddit is eventually going away. They’re too big to make a profit now.