Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators

https://beehaw.org/post/642546

Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators - Beehaw

Excellent work

  • Some of the biggest communities like r/pics, r/aww, and r/GIF decided to post John Oliver pictures and GIFs. In a tweet, Oliver approved this move.
  • In the case of r/aww, the community is also allowed to post pictures of Chiijohn.
  • r/iPhone decided to post pictures celebrating “dashing” Tim Cook.
  • r/Shitposting banned posts with the letter k.
  • r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
  • r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.
  • r/Interestingasfuck removed a lot of all rules apart from asking members to not break site-wide rules.
  • r/Memes is allowing only Medieval / Landed Gentry memes. This is in response to Huffman’s “Landed Gentry” comment about protesting subreddits.
  • r/PokemonGo is now allowing pictures of John Oliver, Pikachu, or Spark.
  • r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”
  • r/Steam members are posting about actual steam.
  • r/HarryPotter is now referring to Huffman as Voldemort.
  • Some subreddits such as r/Showerthoughts are determining close days for the community.

Glorious.

I'd like to know more about the "determining close days" for some subreddits. Won't they just open them back up?

I love to see the malicious compliance.

Some subs like r/fuckcars will be doing “touch grass Tuesday”, where the sub will be restricted every Tuesday.

I think r/HarryPotter is still polling the same idea. Which gets me wonder what if most of the popular subs decided to do this.