r/aww holding a vote on malicious compliance

Malicious Compliance@lemmy.world – 322 points – 1 years ago

The choice is between "John Oliver, Chiijohn, and their lookalikes bein adorable" and returning to normal.

A bunch of subs have been asking their users the same thing - some don’t have the scores hidden and “return to normal” was losing in all of them when I voted!

Its a good idea to screenshot any you come across in case they change later there is evidence of tampering

/r/pics was originally hidden, I think just because they were new comments. I check after a few hours and it was like 34k upvotes for john and like -8k on the return to normal comment.

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They really should do these polls on a platform reddit can't mess with the results of. Like just link to an external poll in the thread.

No no, the CEO of Reddit who was definitely not caught altering other user's comments and altering vote numbers would never consider altering the vote count on these polls. Certainly not. Definitely not.

The real malicious compliance would be to move the community to lemmy.

I'm so changing the vote scores if I'm a reddit admin. Just saying.

They should really have used a polling site off Reddit to avoid that, but then, I suppose that if Reddit honestly got caught fiddling the scores -- like, say, a huge instant jump at the end -- that would be pretty catastrophic from a PR standpoint for the admins doing it.

that would be pretty catastrophic from a PR standpoint for the admins doing it.

After all the bad PR L's Reddit has been taking lately, I feel like they'd just add it to the pile. They clearly don't care about anything other than money at this point.