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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the best malicious compliance so far, still reddit could 'force' them to remove the approval restriction.

But subreddits like pics doing the john oliver thing are completely missing the point, reddit dont care if they do that, it's still getting thousands of views and upvotes because its 'cool and funny', its such a 'we did it reddit' moment. Just stop using reddit, let the subreddits go to shit with no moderation, make a sticky linking to alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The point of the John Oliver pictures is to make it hard for him to NOT at least spend a segment of his next show talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think it will have the opposite effect people want. It will drive traffic to reddit to see the funny pics, it wont suddenly stop the masses using reddit, a garbage experience has to occur for that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But it will get them talking, which is the main point of it. Regular people will wonder why the sub is full of John Oliver, letting them find out about the API changed and everything.

[–] pancakes 5 points 2 years ago

It's also a way to get people to see what is actually happening from a more unbiased source. Since spez did a whole interview circuit, that might be all some people know about the situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still don't know what an API is. But people who know more about it than me have told me in no uncertain terms that spez is scum for it, and I was able to confirm that because he put his whole ass on display in that AMA, and so here I am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

A loose analogy would be to compare it to a restaurant kitchen. The kitchen serves up food for customers dining in (official Reddit app) but also has a takeout window (the API) which anyone can use to get their food without having to go into the restaurant (3rd party apps).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It might get a short bump in traffic, but I don't see traffic increasing on the longer term because of this. And it certainly does spread awareness while also reducing advertising value.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Its funny right now but its very much decreasing the quality of posts longer term aswell as creating publicity about whats going on.