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[–] 46 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 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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  • [–] 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 (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 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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    [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny

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

    Yeah, I find protesting Reddit by using Reddit to be incredibly stupid. Just leave and don't touch it at all, if their user metrics and site traffic are so low, then they're just gonna lose their advertisers, which is probably one of their main sources of income.

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

    Honorable mention to the people giving shooting star awards (you know, the EXPENSIVE one) to all of the comments on /r/place. Sure did show them there didn't you!

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

    Don't participate. It's a literal trap. Fuck spez by using Lemmy, friends.

    I love seeing this, but they hold all the cards... They will censor all of this.

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

    These people cannot control themselves. They're protesting a company by making them money.

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

    Lurker on Reddit, first comment on Lemmy. Let us hope this will become the better alternative 🙏

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    It's also being griefed using obvious bots. Every 30 seconds or so the entire blade gets blocked out by a perfect checkerboard pattern done all at once. Or a perfect square will get whited out. Either spez is directing it or some reddit fanboy is defending his honor with a bot army

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Am I the only one who thinks place is lame? It’s just another Reddit circle jerk and everyone is falling for it hook line and sinker. Shit like this reminds me why the human population is mentally deficient and why politicians have such an easy time controlling us.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Anyone else remember when they had the last CEO institute a ton of egregious shit and then instead of running it back, they replaced her with spez and everyone then forgot about it?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Still engagement.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Just leave, ffs. It's annoying that in the end of the day people still remain in droves. The only hope is that reddit drives itself into being unusable.

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