They should partner with /r/trains, and start posting steam trains.

;)

Have you checked out /r/pics? Lol

This would most likely be considered as a "lack of moderation", giving the admins an excuse to replace them.

Catch-22. Subreddit mods can be removed for not moderating

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In the short term, sure

But in the long term, the novelty will wear thin and people will find the content they want elsewhere

As another commenter said elsewhere, it's more nuanced than that. It drives a bit of traffic in the short term, but people interested in the original content are forced to create new subreddits (which take significant time to gain momentum again). And the gag will eventually taper off and engagement will be lower. Overall, it's a decent form of protest (given the blackout is being forcibly overturned), as it will likely lower the value of Reddit overall, hopefully nuking the potential IPO.

Though that doesn't invalidate your second point. Kinda fun to watch a dumpster fire for a little while, though.

Not exactly. I think the advertisers will start to ask some uncomfortable questions, as will any inverstors for the IPO.

It depends, how long until it will not be fun anymore to see every sub turned into a meme?

I give it 2 days. After that people will stop tuning in as regularly.

Also traffic != money in regards of advertisers.

If traffic increases but the engagement lowers then that is a death blow to reddit.

The metric that got posted 1-2 days ago that engagement was cut down from 31 to 17 seconds during/after the blackout is huge and a metric the advertisers will look at.

This. If they insist on doing it make it so all of the posts have to be the same. It would be boring and pwolw would stop visiting.. The sub is open but there is no reason for people to visit it. It makes it easier to ween people off of reddit too

This is what I did after the disastrous AMA.
Deleted my history with reddact.
Uninstalled Reddit.
Uninstalled Apollo (crying).
I won't go on this platform anymore.
Although I'm missing some 'niche' communities such as antkeeping or those about specific incremental games..

Now I'm trying to filter all the communities that are on this topic.
Even if it's on the fediverse, speaking about Reddit gives them more visibility.

Blocking reddit in /etc/hosts works well too.

What would really piss off investors is if nobody used the site. Posting memes to and visiting the site you’re trying to protest doesn’t achieve anything.

Yeah, the "post pictures of steam, etc." stuff is funny for a one-off, but it's still technically content and it's not like reddit doesn't already have meme subs along those lines. I fear it will just become part of the culture after a while.

Easy enough to just never mod again and the porn will post itself. If spez complains, do the exact bare minimum like posting one single semi-relevant meme or telling off one single user that is definitely a bot so it doesn't care.

You're not camping, you're just being really laid back in your modding style.

Don't even need porn. Just have a wave of spambots poised and ready. There's a non-zero chance many of the big moderation tools will break, and moderators using the site/official app could be overwhelmed, and I'd not be surprised if some spam/repost bot operators were waiting for precisely that moment, because the mods would be more limited in what they can do/use.

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