Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)...
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
Yeah, this was well played from reddit, they knew that r/place was one of the most popular things reddit ever did, so luring people back with it is excellent plan. They don't care shit about the fuck spez texts, they can now say that they broke engagement records, even without third party api's.
Sure, American advertisers don't like that, but foul language is all over Reddit, so that's not something that will drive advertisers away that would otherwise consider advertising on Reddit.
Right? It reminds me of those popular twitter right wingers that get exposure from negative publicity. People feel so smug and proud that they "dunked" on this loser who would otherwise be ignored and forgotten and instead they amplify and magnify the message.
Start changing all the /r/ subreddit advertisements to /c/. That's the most strategic way to send the message.
I like kbin, but there's no mobile apps for it (writing one, but I can't find any accurate API documentation)
Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.
They've already used one CEO as a fall guy (er... fall gal). Not that I'm a fan, but do we really think spez is the one person in charge of all the stuff going down?
Yes and no. CEOs do have autonomy but in a case like Reddit they are also beholden to the Board of Directors. They make commitments/predictions/projections for the board all toward the ultimate end of working toward a high return on investment for the members of the board and other shareholders. The CEO is then responsible to make these things come true and has autonomy to do things as he sees fit. But if the board has enough power, in any case where they don’t like how the CEO is performing, they will eventually vote to remove him.
You can swear on the internet. Violence? Gore? No problem!
A bad word? Son of a removed, we're all going to die.
Edit: Wtf, there is a swear filter? Fuck.
What pearl clutching son of a bitch at lemmy.ml decided its users were too fragile to hear the word "bitch"? And here's the real question, can you read ot or does it censor mine? Because if you can read it then what's the point of censoring your own users?
Edit: yeah Kbin lets you say it.
If the swear is posted on kbin, and viewed on kbin, it is not censored. Which is why I can view 'bitch' when posted by kbin folks. And I assume they can read mine.
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment. The word gets immediately replaced when you post. I'd like to know what words are forbidden, is there a list somewhere?
Just to test how the filter behaves: Bi.tch.
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment.
Correction: No one browsing through your specific server can read it. The rest of us see it just fine.
From where I'm sitting, it seems like the filter is applied (a) when a lemmy.ml user makes a post (it strips it from the source and says removed for everyone) and (b) when lemmy.ml federates another instance's comment over (source instance and any other non-censored federated instance has the word intact, ONLY you guys don't see it).
The filter is a text matching regex, and not terribly verbose. Very easy to circumvent
That’s how the Fediverse works. That word is constantly used in inflammatory comments. Don’t like the rules, then leave.
I meant how the fediverse works as in each instance can have its own rules and if you don’t like the rules you find a different instance.
Or stay and rightfully criticize the instances that use words filters.
Here's a wild idea: word filters are the most brain-dead way to deal with a problem. They don't understand context -- you can't even use a "bad word" so people understand what you're denouncing. You can't share your experience with being called a removed.
They're also easily bypassed with odd spellings by people that are going to use a "no no word" to be assholes.
But my point was that ‘bitch’ was being censored in his comment, but not ‘fuck’
So it’d still be fuck a removed
Plus I gotta be honest, not a fan of that one. Like how people aren’t a fan on moist.
Changing it to "removed" instead just drives the euphemism treadmill faster, people will find ways to say the same without those specific words. Whether something is a slur is also very context-dependent. Something computers as of yet aren't well equipped to handle.
Just fyi, i used the w word because it is the most accurate translation. Hurensohn means Sohn einer Hure, Son einer Hure, Son of a Hure, Son of a removed
A lot of translations of "Spez ist ein hurensohn" translates to "Spez is a son on of a bitch" -- although "hurensohn" is more literally "whore's son"
Edit: Seems like it's just your instance (lemmy.ml)
Iirc, lemmy.ml is a specifically leftist instance, right? They may have banned the word because of its sexist nature. A bit like allowing fuck, but not allowing the other f word that generally applies to gay men. Swearing isn't the issue, slurs or derogatory terms are.
What a joke is this the US? For europeans these swear words are fine. u/spez ist ein HÜR3ns0hn
Normally, I would agree with you. But, I would like to offer a different point of view simply because this is a platform on the internet where the vast majority of the users seem to be from the US.
On a project like r/place, I kind of see that as a showing of people saying hey, we use this site, we are here everyday, there's lots of us, and we're from this country!
um, excuse me sweaty, but imaginary lines on the earth are the most important thing imaginable and we must worship them!
also: /s because i am not being serious
Yeah, I find it frightening. It indicates a lot of blind nationalism on a fairly passionate level. Nothing good comes from that.
Blind nationalism is certainly bad, but I don't really think that's the reason all the flags are so numerous and big:
TL;DR: r/place is just conducive to flags. also i had 10 mins to burn so i wrote all this for some reason idk
Higher traffic stats means higher user engagement. It helps with higher valuation for the IPO.
If you want to hurt them, remove your content, do a GDPR request, and disengage. Focus on the Fediverse instead.
The timing, the bots, the board, everything about this edition just feels weird... Definitely doesn't spark the same joy as earlier editions. Could've expected this ofcourse, just sad that a good decent thing is burning to ground
I completely don't care about this 3rd edition... first and second one I placed pixel every 5 minutes, this one I just saw it because of this post and the result is pathetic
Only reason to bring r/pics now instead of April 1st was to drive the engagement, and by looks of it Reddit succeeded immensely in that.
They baited people and everyone bit it.
I don't think anyone at Reddit cares what message is passed through this as long as they get traffic.
They are like Velma of social media
They only waited one year when we had to wait 5 years for the previous one. No they're fooling us
I wonder if there are any shared canvas things like this outside of Reddit? The idea is pretty neat.
There was a website that did this like 20 years ago. Hell if I can find it. Was called something like the one million project.
The Million Dollar Homepage. Some guy made a 1000x1000 canvas and sold every pixel for $1. Lots of dot-com tech companies bought little banners and stuff.
I remember Drawball being pretty popular on 4chan back in the mid 2000s. It was a lot of fun.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/drawball
Someone has done a similar thing here: https://drawball.io
What is this supposed to accomplish?
"Hey Spez, we're going to use your site, consume the ads you give us, pay for useless premium features, drive up engagement, and participate in your meaningless events but fuck you so take that" - average Redditor
that used to be the average redditor
I would say the average has gotten much much worse if morons like me got fed up with the greedy little pigboy
The only difference now is the "fuck spez" part. All those redditors aren't redditors anymore.
oh god it's pathetic... I remember very well the first r/place, then the second one was super cool too! But this one, wow, super pathetic :-( shame on reddit...
I mean employees aren't dumb and any opportunity to make management look stupid for stupid decisions that likely cost themselves (remember they get stock) money they will 100% take.
I never actually visited r/place, but it seems like it's just drawball copied by Reddit. Is that accurate?
/r/places is a thing on Reddit where people cooperate to make art. People are using that opportunity to lambast Reddit at Reddit's expense
Nope. They have brought in the corporate ghoul consultants. There is no context or feeling the situation. Just "oh, this was really popular last time, let's continue milking it, what could go wrong".