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No, he wouldn’t. He would say continuing to visit a site you are protesting against isn’t a protest at all.

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31 points

This is just incorrect.

What you are describing is a boycott. And it’s probably true that that’s the most powerful thing a normal user can do against reddit.

But mods can do much more by messing with their sub. In terms of headache caused.

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They’re driving away the holdouts by making the content useless. I think that’s better than just leaving, burn it down on your way out.

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He’d be all for both, but he certainly likes malicious compliance as protest when feasible.

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Malicious Compliance

!maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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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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  • We ENCOURAGE posts about events that happened to you, or someone you know.

  • We ACCEPT (for now) reposts of good malicious compliance stories (from other platforms) which did not happen to you or someone you knew. Please use a [REPOST] tag in such situations.

  • We DO NOT ALLOW fiction, or posts that break site-wide rules.

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