Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.
Just waiting for my ban for placing a pixel there, tbh.
Can’t engage with the site if they block me from engaging with it.
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 :-)
I was honestly wondering what I should do with what I had leftover, I’m glad they gave me a reason to not care
Wanna trade?
I already found some fuck spez people to give mine to 😂
I’ve been giving out gold to “fuck spez” posts but I’ve still got like 10,000 left. (accumulated from various free giveaways over the years, e.g. after they bought AlienBlue)
I’d love to trade you gold for gold (or slightly more efficiently, plat for plat).
Still engagement.
r/RedditCensorship should have a field day about this getting censored. 🤡
WEN MURICA REVOLUTION?
Redditors on their way to do everything except stop using reddit.
I’m not big on spez but this particular one is a little bit in poor taste to me.
I’m also not big on Spez but I do agree with you.
You got some downvotes too so I’m chiming in to say that you’re also not wrong, and I don’t feel either one of you said anything unreasonable (so far…)
A little leeway should be given if for nothing else anyone or anything getting their head chopped off in place would be questionable
…really?
Yeah. I see I’m being downvoted but meh. I’m cool with the fuck spez stuff and I used to be on Reddit way too much so I’m feeling the loss too, but in the end it’s a website and the guillotine is just too much for me given what we’re upset about. It’s cool if other people feel differently about it but that’s how I feel.
I didn’t downvote you. I’m just fascinated.
No I can’t tell who did but someone. Like, whatever, imaginary internet points. But it does tell me I’m in the minority in this one. I guess maybe my feelings on it stem somewhat from the political climate in the US with domestic terrorism getting more and more common and it just makes me feel a little skeevy. But I’m also obsessed with bunnies so maybe I’m just soft idk.
Potentially. To me it’s just far too cartoonish to take too seriously.
That’s true, maybe they weren’t going for realism here lol
I gave you a meaningless upvote because I don’t think you’re wrong and you’ve got a completely reasonable take
Just saying for me, yeah I guess if I think too into it, it does rub me the wrong way but I see a couple degrees of separation between the art and the person. It was the snoo head with just the word spez with a big red card behind it
I feel like if it was written on the forehead for example that would have definitely make me question their decision a lot more
(And in regards to the other comments of yours in this thread, I get how that could put you at unease… there’s some interesting things developing in America)
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.
I finally kinda see it, but hate the tone it was said with “heres a game to keep you distracted”
cough cough Draw a pic of Mouhamad (with face) cough cough
*A prophure of the picmed of Mohaphet
Call a bondulance, you’re having a stronk.
LMAO I almost choked on my drink
There’s a very old saying that I think was attributed to a Roman leader which went something like “Games and bread”, humans have been easy to swat for a very long time.
Bread and circuses
English is closer to the original expression. In German, we say “Brot und Spiele” (lit. bread and games), hence the poster wrote it that way.
Shall we fiddle now, or fiddle later? Either way, there shall be fiddling!
Juvenal, a poet in ancient Rome. He wrote a whole series of books with satirical social commentary. A spiritual predecessor of George Carlin, so to speak.
You are the one posting here, dude.
removed by mod
looks like everyone is having a good time on Reddit again
and the admins nuked it.
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.
Idk. It’s symbolic. It’s art.
We can’t just live our lives in fear of what some crazy person is going to do because of it.
This is what r/place was designed for: to capture the entirety of Reddit in one snapshot. And this is perfect defiance of what reddit is doing.
Taking it down is why I won’t go back to reddit ever.
In the only two examples I’m somewhat familiar with (John Lennon and Ronald Reagan), when someone’s mental illness led them to attack a public figure, the trigger wasn’t anything nearly as obvious as an incitement to violence, or even criticism of the public figure. Unpredictable people are unpredictable; trying to foresee what might set them off is pointless.
This is stupid. Crazies will be crazy. They’ll take inspiration from anywhere. Kill john lennon.
Do you think Marie antoinette shouldnt have been killed?
The circumstances leading to her death were rather complicated. She’s not a good example to use for either side of the argument.
Not a fair comparison whatsoever
Do you think Spez should be decapitated? You see guys, this is why I say “do not promote violence” on the internet. There’s always that insane guy.
No i dont think he should be decapitated literally but maybe in the sense he would not be involved in Reddit anymore
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.
Well, they are all interacting with Reddit. I guess it depends on whether the message outweighs the increased engagement. I don’t really care about Spez as all this is a symptom of a much bigger problem.
I’m never going back to that place
same
Of course they did. It was a death threats against an individual. The protestors needs to drop spez as a scapegoat and pick a target that is smarter.
given the many recent decisions by reddit, if there is people smarter than spez they are not vocal to it on the outside.
