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. 🙄 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.
The principals of capitalism align with their interests and perhaps their swing that direction could be seem as a defense mechanism against their better nature and any sort of guilt associated with their, what i consider, morally corupt actions.
They will. These people are trying to break up our means of communications. That’s why it’s important we get the word out about alternatives.
Hell, reddit was a friendly host for r/t_d for many years.
In their defense at that time subs like FULLCOMMUNISM were also around posting edgy memes where it wasn't always clear, if they jokingly or actually defended Stalins and Maos genocides.
Heck until 2018 or so there were subs about darknet markets where people rated the drugs and services sold there.
Somehow in my head I've always put the far left and the far right in the same boat.
They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.
“Report abuse” for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insane… 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
What's more, they'll ban any other account you make, if they can associate it with you (mainly IP but who knows what else).
The admins have been favoring the fash since forever.
Reddit is on a good trajectory to become voat.
I was temp suspended for suggesting an “untrainable” pit bull be euthanized instead of re-homing (local city sub)
Reason: threatening violence
I also got the reddit admin “please dont kill yourself” pm at the same time, speaking of report abuse…
Hot. (But could you mark NSFW? Thanks. Nearly creamed myself in the office)
On a Sunday?
I've sincerely tried several times and it won't stick, but I'll give it another go.
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 an absolutely chad way to go out. Honestly I'm jealous.
Farewell to your ancient Reddit account.
o7
What a perfect way to go. Incredible. Your account died with honor!
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.
Do you know who banned you? I certainly hope it wasn't an r/pics mod?
Suspensions are site-wide and are given by the admins of the site, not the moderators of a sub.
I feel even more honored.
It wasn't a subreddit ban, it's a Reddit-wide permanent suspension of my account, so I can't interact with the account in any meaningful way anymore. So I doubt it was anyone on /r/pics, but maybe. Presumably it came from somewhere on-high.
did your old comments and posts also get deleted?
Does anyone else have a craving to eat a peach right now?
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
What a truly fabulous way to go down though :P
That's nothing less than epic.
Worth it!
Lmao they banned you for that? That’s incredibly legendary of you.
Totally worth it. What a way to go.
@ivanafterall I love everything about this - the picture, the subreddit rules, and the way you went out. Brava/o!
Going out with a bang. We salute you.
It's so goddamned sexy... OP's goin' out with a bang while I'm going to bang one out.
How dare they. This is art!
Totally expect to see this in the next "last week tonight"
But where's his cabbage wife?
Well you certainly went out on a high note!
i wonder what john thinks of becoming this protest's dark horse? lol
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.
Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.
Not if I view them using those third party apps they apparently need to charge an arm and a leg for.
OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.
And I’m fine with them wanting to do that.
The protest was less about them wanting to charge a price, it’s that in a time frame of 6 months reportedly went from “the API won’t have changes anytime soon” to “we’re going to pivot to a paid API soon” to “we’re charging you advertiser rates per x million API requests, starting in a month, and you cannot supplement with your own ads”.
There was no time for these apps to adjust their pricing models. Most were on yearly subscription models or ad-driven. Having that large a pivot in the rules with no time to adapt the business model is just shitty partnership on Reddit’s part.
Also the fact that they were involving the third party app maintainers at all. There's no technical reason that REDDIT couldn't put the payment mechanisms in place to block USERS from making API calls through Oauth Apps. If you pay whatever subscription fee your account can make calls through whatever third party app you like.
But instead they decided that they were going to charge the APPS for some inane reason, and put figuring out a user-facing payment mechanism on those maintainers.
The point is that the sub will be dead in a few weeks, unless the admins double down again, wipe the whole mod team, and seize control to run it themselves or by admin-approved-mods or something. Which frankly as a billion-dollar company they probably should have done years ago in a more graceful manner for their dozen main subs like r/pics, but it yanks the veil off and makes the corporate power-grab super visible.
This is exactly what I'm thinking. I just stopped cold turkey.
what a way to go o7
@ivanafterall they are now actively banning folks for using the pictures subreddit as intended? good grief.
Perfect last post! I'm boycotting reddit but SO tempted to visit r/pics and witness the Jamie Oliververse
Lmao something funny about mixing up the Olivers there
I hope he sees this and does a segment on the whole thing!
Legend!
Bravo, you nearly made me spit my coffee out.
Well, I guess there is a way to delete all your comments on reddit: delete all your content, post this glorious picture, get permabanned before they restore your comments.
This might be the difference! I also got permabanned, and nothing of mine has come back yet!
Stamp it on the tombstone for the account, what a helluva way to go out.
