The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.
No, I’m sure that’s a “silent majority” of users who support everything that Reddit The Company does banding together to stamp out the minority of noisy rabble-rousers. /s
Sure, the silent majority of spez’s accounts
I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?
All the pixels came in at the same time
If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It’s clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.
Wasn’t an admin caught doing something similar last time place came around?
Yeah and when I pointed it out I copped 3 day suspension with no message
Idk how many times this has to happen before people stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Random pixels? At this time of Reddit? In this part of r/place? Localized entirely on spez’s head?
Oh, we can all agree it’s not random at this point…
It’s the Admins, the new pixels don’t have any usernames attached to them.
Who else? Seriously… Who else?
Literally anyone with 20 bots.
There is tremendous value in pursuing evidence for the things we believe, rather than spending life totally convinced that our first assumption is always the truth
That’s how it has always been for all places. Admins have the power to erase anything that goes against Reddit’s ToS. Depicting spez under the guillotine is against their ToS, but writing “fuck spez” isn’t, which is why one gets deleted and the other remains.
It makes sense IMO. It’s just like admins having the power to erase swastikas, homophobic or transphobic content, blatant product advertisements and so on. Nothing wrong with it, IMO.
They didnt depict him being decapitated, but his Snoo (i believe those are called Snoos) being decapitated. I think those are two entirely different things, especially given the french revolution theme around it.
Admins are being pussies imo. (After making a very bad decision in returning /r/place) They are of course fully within their right to, and that’s why reddit sucks.
Writing “spez” on the face of the alien was probably a mistake if they didn’t want to get censored.
True, but I don’t think the message comes across the same without it.
I think there’s too much focus on spez and not enough on Reddit. He is making some bad decisions for sure, but in the end the problem with Reddit is much greater than whoever happens to be the CEO.
It’s easy to direct hate towards an individual, but I think it might not be particularly fruitful.
The problem with reddit is, in my opinion, inherent to the way it’s designed. I think that similar to a monarchy, the previous system needs to be forgotten and improved upon. (Not to say that the aftermath of the French Revolution was a great improvement) Whether its spez or anyone else, you cannot make Reddit a healthy platform and go public.
Exactly this ⬆️
If this was being done over lemmy with lemmy.word admin name in it, would it be censored?
Come on man, that’s Ruud.
I didn’t know you could up/downvote on imgur. I wonder where all the downvotes came from…
lol yes there’s a whole underground imgur social network full of users unaware that imgur was originally just an image hosting website for reddit. By default the images I uploaded were private but I decided to click the button to make them a public post just out of curiousity of what imgur’s opinion on the matter might be. Turns out it’s not interesting for them.
It was hilariously bizarre when it was discovered that a population of mole people had been living inside reddit’s image host for some period of time. Especially since they were were getting up in arms about how much reddit content was crowding up the site.
Wonder what life’s like in there these days.
I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny
Yeah, I find protesting Reddit by using Reddit to be incredibly stupid. Just leave and don’t touch it at all, if their user metrics and site traffic are so low, then they’re just gonna lose their advertisers, which is probably one of their main sources of income.
Honorable mention to the people giving shooting star awards (you know, the EXPENSIVE one) to all of the comments on /r/place. Sure did show them there didn’t you!
Some people were premium subscribers for years. They probably just used their accumulated coins since they’re being taken away soon.
Don’t participate. It’s a literal trap. Fuck spez by using Lemmy, friends.
I love seeing this, but they hold all the cards… They will censor all of this.
It’s why I signed up. I’ve been looking for an alternative. This is great so far.
We did on r/lemmy. It was removed
Wait what? I saw a lemmy banner earlier today, did the admins censor it?
Yes
I won’t lie to you Lemmings. Everyone who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an admin has been banned.
Are you saying that one day I can evade getting banned?
No, I’m saying one day you won’t have to.
I still am on reddit in order to keep posting “fuck spez” and to help people to switch
These people cannot control themselves. They’re protesting a company by making them money.
If you have an adblocker and/or other privacy browser plugins how do they make any money from you? If anything, you’ve wasted some bandwidth and server cycles, so you cost them money.
