Update on the vote results, for people who don't want to go there:

• Pro John Oliver: 61.7k

• Return to normal: -13.7k.

I like the malicious compliance but I find that to be a bad way to do a poll. Better would have been one comment with the text "Upvote if you want John Oliver pics, downvote if you want it to go back to normal".

The way they did it if one group only upvote their alternative and the other also downvotes the opponent then the result isn't representative. Or at least could be claimed not to be.

It would exacerbate the swing but wouldn't change the result

And I don't think maliciously compliant mod of interested in statistical representation.