337 points

I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny

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Yeah, I find protesting Reddit by using Reddit to be incredibly stupid. Just leave and don’t touch it at all, if their user metrics and site traffic are so low, then they’re just gonna lose their advertisers, which is probably one of their main sources of income.

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5 points

This is the way

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27 points

Honorable mention to the people giving shooting star awards (you know, the EXPENSIVE one) to all of the comments on /r/place. Sure did show them there didn’t you!

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17 points

Some people were premium subscribers for years. They probably just used their accumulated coins since they’re being taken away soon.

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26 points

You have to use the mobile app too. This is purely a stunt to get app adoption.

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The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.

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260 points

No, I’m sure that’s a “silent majority” of users who support everything that Reddit The Company does banding together to stamp out the minority of noisy rabble-rousers. /s

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62 points

Sure, the silent majority of spez’s accounts

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8 points

The guy must be on some serious copium rx with all things going down

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122 points

I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?

All the pixels came in at the same time

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13 points

Probably a bit then

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If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It’s clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.

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75 points

Wasn’t an admin caught doing something similar last time place came around?

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102 points

Random pixels? At this time of Reddit? In this part of r/place? Localized entirely on spez’s head?

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7 points

I’m sure it was just by chance.

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Oh, we can all agree it’s not random at this point…

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It’s the Admins, the new pixels don’t have any usernames attached to them.

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3 points

Who else? Seriously… Who else?

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Literally anyone with 20 bots.

There is tremendous value in pursuing evidence for the things we believe, rather than spending life totally convinced that our first assumption is always the truth

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That’s how it has always been for all places. Admins have the power to erase anything that goes against Reddit’s ToS. Depicting spez under the guillotine is against their ToS, but writing “fuck spez” isn’t, which is why one gets deleted and the other remains.

It makes sense IMO. It’s just like admins having the power to erase swastikas, homophobic or transphobic content, blatant product advertisements and so on. Nothing wrong with it, IMO.

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They didnt depict him being decapitated, but his Snoo (i believe those are called Snoos) being decapitated. I think those are two entirely different things, especially given the french revolution theme around it.

Admins are being pussies imo. (After making a very bad decision in returning /r/place) They are of course fully within their right to, and that’s why reddit sucks.

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30 points

Writing “spez” on the face of the alien was probably a mistake if they didn’t want to get censored.

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It’s just like admins having the power to erase swastikas

Do you think they’ll do this one day? Didn’t Canada spend the entire time trying to un-swastika their flag last time, or am I misremembering?

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Canada spent the whole time trying to draw the maple leaf. At one point their whole flag got banana’d.

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14 points

I don’t know, I’m seeing a pretty large and blatant product advert on there for Boner Kebab right now.

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9 points

Reddit is pro-advertisers now, so not an issue!

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4 points

Surprised they’re not selling blatant product advertisements for it!

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2 points

Give it a few more hours

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It was expected

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I didn’t know you could up/downvote on imgur. I wonder where all the downvotes came from…

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lol yes there’s a whole underground imgur social network full of users unaware that imgur was originally just an image hosting website for reddit. By default the images I uploaded were private but I decided to click the button to make them a public post just out of curiousity of what imgur’s opinion on the matter might be. Turns out it’s not interesting for them.

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It was hilariously bizarre when it was discovered that a population of mole people had been living inside reddit’s image host for some period of time. Especially since they were were getting up in arms about how much reddit content was crowding up the site.

Wonder what life’s like in there these days.

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If this was being done over lemmy with lemmy.word admin name in it, would it be censored?

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11 points

Come on man, that’s Ruud.

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6 points

That’s comparing apples and community centers; people would just leave and block this instance.

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21 points

That’s some bullshit right there. Thanks for capturing it.

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7 points

Quebec still representing on Reddit is ironic and embarrassing.

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3 points

Again, this is why the correct protest should have been to make everything Black or White.

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35 points

Based.

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And guillotine-pilled

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based

Tubular.

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105 points

It’s also being griefed using obvious bots. Every 30 seconds or so the entire blade gets blocked out by a perfect checkerboard pattern done all at once. Or a perfect square will get whited out. Either spez is directing it or some reddit fanboy is defending his honor with a bot army

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That’s the moderators of place doing that.

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I consider r/place mods and spez to be the same group. I really just mean that it could be either an official action by reddit-affiliated person or could be bots run by someone who just dickrides spez, just trying to disclaim that obvious manipulation doesn’t necessarily mean it’s reddit’s doing.

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For every person who rides spez’s dick there’s a hundred that hate him. There would be more bots drawing things.

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The placed pixels don’t have a username associated with them. The bot drawings are done with obviously fake accounts, but each pixel still has an account.

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I’m willing to bet the moderators of r/place aren’t doing it/are glad it’s taking this direction and/or the former mods of r/place were removed by cum-guzzling bootlicking admins who are now forcefully whitewashing reddit users’ contributions.

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70 points

Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.

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Just waiting for my ban for placing a pixel there, tbh.

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56 points

Oh no, if they ban me I’d lose all my precious reddit coins

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I don’t know if you saw, but they’re removing this functionality anyway. So all your coins will be absorbed or deleted or whatever after September 31st iirc

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20 points

I did see that, was trying to make a bad joke :-)

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6 points

Can’t engage with the site if they block me from engaging with it.

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