I’m trying to transition off of reddit completely and I dislike what they have done. But that being said, I thought it was quite honorable of them to not censor the ‘fuck spez’, be it comments throughout the site or on /r/Place. They even left the giant fuck spez ending in the official time lapse of /r/Place and the highest ranked post is a screen shot of the same.

They have many reasonable sounding excuses available to censor excessive use of the word ‘fuck’, and I don’t see how they benefit by leaving it up there. It’s not like censoring swear words is beyond the pale compared to other things they have done. They didn’t even need to do /r/Place, they knew full well what was going to happen but they did it anyways.

I know many people think this is some 4D chess move or a fear of the Streisand effect. They are not that clever.

I just wanted to point out that it does in fact look like they have a line that they won’t cross and they are holding to it.

Also, fuck spez.

  • klemptor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    I think reddit probably prefers that the hate is concentrated on spez. In their view, a giant FUCK SPEZ is probably way better than a giant FUCK REDDIT.

    • all-knight-party@fedia.io
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s a little sad that it’s become the catchphrase of this whole situation. Of course Reddit wants you to just hate that one guy, he’s the fall guy. I would hope people don’t expect the company to do any different without him, they’ve proven time and time again that they’ve got one direction to go in regardless of who’s running it.

      It’s just impossible to get people to say “fuck reddit” en masse because of the separation between Reddit the website we all upkept and created the content of, and Reddit the company making all of these decisions

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Their hand was forced. It was already bad PR, but it would have only been worse and fanned the flames if they vandalized it any more than they already did.

  • Octomagnus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Spez is know to alter comments. There is no line they won’t cross.

    I’m sure this is the exception, not the rule.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      as they took over more subs, even with automated tooling, time starts getting pulled to dealing with those subs in one way or another, no indication they have hired a bunch of new people and they have had to take on the work of thousands of mods.

      • Octomagnus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Good point, they are probably short on resources as they scramble to retool their staff to cover for the absent mods.

    • PopularUsername@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I don’t want to defend spez, buuuuut, it was /r/the_donald, and it was kinda funny. It was not like a covert operation to change the dialog, it was obvious what happened when it happened, it was a troll move. Still inappropriate no doubt, but like, not the same as a disinformation campaign.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Even though Reddit knew that r/Place would attract an obvious message, what’s left after it’s done?
    Reddit has already shown they’re contemptuous of their users and do not care about their opinions.

    Is a protest that boosts site engagement really effective to a site that exists because of engagement?

    I don’t think I’m being cynical when I say I think bringing back r/Place was a means to juice their numbers - a way to cover up falling user engagement.
    My suspicion is they’re trying to buy time to come up with a better plan. r/Place represents another month of fooled advertisers.

  • azdood85@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Yall realize that it doesnt matter how many users on the platform say fuck spez.

    But the fact that those users are still using the platform is what investors/shareholders care about.

    If people really want to fuck spez, then they wouldnt be on reddit. But who am I kidding, these are the same people who said fuck myspace, fuck facebook, fuck twitter… and still have accounts on them.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I think they believed it would be a way for users to air out their frustrations and now that they got all the ‘fuck spez’ out of their systems, Reddit will be just fine.

    I’m not sure they’re correct.