I suppose an argument could be made that by adding to it you’ve created some tiny bit of content someone without adblockers might be enticed to see.
They make them money because:
- they use reddit
- spez gets some nice usage stats to show off
- as a direct consequence, advertisers keep paying to put their ads
- also as a direct consequence, investors’ confidence in reddit continues to recover; there’s a real possibility that, when it IPOs, it will actually go for a decent price
Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact… then maybe it will hurt reddit’s bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube’s anti-ad stuff).
But as it stands, especially if most of reddit’s usage is through reddit’s mobile app… I’m not really sure how you can block ads there.
Those are fair points. Regarding adblock in the official app, you can use ReVanced to patch an .apk similar to how you block ads in YouTube.
Apparently it’s app only, which can’t easily be adblocked
I’m pretty sure there’s revanced patches for that?
The people you want to get off reddit are (shock) on reddit. While it makes reddit money in the short term, it spreads the word to people that aren’t aware. Short term gain for hopefully long term loss.
This is also why I don’t mind the John Oliver stuff. It’s interesting for now, but it will get boring. I just hope it doesn’t get stupid like what happened on r/aww
I’m a bit out of the loop, what happened on r/aww?
Redditors on their way to do everything except stop using reddit.
Lurker on Reddit, first comment on Lemmy. Let us hope this will become the better alternative 🙏
It already is :-)
always has been
Welcome :) we should all expect some teething problems as lemmy is growing so rapidly. Looking good so far though
and the admins nuked it.
I’m never going back to that place
I mean, fuck that place, but this particular instance of censorship seems acceptable and even good. Some schizo dude on the interweebs could think this is God speaking to him or something. Don’t promote violence online.
No. Stop. Don’t.
I hear you, but all these rich rat bastards need to be reminded that they only have what they have because the masses allow it. I hope I don’t see it in my lifetime, but we are rapidly approaching a point where heads are going to roll.
I do believe heads need to roll at this point, but not specifically Spez. Like what he’s doing is minimal and not deserving of death or incitement of violence against him.
The same people who drew that probably use Reddit every day. If you really want to make a point don’t do shit like that, just stop using Reddit.
Look at the masses of Germans coordinated to say “fuck Spez”… What percentage of them do you think still use Reddit?
I’m a german and made an account with a throaway email so i could help the german artworks because i really like the community around the german r/place engagement. I’m not planning on using that account after place is done so I also used a randomly generated password which i didn’t save. I just want the fun and community of last years e/place again.
I actually went back to Reddit. Even as a left-wing follower, I couldn’t take the heavy bias of the community. The echo chamber is just too loud. They are convinced communism is flawless, and whenever it becomes flawed, it is the right’s fault. I can’t deal with absolutes, I’d rather be dead than radicalized by an ideology.
For some reason Lemmy won’t let me remove my account so I just login once a day to see if it is already gone.
I turned it into my Lock Screen.
Unfathomably based
Am I the only one who thinks place is lame? It’s just another Reddit circle jerk and everyone is falling for it hook line and sinker. Shit like this reminds me why the human population is mentally deficient and why politicians have such an easy time controlling us.
It’s also being griefed using obvious bots. Every 30 seconds or so the entire blade gets blocked out by a perfect checkerboard pattern done all at once. Or a perfect square will get whited out. Either spez is directing it or some reddit fanboy is defending his honor with a bot army
Anyone else remember when they had the last CEO institute a ton of egregious shit and then instead of running it back, they replaced her with spez and everyone then forgot about it?
Just leave, ffs. It’s annoying that in the end of the day people still remain in droves. The only hope is that reddit drives itself into being unusable.
Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.
Oh no, if they ban me I’d lose all my precious reddit coins
I don’t know if you saw, but they’re removing this functionality anyway. So all your coins will be absorbed or deleted or whatever after September 31st iirc
I did see that, was trying to make a bad joke :-)
Isn’t this personal harassment and threats? technically this content violates lemmy coc
Even if you think the original content on reddit rises to that level, this is merely reporting on behavior taking place somewhere else; it’s not threatening/harassing spez in and of itself.
