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Went out with a bang. Absolutely worth it. I had to delete my account myself, what a hassle.
They permanently banned my 9yo account with 2 million karma for using the "boxes of Liberty" metaphor in a highly up voted comment about Republicans taking away access to voting. They said it was a threat of violence. π Meanwhile fascists make literal death threats in conservative subs with no consequences.
The site has systematically been banning high volume contributors who aren't right wing enough for at least the last 3 months. They, like Twitter, are trying to suppress the voices of people who are against fascism. It is deliberate and planned.
Not to be conspiratorial, but this is an aspect I've pondered that hasn't gotten much discussion: given spez's fanboy emulation of Musk, we could see Reddit become a lot more right-wing as those voices are the ones allowed to continue, like-minded mods are put in place, etc...which means those folks gain yet another messaging platform. It's not great.
They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.
βReport abuseβ for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insaneβ¦ unless you want plenty of active bots.
I got the exact same treatment for "report abuse" for reporting a comment copying bot. Like, ok. If you want Reddit to be nothing but spam bots parroting each other, have at it
Hot. (But could you mark NSFW? Thanks. Nearly creamed myself in the office)
Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover!
That was among the AI prompts used. :)
Yeah, it's because of the messed up leg, the rule clearly stated only "Sexy Pictures of John Oliver", not "Eldrich abomination that looks like John Oliver".
I mean...yea. You damn near broke the internet with this.
What a perfect way to go. Incredible. Your account died with honor!
What an absolutely chad way to go out. Honestly I'm jealous.
Farewell to your ancient Reddit account.
o7
Of course they suspended you! You can't sell beef jerky, diapers, and car insurance with naked Photoshops of John Oliver.
I mean.... I'd buy Jerky if that's how they advertised it :P
Big "Gentlemen, it has been an honor to serve with you all," energy.
Congratulations!
Thanks, I was honestly a little shocked to see the alert, as it had gotten a bunch of upvotes on /r/pics, but what a way to go out, I guess.
Does anyone else have a craving to eat a peach right now?
Worth it!
Totally worth it. What a way to go.
Lmao they banned you for that? Thatβs incredibly legendary of you.
@ivanafterall I love everything about this - the picture, the subreddit rules, and the way you went out. Brava/o!
Well you certainly went out on a high note!
How dare they. This is art!
@ivanafterall they are now actively banning folks for using the pictures subreddit as intended? good grief.
I'm not gay, but I'm starting to have doubts. π€
I have the theory that everyone has some degree of bi/pansexuality. Maybe we are the Star Trek mirror universe after all.
This is just blessed content.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
They really are losing it over there.
i wonder what john thinks of becoming this protest's dark horse? lol
What he's said so far: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120
Well that's fucking hilarious
what a way to go o7
I'm OOTL, what's the joke here?
Several image themed subreddits voted to change their rules so that only "sexy" pictures of Jon Oliver were allowed. (in practice, any picture of Jon Oliver) It was intended as a form of protest against subreddits receiving threats from the admins to have their head mod role transferred to any mod who was willing to reopen the sub.
This one was apparently too sexy for the Reddit admins to handle...
Basically reddit admins said they will remove mods that don't open the subs back up.
Mods opened the subs and took a poll.
A) open like normal
B) only allows submissions of sexy John Oliver.
I think r/pics and r/gifs both did that. Not sure about any others. The vehement majority voted only sexy John Oliver posts.
So now the subreddits are technically open. And posts like this are what are filling them.
I saw that r/WellThatSucks is only doing posts about vacuums now.
/r/aww and /r/art are now both John Oliver. /r/steam is focusing on water vapor.
r/piracy is starting on sexy pirate John Oliver pics tomorrow. The poll is on now, anyway, and I'm assuming it will go John's way.
Lots of subreddits are being forced / threatened to open back up so that Spez can fix his IPO valuation and stop these mean mean moderators from hurting his feelings
Some subreddits are opening up and changing their rules so that only specific exact content is being allowed. For example the r/steam subreddit for the steam gaming platform is now discussing literal steam, the idea being that the subreddit is open but it's either a joke or crap content
It's a good enough solution, opening these things in name only and forcefully moderating thing to ensure the conversation and engagement is boring, there's not much else mods can do when admins are being a bunch of dicks.
thank you for your sacrifice
That is absolutely fucking hilarious! Well done! What an exit!