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.
"No such thing as bad publicity" comes to mind.
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)...
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.
Yeah, so true as long as there's engagement ,that's all that matters to them.
Start changing all the /r/ subreddit advertisements to /c/. That's the most strategic way to send the message.
Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.
They are aiming for this as a distraction
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.
The text in the german flag area translates to
u/spez is a son of a removed
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.
Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
Interesting. You can say fuck but son of a bitch is censored… what about son of a fuck?
u/spez is a son of bïtch
Is b word not allowed on lemmy.ml?
slurs in general are not allowed on lemmy.ml
Das glaub ich nicht Hurensohn
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.
Hmm. Testing to see: removed.
That's crazy, it even blocks my ex wife's name.
Ladies and/or gentlemen, this is a historic moment: the second coming of hunter2.
For anyone who wants to swear in german, just say
who rain zone
But fast
male descendant of a prostitute.
"Offspring of a harlot"
The flags are so braindead. Who gives a fuck about your country?
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
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.
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
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.
