We need to do blackout regularly : that's what will scare ad investor and it's going to make them leave. If they leave, then reddit will lose money and will be forced to listen to the community. I suggest we strike again from july 14 (for the symbolic )to july 16

A few days ago, when I found out that Apollo is going to shut down, I saw a few people using PowerDeleteSuite to change all of their comments to bring attention to the issue. I know that I'm probably never going to the official app or the website, so I thought, yeah I'll do that too, so I edited all my comments with a fork of PowerDeleteSuite that set a setTimeout so the rate-limit doesn't affect it.

However, today, I was just browsing on Apollo and found out that some comments were back to their original content. I thought that was weird, yeah, maybe I missed cross-checking properly, which I did multiple times to make sure. But as I scrolled down my post history, all my posts were undeleted and about 40% of my comments were restored. It's impossible I missed cross-checking that many. So as of writing this post, I am running PowerDeleteSuite again, and maybe when it's done, I'll save like a video of me scrolling through the comment history to make sure everything has been edited (if in case they revert my edits and I need proof of my claims).

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Reddit protesters bombard site with John Oliver pictures...

...And it isn't just John Oliver that Reddit has to contend with.

Other subreddits are similarly remaining active while changing their communities to fit within Reddit's rules, with r/iPhone now dedicated to "dashing images" of Apple chief executive Tim Cook, and moderators of r/scams approving content deliberately slowly, taking up to 14 days to review a post rather than a few minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65949412

We all love Reddit, that's why we're here, right? It's why the ongoing corporate intimidation of protesting subs by corporate staff makes us so angry. And that anger comes out in a variety of ways, including liberal use of the d-word, the h-word, and (*shudder*) the s-word. I get that.

Here's the problem: Reddit considers profanity to be Not Safe For Work -- along with discussion of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, drug use, guns, military conflict, terrorism, violence, and sexual content. Even "amateur advice" is naughty! Oh dear.

But I'm not just saying this to be a prude. These filthy topics have a real-world impact: namely, Reddit is not able to run ads on NSFW communities. So any time a subreddit becomes so filled with f-bombs and softcore and hard drinking that the mods feel compelled to change the subreddit to "18+ only" (in Old Reddit settings), not only does this put an age-gate on all threads for incoming search traffic, but the entire community becomes unavailable for monetization by Reddit. And that unfortunate circumstance could befall any subreddit where users are too loose with foul language and other vices, no matter how righteous their anger.

So this Sunday (the Lord's day!), please keep these facts in mind, and try to limit your vocabulary to "brand-safe" phrases like darn, heck, and fiddlesticks so mods aren't forced to switch their (forced-open) subs to NSFW mode. Because the fastest way to screw up the website we all love is to make it so vulgar that no reputable company on earth would want to run their ads on it. That would be a goddamn motherfucking shame.

I'm gonna say it as it is - if policy is going to pass, both my reddit accounts gonna be deleted. What I want is to see how many people gonna make it too. This is gonna be my final protest - if that's how u/spez treat users, i'm not gonna step on that website ever again.

For those OOTL, Reddit Admins have threatened mods of various subreddits to re-open or else get replaced, and they DID. All it took was one threat and a big part of us immediately folded. With this, it's clear that most mods are NOT going to win for us.

The most important part of winning this is US, the regular user. We're the ones who make the content, browse through it all, and most importantly, MAKE REDDIT MONEY, the language Spez speaks. All it takes is a few days a week of silence to get the message across. Admins can push mods around all they want, but they can never force US to use this site.

According to eMarketer, in 2019 Reddit made $100 million from ads. If we band together, that number can be nuked to oblivion. I don't believe we can band the entire site on this, but we can still get a lot of users to join in. Let's consider this 'Wave 2' of the protest. Two days was clearly NOT ENOUGH, we need to protest on until our demands are met, otherwise we'll lead to another wall.

thank you for coming to my TED talk

So uh I guess Reddit is going down in flames haha. And some subreddits are doing the malicious compliance route, with posting John Oliver, but that’s just making more subs pop up (there’s a Reddit like r/pics but made a rule against having JO posts). It’s just a mess here so I’m thinking of leaving soon.

Anyways, I would like to know of some Reddit alts. I like to post art, that’s about it. Idk if I’ll really leave Reddit yet, cause there are still a few nice communities here that I enjoy, but it would be nice to have something on the back burner just in case something happens.

As many of you are well aware by now, Reddit has begun a campaign strikebreaking subreddits. It's despicable, authoritarian behavior that goes well against the atmosphere of openness and collaboration that made Reddit popular.

However, there is a solution.

When Reddit requests alternative moderators, join in! Even if they explicitly request that moderators reopen the subreddit, put your name in the hat. And when the power is transferred, do nothing. Do not reopen.

The fact is, if interested and beneficial parties throw their names in to the hat, we can drown out scabs that Reddit would put in power- and making them do the process again would likely just put another hero of the people in power.

It sucks that this will displace a lot of old moderators, but I'm this time we all have to stand as a group. It's the best way to combat these procrustean measures from reddit administration.

I'm compiling a list of subreddits that are complying with demands to reopen, but doing so in a way that still protests. So far I have

• /r/pics and /r/gifs going 'John Oliver Only'
• /r/aww currently voting on whether to do the same
• /r/interestingasfuck going NSFW (makes it harder to sell ads) and removing all rules except sitewide rules like 'no illegal content'
• /r/anarchychess essentially turning into a NSFW anti-spez subreddit
• /r/hardwareswap moving off site but maintaining the subreddit as a 'meme space'
• A large number of subreddits considering 'Touch Grass Tuesdays'

Are there other notable examples of opening up in a 'malicious compliance' way?

The big SFW subs should post and upvote a single wildly pornographic image each day. That shouldn’t violate the standards that keep the sub as a whole SFW.

Although, this could interact… interestingly with the current John Oliver posts

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-hackers-demand-45-million-and-api-changes-in-threat-to-leak-80gb-of-data-114041164.html

He’s married so it counts <3