Who knew attempting to bully a community based around a game where corpo scum are oppressive leaders of the western world would go so wrong.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Well, look at r/piracy. The people there were crying about the protest and wanted to open the subreddit. I expected a bit more from pirates. Good that Cyberpunk2077 does what they preach.
The remaining people there cried about it.
There are at least some people in piracy communities that are glad the complainers stayed behind
Got to be honest, didn’t knew cyberpunk 2077 could be that graphical with nudity lol.
But I like what they are doing, I heard Reddit claimed that it wasn’t a nudity kind of game or something.
If you see the character's penis during the character creation screen, it's not the last time you're going to see it.
Thinking back… I don’t remember seeing it after character creation.
Yeah, I stripped down out of curiosity and the woman was topless but wearing panties in the photo mode.
You even shower with underwear on. V is a never nude. There are dozens of them.
One of the romance options ends with a weirdly-explicit sex scene, and you can see your entire body.
It actually was, though. I played exclusively in first person, and I never took my clothes off lol.
yeah... coming from The Witcher 3, I assumed the game would be more adult than Geralt's adventures when I saw the genital slider in charcter creation... yet... I was disappointed.
Your character never needed to go to the bathroom and look down?
Cyberpunk is a very moddable game and the community have put in a lot of effort to ensure that if you want to see your V in the nude with updated 4K skin textures, enhanced genitalia meshes, and ensuring that you have a plethora of pubic hair styles to choose from then you will with considerable haste and ease.
I've been playing that game totally wrong. Maybe I might like it if I knew how to select choices to make it more nudity free?
Call their bluff. Let them kick everyone with a "final warning that they aren't allowed to be NSFW. Let's see them supply enough mods to keep porn off of everything.
Laughs in skyrim.
Time to hit up Lovers Lab!
Ban mods, lose posters/users, less content to moderate. Checkmate 🤡
Less eyes and clicks for ads. Less content to moderate was always an acceptable outcome
Acceptable, yet due to the proliferation of Only Fans spam bots, not very realistic
doesnt even sound like a protest, it's a nsfw game
Right? I can slice a gonk stem to stern with mantis blades and post that and it's not NSFW? but heaven forbid we see V's hanging dong. I'll have to clutch my digital pearl necklace.
Imagine if you wanted to participate, but you didn't turn genitals on during character creation.
Pretty sure you can afterwards
Even though it may require getting your hands dirty in the config files
The article said that r/Pics and r/military have surrendered for the good of their communities. I mean, r/Pics could make that mistake, but r/military??? You understand it's MUCH easier to just execute your POWs than treat them humanely, right? Unfortunately, the mods are about to discover there's no Geneva Conventions for Reddit to prevent just that. Maybe they meant for this to be a teaching moment?
Within the year, once the protests have really died down, those mods will be purged. 100% guarantee it. The ONLY case where they survive is if Reddit wants to show how fair and magnanimous they are to the community. Of course, any further test of that will be get them nuked from orbit.
But everyone knows not to execute your own leadership because who is going to run the day to day ops? It’ll take years just to get back to where they were in terms of quality and quantity because they nuked some of the most experienced and engaged redditors. More of a Pyrrhic victory, I’d say.
Good point. I think they could navigate around most of the trouble if they get some distance from the protest.
One of three things could happen:
- Reddit buckles to unhappy investors (whom doubt Reddit brass has control) and actually hires a small group of moderators for subs with X million users or Y activity.
- They slowly remove them one-by-one, replacing them with mods from other subs. e.g.- Contact the mods of r/(some other picture subreddit), sent them a DM, "We noticed your sub is very similar to r/Pics. To make the community blah blah, we're trying to expand the mod teams of our most active subreddits. Would you be willing to help mod r/Pics some small amount, and in return we'll help recruit more mods for r/(some other picture sub)?" Or they'll frame it as a test strategy or test of new mod tools.
- Same as #2, but quickly and all protest supporting mods at once. Take the PR hit, counter with "new tools", ignore the backlash.
The hard part is their business model assumes free moderation. Adding labor in any form will change the valuation because it’s based on future revenue. Now they have a lot of ‘splainin’ for investors and no one knows what the company is worth. If they have to pay for moderation it’s an entirely different business so I don’t see them suddenly cutting checks for the good mods who remained.
Looks like they underestimated the way the backlash would manifest and now have to hold their nose and wait for the subs to re-build momentum naturally.
Oh, totally. I'm just saying that if all they want is to pump up the valuation to cash out, throw a small bunch of interns on mod jobs for a few months. They could make some statement that the "core" Reddit communities will have in house moderation assisting the volunteer mods, investors happy, value up.
I know that making a subreddit NSFW doesn't allow them to get ad revenue, but it seems like it would drive the more complacent people to download the official Reddit app now that they've disabled NSFW for 3rd party apps. I wonder if there could be a different way to protest that wouldn't be beneficial to Reddit in the long term.
As soon as they start to use the official app, they will delete their account and switch to lemmy.
I have been spreading the word about Lemmy and it seems to be working
We could only hope. Sadly, for a lot of people, convenience is an influential commodity today.
And here's where the mods turn to the camera with roguish smirks, because they weren't necessarily bluffing.
You know, I'd love to read things that are written to be read, not something that reads like the storyboard to PCG's video content for this item.
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