Is this AI generated? Lmao this is amazing. Also Reddit admins suspended your account for this? That is overstepping A LOT. I think you deserve a Sexy John Oliver reward or something
Well they banned my account for calling out their dick sucking bots.
And the other 40+... Well thats a different story for a different day.
It looks like you broke the rule that doesn't allow porn.
They used the excuse that it's AI-generated porn--they called it "non-consensual" or something of the sort. As opposed to the people photoshopping his face onto things, I guess that's a line too far. And not a subreddit ban, mind you, a full on permanent account suspension across Reddit!
I'm pretty sure Oliver would consent. And ask for more.
Tbh you should send an email about this happening to Last Week Tonight.
I don't understand why this would constitute a permanent ban. Seen plenty of worse shit there
I think /r/pics mod staff were told that they would be replaced if they didn't go public again. So they changed the protest to only allowing sexy pictures of John Oliver? And presumably that escalated to the admins throwing a hissy.
Any part of this could be misinformed tho, I haven't been back on that site.
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. 🙄 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.
The principals of capitalism align with their interests and perhaps their swing that direction could be seem as a defense mechanism against their better nature and any sort of guilt associated with their, what i consider, morally corupt actions.
They will. These people are trying to break up our means of communications. That’s why it’s important we get the word out about alternatives.
Hell, reddit was a friendly host for r/t_d for many years.
In their defense at that time subs like FULLCOMMUNISM were also around posting edgy memes where it wasn't always clear, if they jokingly or actually defended Stalins and Maos genocides.
Heck until 2018 or so there were subs about darknet markets where people rated the drugs and services sold there.
Somehow in my head I've always put the far left and the far right in the same boat.
They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.
“Report abuse” for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insane… 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
What's more, they'll ban any other account you make, if they can associate it with you (mainly IP but who knows what else).
The admins have been favoring the fash since forever.
Reddit is on a good trajectory to become voat.
I was temp suspended for suggesting an “untrainable” pit bull be euthanized instead of re-homing (local city sub)
Reason: threatening violence
I also got the reddit admin “please dont kill yourself” pm at the same time, speaking of report abuse…
Hot. (But could you mark NSFW? Thanks. Nearly creamed myself in the office)
On a Sunday?
I've sincerely tried several times and it won't stick, but I'll give it another go.
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.
@ivanafterall can you please mark this 18+/nsfw.
PLEASE DO IT
I've tried--it won't stick. Once I revisit the post, the checkbox has reverted to toggled off again.
What an absolutely chad way to go out. Honestly I'm jealous.
Farewell to your ancient Reddit account.
o7
What a perfect way to go. Incredible. Your account died with honor!
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.
Do you know who banned you? I certainly hope it wasn't an r/pics mod?
Suspensions are site-wide and are given by the admins of the site, not the moderators of a sub.
I feel even more honored.
It wasn't a subreddit ban, it's a Reddit-wide permanent suspension of my account, so I can't interact with the account in any meaningful way anymore. So I doubt it was anyone on /r/pics, but maybe. Presumably it came from somewhere on-high.
did your old comments and posts also get deleted?
Does anyone else have a craving to eat a peach right now?
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
What a truly fabulous way to go down though :P
That's nothing less than epic.
Worth it!
Lmao they banned you for that? That’s incredibly legendary of you.
Totally worth it. What a way to go.
@ivanafterall I love everything about this - the picture, the subreddit rules, and the way you went out. Brava/o!
Going out with a bang. We salute you.
It's so goddamned sexy... OP's goin' out with a bang while I'm going to bang one out.
How dare they. This is art!
Totally expect to see this in the next "last week tonight"
But where's his cabbage wife?
Well you certainly went out on a high note!
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
Glorious!
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.
Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.
Not if I view them using those third party apps they apparently need to charge an arm and a leg for.
OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.
And I’m fine with them wanting to do that.
The protest was less about them wanting to charge a price, it’s that in a time frame of 6 months reportedly went from “the API won’t have changes anytime soon” to “we’re going to pivot to a paid API soon” to “we’re charging you advertiser rates per x million API requests, starting in a month, and you cannot supplement with your own ads”.
There was no time for these apps to adjust their pricing models. Most were on yearly subscription models or ad-driven. Having that large a pivot in the rules with no time to adapt the business model is just shitty partnership on Reddit’s part.
Also the fact that they were involving the third party app maintainers at all. There's no technical reason that REDDIT couldn't put the payment mechanisms in place to block USERS from making API calls through Oauth Apps. If you pay whatever subscription fee your account can make calls through whatever third party app you like.
But instead they decided that they were going to charge the APPS for some inane reason, and put figuring out a user-facing payment mechanism on those maintainers.
