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As much as I'm on the fuck reddit train, I'm pretty sure it was already ending as this happened
Yes
Then why lie in the title?
To get clicks.
r/place (at least last year's did) ends with a whiteout. I was asleep when this happened, but I'm 90% sure this happened because r/place was ending and not the other way around.
Is that why all of Reddit went down at the same time /r/place ended? Or was it because the admins panicked and hit the off button?
I'm going with the latter, considering past actions and evidence.
There's no evidence. If they wanted to censor "fuck spez" they would have done it from the beginning. They were censoring nipples and piss - why did they leave those? There were tons of them all over the canvas, with a big one by various communities towards the end. Plus, it's a known fact that admins remove all color but white towards the end - that's why this was planned when people knew r/place was ending.
I also don't see anyone mentioning reddit going down anywhere. You're the first one to mention it that I've seen. You have links that reddit went down? Legit Q because not even the discords I'm in mention anything about that.
Yeah, everyone was talking about it earlier today. Look at the down reports from earlier today: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
Ah. Interesting. Thanks for the link.
I think the admins deliberately chose not to censor "fuck spez" because it makes people think they are a free platform
I 104% expect them to use Spez as a scapegoat at this point. Even if that wasn't their original intent, I fully expect that now they're letting the hate focus on him, then they'll fire him (don't worry, he'll still get a hefty severance package) in hopes that it will satisfy people. They want the anger many people have towards Reddit to get transferred to Spez.
After all, this is exactly how Spez ended up CEO. They pulled this with Ellen Pao.
They don't care. They only care about engagement and they got excellent numbers this month, I wager.
Could be, tbh. Or they thought it'd just alienate users more and add more controversy.
They did censor the spez guillotine though.
Yeah. But that's expected (it's like encouraging violence on a real person). And it's only 1 artwork among a sea of "fuck spez" lol. The snoo hung upside-down (Mussolini -style) wasn't.
Everyone had a different overlay first, which is why it looks so chaotic, but it's not botted. They made tampermonkey overlays for the most art pieces. Otherwise there is no way you can defend an attack. They did the same for 'fuck spez'
Using an automated script to automatically place pixels without human intervention over a large number of accounts isn't bottling?
I'm not sure how many people might have done that, but the overlays the person you're replying to mentions is not that. The overlays literally just show you what colour each pixel should be and a human must place the pixel. Those are used by tons of legit people. While I have no doubt that there is botting, large communities on Reddit can have millions of people. They only have to convince less than one percent of their most dedicated members to use an overlay and they'll be able to defend a sizable chunk of the canvas.
Ah OK, I misunderstood what was meant by overlay
And we know of most cases where botting was used. They don't grow as organically as the 'fuck spez' did with all the fuckups :D
What the other guy wrote. How is using an overlay automatically botting? You still have to place your pixels manually.
I love the replies in that thread complaining about "bots" as if past years weren't exactly the same.
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