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Malicious Compliance on Reddit in a nutshell (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: comment thread in r/interestingasfuck stating that it has not become a 'porn sub'. It only for nsfw because they also do malicious compliance.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The list of maliciously compliant subs that reopened is inspiring

/nofans (previously a nsfw sub) now dedicated to air cooled PC
/shitposting now banning all posts with the letter “k”
/horny (obvious what this was) is now a Christian Minecraft server

Ahhhh, democracy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

/memes is only allowing memes that mention “landed,” “gentry,” or “medieval.”
/iOS seems to be NSFW shitposts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Amazing. You love to see it

[–] ion 12 points 2 years ago

r/art is only allowing posts of John Oliver “looking artsy” r/WellThatSucks is only posts of vacuum cleaners now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

as fun as all this is, it's counterproductive.

Right now it's only giving spez a lot of extra traffic from people wanting to be creative and people wanting to see the shit storm. If people keep enjoying literal subs with shit posts, he doesn't care as long as he gets traffic and users before the IPO

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I say it's super productive. People go to Reddit because others have already done the work to vote the best content for consumption. For majority of Reddit users who just passively consume info (and maybe vote), seeing John instead of cats will significantly reduce their interest in Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm really glad I can come here for cats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed that it’s probably not productive for reducing traffic. That being said, I think the novelty will wear off.

Also, this whole situation is just amplifying the protest’s message (landed gentry lol). His 180° decision to threaten the removal of protesting mods just boosts my favorite internet phenomenon - the Streisand effect!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Plus, it may hurt the public offerings - Investors don't like uncertainty, and seeing that the users may at any point completely alter a subreddit could make them skittish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

But if the sub is NSFW there aren't any ads shown. So it's really a lot of traffic, but no income.