Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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/r/interestingasfuck forced open, lowers its standard of what qualifies as "interesting", gets flooded with adult content [NSFW within two clicks] (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Iron_Lynx to c/maliciouscompliance

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I think the title speaks for itself.

EDIT: UPDATE: So apparently the former r/jailbait mod that is The CEO purged the sub’s mods and forced the sub to re-reopen under the old rules.

Mission failed! We’ll get them next time!

EDIT2: aaaaaaand the sub's archived and no longer accepts new submissions. The garbage fire keeps going....

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[–] kroy 0 points 1 year ago

I think this is ignoring the fact that basically any of those are replaceable, especially the moderators and content generators.

Reddit is generally not a content generation platform. Sure, there are a few exceptions, but most of what attracts people to the largest subreddits, is stuff being reposted from elsewhere.

And mods? They've demonstrated they have zero issues replacing moderators with bots and people who are happy to play ball with this.

As far as lurkers are concerned, they can't even be bothered to create an account, let alone care about apps or API access. Same goes for all the Buzzfeed-ish lists that are all sourced with Reddit now. They aren't even using Reddit, they are paying reddit for content via a third party site.

For every one person who talks about "I removed my 10+ year old account", there's 1000 people who are business as usual. And I've never heard of Chatango, and given the daily traffic of reddit is three orders of magnitude larger than Chanago, it's safe to say it's pretty niche.

The bottom line is reddit has enough momentum that this is just a blip. I would love if this forced them to change direction, but I see it being about a 0.0% of actually happening.