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[–] 46 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, I'm sure that's a "silent majority" of users who support everything that Reddit The Company does banding together to stamp out the minority of noisy rabble-rousers. /s

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?

    All the pixels came in at the same time

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It's clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wasn't an admin caught doing something similar last time place came around?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Random pixels? At this time of Reddit? In this part of r/place? Localized entirely on spez's head?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's how it has always been for all places. Admins have the power to erase anything that goes against Reddit's ToS. Depicting spez under the guillotine is against their ToS, but writing "fuck spez" isn't, which is why one gets deleted and the other remains.

    It makes sense IMO. It's just like admins having the power to erase swastikas, homophobic or transphobic content, blatant product advertisements and so on. Nothing wrong with it, IMO.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    They didnt depict him being decapitated, but his Snoo (i believe those are called Snoos) being decapitated. I think those are two entirely different things, especially given the french revolution theme around it.

    Admins are being pussies imo. (After making a very bad decision in returning /r/place) They are of course fully within their right to, and that's why reddit sucks.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Writing "spez" on the face of the alien was probably a mistake if they didn't want to get censored.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    True, but I don't think the message comes across the same without it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think there's too much focus on spez and not enough on Reddit. He is making some bad decisions for sure, but in the end the problem with Reddit is much greater than whoever happens to be the CEO.

    It's easy to direct hate towards an individual, but I think it might not be particularly fruitful.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The problem with reddit is, in my opinion, inherent to the way it's designed. I think that similar to a monarchy, the previous system needs to be forgotten and improved upon. (Not to say that the aftermath of the French Revolution was a great improvement) Whether its spez or anyone else, you cannot make Reddit a healthy platform and go public.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I didn't know you could up/downvote on imgur. I wonder where all the downvotes came from...

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    lol yes there's a whole underground imgur social network full of users unaware that imgur was originally just an image hosting website for reddit. By default the images I uploaded were private but I decided to click the button to make them a public post just out of curiousity of what imgur's opinion on the matter might be. Turns out it's not interesting for them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It was hilariously bizarre when it was discovered that a population of mole people had been living inside reddit's image host for some period of time. Especially since they were were getting up in arms about how much reddit content was crowding up the site.

    Wonder what life's like in there these days.

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