But i seriously doubt that spez is listening, when people tell him what a bad idea is.
Smarter target as in the protestors needs to be smarter when picking a symbol. Any action that targets spez as an individual will get removed as personal harassment.
Would have been better without the spez name plate.
I don’t think that’s a death threat at all. Guillotines are a metaphor for the working class forcibly taking power away from the ruling elite.
It is a guillotine with a reddit head in it and the name spez written on it. Just depicting a guillotine is not a death threats but depicting a person in it that exist in the real world is absolutely a death threats against that person. If that is not a death threat there is no such thing as a death threats on the internet and moderation is dead.
So many folks taking that too literally as if it means something IRL. It doesn’t, it means people want Reddit to cut Spez out as CEO. If they meant physical harm to the man, they might have said his real name.
If this was done against you or someone you liked, you would not make those arguments. If they replaced spez with a rainbow flag you would immediately identify it as a hate crime and a call to violence, because it fucking is. You can argue that spez isnt harmed by these kinds death threats and should just allow them on r/place but at least be honest with your fucking opinions.
It’s pixels on a screen. It’s a username on a mascot, not a photo with a real human name.
Can you tell the difference between a social media identity vs. an actual human?
Yes we all know who it actually refers to in real life, but the fact that it represents cutting the head off of Snoo is a metaphor meaning people would like to cut Steve out of being Reddit CEO.
Like I said to start with though, in the long run it’s just pixels on a screen. Don’t let it get you upset.
Words are just letters arranged in order but if I start writing racial slurs or telling people to kill themselves then I would get banned from pretty much any functional social platform.
A death threat is something like saying “I’m gonna murder spez”. It expresses an intention. An illustration suggesting that someone could be killed does not express any intention to actually kill someone. Furthermore the image could be interpreted in other ways, like saying the user account “spez” should be eliminated, or that that spez is the kind of person who would have been killed had he been around in the French revolutionary period. No reasonable person could believe the people posting those pixels are actually making plans to cut off Steve Huffman’s head with a guillotine.
I’m much more concerned about rhetoric that, for example, equates LGBT+ people with groomers, because that shit demonstrably does get people killed, and I’ve been told numerous times that rhetoric like that doesn’t violate any rules. If moderation is dead, that’s what killed it.
No reasonable person could believe the people posting those pixels are actually making plans to cut off Steve Huffman’s head with a guillotine.
I agree, but the world is provably full of many unreasonable people.
Well, fuck em, and fuck spez. People can be unreasonable as they see fit, but I still maintain: Off with his 'ead! Metaphorically, of course
That’s the idea behind stochastic terrorism.
An illustration suggesting that someone could be killed does not express any intention to actually kill someone.
Wow. Brain just turns to literal soup as soon as the hate is directed towards someone you don’t like.
So insightful. So persuasive.
Based.
And guillotine-pilled
based
Tubular.
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.
This is the way
You have to use the mobile app too. This is purely a stunt to get app adoption.
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
Thankfully they are making it super easy for me to resist placing pixels this year. Doesn’t work on old.reddit, only works on new reddit or their official mobile app. No way in hell I’m downloading that piece of crap app and I don’t feel like swapping back and forth between old and new site designs.
I mean you could (though it’s not recommended, because fuck reddit) just type “https://new.reddit.com/(whatever)” in order to load new reddit for just that one tab. But don’t do that and don’t participate in r/place, because fuck reddit.
It doesn’t seem to work without proprietary javascript
I won’t lie to you Lemmings. Everyone who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an admin has been banned.
Outstanding reference well played
What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge mods?
Mods? Where we’re going we don’t need mods.
you cant fire me i quit
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
or make a ‘join lemmy’ sign?
I have been fucking spez for a week now
Get yourself checked for STDs.
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
That’s the moderators of place doing that.
I’m willing to bet the moderators of r/place aren’t doing it/are glad it’s taking this direction and/or the former mods of r/place were removed by cum-guzzling bootlicking admins who are now forcefully whitewashing reddit users’ contributions.
I consider r/place mods and spez to be the same group. I really just mean that it could be either an official action by reddit-affiliated person or could be bots run by someone who just dickrides spez, just trying to disclaim that obvious manipulation doesn’t necessarily mean it’s reddit’s doing.
For every person who rides spez’s dick there’s a hundred that hate him. There would be more bots drawing things.
Can bots even function on place now?
Web scraping bots can
God bless them
The placed pixels don’t have a username associated with them. The bot drawings are done with obviously fake accounts, but each pixel still has an account.
Someone is mad.
Censorship are everywhere, especially big tech platforms
