@nazgul Would love to see some subreddits adopt the rule "wrong answers only" to further drive down the value of search engines crawling or linking to the site.

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John Oliver's agent must be cycling between terror and glee at about 3 millihertz

@nazgul I am reminded of back in the early 00s, someone made an LJ community called something like “fuck-muslims” and almost immediately it was flooded with posts of, like, scantily clad models and various hot and sexy members of the faith.

@nazgul he's right though, people will eventually give up. Just like how people claiming they'd quit Twitter end up staying, despite it being in a much worse state then Reddit.

@nazgul The r/steam thing reminds me of users of Polish social site Wykop posting images of rhododendrons to complain about attempts to censor complaints about GDPR compliance (because the Polish abbreviation for GDPR is RODO).

@nazgul perfect 😆

@nazgul I love this so much

@nazgul Personally, I'd set it and all posts to #archived and block any new postings so @internetarchive 's #WaybackMachine can #archive it fully before it's being deleted.

Also :reddit: pulling that move is propably actionable as extortion, but that's #NotLegalAdvice.

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The calculation that some of the most literate, greatest polemicists on the internet would just shrug it off and resume business as usual was clearly not well informed.

@nazgul am I the only one that thinks this is still good content for #reddit?. I mean here we are talking about it. If people want to really protest something they should just stop using it. That's it. That requires no extra work unlike finding hot pictures of John Oliver. They'll do this for a while and slowly return to normal. Everyone is hating on #reddit CEO but he's right about the fact that this whole thing will blow over.

@nazgul Yup. Literally 'jumped ship' as part of the Reddit 'going dark' days and never looked back...

@nazgul The ultimate feedback loop would be John Oliver posting about it on his show. (And now you know how the conservative echo chamber works...)

@nazgul I coincidentally took Reddit off my phone a few days before it all went down, haven't gone back

@nazgul John Oliver posted a bunch of photos of himself to his Twitter and said "have at it" to the Reddit protesters. I hope he's laughing his ass off at the whole thing.

@nazgul The unprivating is unfortunately still a benefit to Reddit since older posts can appear in Google search results again.

@nazgul Malicious compliance is beautiful.

@nazgul this is brilliant

@nazgul@infosec.exchange Communities are getting creative! All posts on r/wellthatsucks now must be about vacuum cleaners, and all comments can only be the phrase "Wellthatsucks" ​:nkogiggle2:​

@nazgul i no longer have a Reddit account. My friends appear to no longer have Reddit accounts. Reddit was a harsh place to visit. I left before it became toxic like Twitter. I have a Twitter account by the way, but I only use it for porn.

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I took a peek this morning and saw /r/videos is in on it now too.

> To that end, we will only be allowing the finest of videos to grace our subreddit’s queue ... Going forward, we will only allow videos featuring the one and only John Oliver. That’s right, Zazu himself is going to make up all of /r/Videos’ content going forward. We liked what our sister subreddit /r/Pics was doing, but in true /r/Videos fashion, we're going to do it 30 times per second instead.

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I've actually boycotted Reddit for a week now... But reading about all of the fun responses to this whole thing makes me want to go back and join in.

I might even join a few new fucking subs to ruin some fucking ad revenue.