Written by DrNeurohax
"Some Thoughts on Ways Mods Can Stay in Malicious Compliance, in Order To Prolong the Protest and Their Removal by Admins.
r/funny should be proud. They sat in the crosshairs for longer than anyone thought they would. I hope they, and all the other subs pressured into going restricted or public, continue to show their support in some unique way. Some ideas:
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Include kbin/lemmy equivalent magazines in the banner and a sticky post. Sticky an autocomment on every post with fediverse info.
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Only use the standard mod tools and halve your time commitment. “We went back to using the tools they gave us and this is how it will be from now on. Welcome to the new Reddit you guys chose by not supporting the blackout!”
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Mark the sub NSFW. Realistically, there’s rarely a reason anyone in an office should be on Reddit. This should also make the sub unavailable for mobile users when the API changes go into effect.
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Make every day April Fool’s Day. Like when r/DataIsBeautiful posted nothing but pics of Star Trek’s Data. If you have no ideas, just google the sub name and see what you find!
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- a type of long catheter that is inserted through a peripheral vein, often in the arm, into a larger vein in the body, used when intravenous treatment is required over a long period. Seems like an important topic for r/Pics to cover. (Dictionary.com)
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- Slang abbreviation for Partner In Crime, so maybe change focus to famous crime duos (Urban Dictionary)
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- Slang for a movie, so become the movie subreddit (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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- Just go nuts with https://www.abbreviations.com/pic
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Set unreasonable posting requirements without an announcement, but noting the change in the side bar. Gotta read the fine print."
Set posts to require moderator approval.
- Approve 1 post every hour or only approve really poor quality ones.
Fracture the community.
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Announce alternative subs for your topic, which you also control, and encourage unsubbing from the original sub. Do some of the above, while also setting the sub to require accounts be subscribed for a month to post. Those that leave will find nothing in the alt subs, which they can’t post to, and be unable to post on the main sub for a month. Also, fracturing the large subs will reduce traffic overall, due to the chaos.
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Remove and replace scrub mods where possible. If you get booted down the line, another supporter can continue the pattern.
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Forward any post remotely related to a product advertised on Reddit to that company’s media contact for approval. Advertisers should know what is being associated with their brands. (And if some really gnarly stuff gets submitted by some non-mod account, it might be more impactful."
We must fight back. Spread the word.
The absolute #1 thing we need right now is focus on building kbin:
We DESPERATELY need a bot that will take submissions from our subreddit and mirror them on kbin so that we can create the same experience over here and build this place in parallel.
Once Spez eventually ruins Reddit through this Elon phase he’s going through, we will have a functioning community here, but we won’t do that if we can’t recreate the experience.
Does anyone have a solution to this? Any bot builders out there?
I believe I read that kbin at least doesn’t have an API yet, anyone know if this is true?
Overall I like your plan. Each time migrations happen (like from YouTube to other places), I’m always surprised that people seem to think it’s an all-or-nothing thing. Like, I’m surprised I don’t start seeing people use or write a service to cross post to a bunch of video sites. Seems like a good way for them to help start building up views on other platforms (and help build alternative platforms that generally just lack content), but I have yet to see ANYONE do it. I’m sure someone has but usually they either just whine about how small other platforms are or try to switch too early and die off.
I don’t think that would have the intended impact though. What you end up with is a ghost town. It isn’t fun chatting about something when nobody else is there. A sub full of posts and zero comments discourages anyone from trying.
Less posts, but full of comments will be way more appealing because it means there is a community. The posts will come in time.
That’s very rude, harmful to users, and will only serve to have the sub taken away from the mods doing that. It’s a very bad idea. I do suggest using only the tools provided by the website. But don’t use the NSFW tag erroneously, because that will get mod powers taken away.
Having the subreddit taken away from the mods would be a good thing, actually. Up until recently powermods with over 100 subreddits under their moderation belt were the main thing ruining the site.
If I can’t moderate effectively with the tools I’m left with, I can’t guarantee that all content will be SFW at all times
OP has the spirit, at least.
That said, malicious compliance is definitely the way. Use the mod tools provided by the website, and when that leads to massive amounts of shitposts staying up for hours/days, then change to having posts be approved by the mods. While continuing to use the mod tools to do so. Hopefully it will make the admins have to take the time to “help” with moderation, since the mods will no longer be able to keep up.
Just wait for IPO day and then “Blackout 2: Electric Boogaloo”
I like these ideas.
This guy fucks!