The point is that the sub will be dead in a few weeks, unless the admins double down again, wipe the whole mod team, and seize control to run it themselves or by admin-approved-mods or something. Which frankly as a billion-dollar company they probably should have done years ago in a more graceful manner for their dozen main subs like r/pics, but it yanks the veil off and makes the corporate power-grab super visible.
This is exactly what I'm thinking. I just stopped cold turkey.
what a way to go o7
@ivanafterall they are now actively banning folks for using the pictures subreddit as intended? good grief.
This is just blessed content.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
I'm not gay, but I'm starting to have doubts. 🤔
@IsThisLemmyOpen
@ivanafterall
I have the theory that everyone has some degree of bi/pansexuality. Maybe we are the Star Trek mirror universe after all.
@pasci_lei
@ivanafterall @IsThisLemmyOpen
Ron White explains this quite well.
"We're all gay. It's just to what extent."
"Yeah, you are and I'll prove it. Do you like porn?"
"So you only watch two women together?"
"Do you like the guy to have a tiny, half-flaccid penis?"
They really are losing it over there.
How can they ban such artwork, it's outrageous! 😡
It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
(and if you like Seinfeld join https://kbin.social/m/Seinfeld)
it's real, and it's spectacular
This is outrageous, it’s unfair! How can you have one of the most upvoted posts and not grant me the rank of grand Reddit master?
I opened this in public and
I have tried to edit the post to tag it NSFW, but it doesn't seem to stick.
… everyone around you immediately started uncontrollably masturbating?
Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”
lmaooooo
This is literately 1984
Wow, what a way to go. Congrats!
savage
That is absolutely fucking hilarious! Well done! What an exit!
GatDAHM Jamie, what you doing all cheeked up on a Sunday afternoon? 🥵
Holy shit! John is looking good!!
There are some things that are just too sexy for the internet.
but the fediverse can handle it ;)
Wear that shit as a badge of honor
dammit, i wish i had thought of this before nuking everything lmao
I wasn't setting out to be banned, but it feels right. But now I can't access anything, including to delete old comments, etc...
thank you for your sacrifice
Haha Reddit is clearly losing the plot.
Well... Own fault you blew reddit with sexiness!
Legend
Well done.
Sorry for your loss, but what a fabulous way to go out! Bravo!
God speed soldier! Your account's sacrifice will not be forgotten.
LOL.. fuck Reddit!! fuck spez!! 🖕🖕 btw
@ivanafterall
What did it cost?
That is a giga-chad move :)
I love this.
Perfect last post! I'm boycotting reddit but SO tempted to visit r/pics and witness the Jamie Oliververse
Lmao something funny about mixing up the Olivers there
I hope he sees this and does a segment on the whole thing!
Legend!
Bravo, you nearly made me spit my coffee out.
Well, I guess there is a way to delete all your comments on reddit: delete all your content, post this glorious picture, get permabanned before they restore your comments.
This might be the difference! I also got permabanned, and nothing of mine has come back yet!
Stamp it on the tombstone for the account, what a helluva way to go out.
Is this AI generated? Lmao this is amazing. Also Reddit admins suspended your account for this? That is overstepping A LOT. I think you deserve a Sexy John Oliver reward or something
Well they banned my account for calling out their dick sucking bots.
And the other 40+... Well thats a different story for a different day.
It looks like you broke the rule that doesn't allow porn.
They used the excuse that it's AI-generated porn--they called it "non-consensual" or something of the sort. As opposed to the people photoshopping his face onto things, I guess that's a line too far. And not a subreddit ban, mind you, a full on permanent account suspension across Reddit!
I'm pretty sure Oliver would consent. And ask for more.
Tbh you should send an email about this happening to Last Week Tonight.
I don't understand why this would constitute a permanent ban. Seen plenty of worse shit there
I think /r/pics mod staff were told that they would be replaced if they didn't go public again. So they changed the protest to only allowing sexy pictures of John Oliver? And presumably that escalated to the admins throwing a hissy.
Any part of this could be misinformed tho, I haven't been back on that site.
thank you for your service and making my day haha
I was here lol
@ivanafterall deservedly
Chad
Ivanafterall the absolute legend.
thank you for your service o7
If you gotta go. Go out swinging.
I couldn't think of anything creative or witty and hit the delete button on mine.
Thats hilarious, well done!
They banned my 9930 karma account for reposting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFAsTnOpCCM&pp=ygUPa2lsbGluZyBhc3RvbGZv
This is a work of beauty. True art and the best way to leave Reddit.
I'm not gay, but... Ok, I'm gay now..
And such a beautiful way to go too.
@ivanafterall WORTH IT
It's beautiful
They couldn't handle perfection 😤