• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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    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. [redacted]

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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      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

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        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.

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    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

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    Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.

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      It’s a subreddit/event that they do every year (or I think it’s only once a year?) where every user can place a single, colored pixel on a large digital canvas.

      Your pixel can be over-written by another user, and each user can only place one pixel every 5 minutes or so (and there’s a lot of bot-use, which is lame)

      So different subreddits will band together to try and orchestrate a picture and protect it from being over-written by other users (or bots… if possible)

      So alliances between subreddits are formed, fall apart, some backstabbing and deception… all until the event is over and the final canvas is locked-in.

      It was actually a pretty cool event. You could maybe join a discord, a pattern and placement would be followed, and you’d just drop a pixel where it needed to be when you could, to help the overall picture. Or go rogue and try and etch a tiny little corner somewhere yourself

      I had fun with it last year, but c’est la vie. I ain’t going back there for anything. Would be cool if the different instances could somehow do something of the same nature across the fediverse one day. It was the comradery and light-hearted fun that really made it

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    I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny

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    Isn’t this personal harassment and threats? technically this content violates lemmy coc

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      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.