[META] reddits r/shittylifeprotips is now without rules and posting porn is being encouraged to make reddit less desirable to advertisers.

3 years ago by killer_penguin to c/shittylifeprotips

Spez is a greedy little pig boy

SlowNPC 23 points 3 years ago

That's... insane. I briefly stuck my head into r/shittylifeprotips and r/interestingasfuck to see it with my own eyes and... they're burning it all down, aren't they? Shitposts, butthole shots, spam about spez, porn... no "normal" posts at all.

::Raises fist in solidarity::

Edit: spez is a greedy little pigboy

save

path: 0 370054, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 2

50gp 14 points 3 years ago

advertisers will surely love communities suddenly changing to porn and their focused ad campaigns being worthless

save

path: 0 370054 371289, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 0

A_A 2 points 3 years ago

Bad porn those admins deserve & get.

save

path: 0 370054 385810, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

Mystical 21 points 3 years ago

I think this is a feedback loop for reddit's death spiral. They'll just start blocking/banning NSFW posts or make a new 'policy' thus killing off even more subs. Which in return more people will leave who didn't care about the API changes. Then those who remain will find another loophole and continue the protest which reddit fires back restricting even more and it continues until reddit has lost the majority of its core userbase.

Maybe I am wrong but I am assuming most advertisers don't want to advertise with NSFW stuff everywhere. I feel reddit who is money hungry and refuses to listen to the community will just continue to tighten the grip as they remove more and more mods from subs replacing them with yes men.

save

path: 0 370159, hotness: undefined, score: 21, children: 2

Untitled9999 4 points 3 years ago

as they remove more and more mods from subs replacing them with yes men

Would it be easy to find new moderators though? Who would want to moderate for Reddit at this stage? I think most of the people who would show any interest in moderating are currently too angry with Reddit to want to do it.

save

path: 0 370159 386734, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 1

Stegget 2 points 3 years ago

Don't kid yourself, there will always be more toadies willing to play along for the sake of having their own little slice of authority, however meaningless it may be.

save

path: 0 370159 386734 396629, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

rarkgrames 19 points 3 years ago

"The one new rule that will be strictly enforced is that instead of each post beginning with "SLPT", every post must now begin with "Spez is a greedy little pig boy""

God I love this

save

path: 0 380394, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 0

unexplaineditem 19 points 3 years ago

where's my popcorn!

save

path: 0 366991, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 2

A_A 5 points 3 years ago

Here it is : 🍿🍾🌽🎉 !

save

path: 0 366991 385674, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1

unexplaineditem 4 points 3 years ago

excellent, thank you

save

path: 0 366991 385674 396339, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

PrinceHabib72 17 points 3 years ago

Spez is a greedy little pig boy

save

path: 0 367016, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 1

kriss0706 9 points 3 years ago

Spez is a greedy little pig boy

save

path: 0 367016 369617, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0

BuddhaBeettle 15 points 3 years ago

Any sociologist out there could have a field trip with the whole reddit protest.

save

path: 0 370394, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 0

lvl100magikarp 10 points 3 years ago

Spez is salty because he sold Reddit for 10m back in the day

save

path: 0 367150, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0

MrsDoyle 10 points 3 years ago

Shenanigans!

save

path: 0 366513, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0

Dabadoo 8 points 3 years ago

So in the early 20 teens before I learned how to subscribe to my own curated feed, I inadvertently saw things I never wanted nor needed to see. Though I never subscribed to those, sometimes in browsing r/popular I’d read those. Those two subreddits were never the sources of such sights. I’m both 1. still sad at losing my mindless reading habit and using the elegant Apollo app and 2. Grinning at greedy little pig boy’s schadenfreude.

save

path: 0 380998, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0

Gamers_Mate 6 points 3 years ago

I found out about the advertisement thing from the stablediffusion sub they are totally not getting everyone to swear as much as possible. On an Unrelated note I submitted John Oliver as a Chess pawn on reddit. Turns out I spelt it wrong.

save

path: 0 369885, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0

lixus98 5 points 3 years ago

Amazing, this is what spez deserves

save

path: 0 369715, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

Saturdaycat 4 points 3 years ago

Wow this is actually pretty awesome then if it messes with the ad revenue

save

path: 0 370376, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

A_A 2 points 3 years ago

SLPT == Spez Little Pig Ting Thing