• losttourist@kbin.socialOP
    130·
    2 years ago

    We’re not actually that small, we have about 90k subscribers. But we’re still small fry compared to many that are closed.

    In the spirit of malicious compliance, if anyone has any suggestions for what /r/Commandline could become, I’d be delighted to hear them!

    • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
      83·
      2 years ago

      Make it a NSFW sub to mess with their advertising. Something like only allowing pictures of dominatrix culture with the titles being dominatrix-style commands.

    • Untitled9999@kbin.social
      38·
      2 years ago

      Turn it into an NSFW subreddit, as others are doing, because then Reddit can’t run ads on the subreddit.

      Also, their whole spiel about subreddits being for users, who you are letting down, is obviously a crock of shit. They care about one thing only - money. They care about being able to continue financing their BMWs, because God forbid they have to ride the bus.

      • luckystarr@feddit.de
        0·
        2 years ago

        This is great. Reddit wants to use it’s data to be fed to large language models, though not for free anymore. This poisons the data, making it less relevant.

        • IninewCrow@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          That would be an amazing project a group could take part in … just have a whole host of users post irrelevant data that sort of sounds acceptable but is complete nonsense. Post usual stuff but with a twist in everything. Use bad grammar, misplaced words, unusual syntax, falsehoods, lies and just general nonsense … over and over again.

    • Badabinski@kbin.social
      31·
      2 years ago

      Perhaps only allow users to post titles and comments that are a command and a line? Like this: ⌘–

      EDIT: and have that be the only moderation restriction going forward besides things that would get the subreddit removed. The more relevant the post is to the literal words “command” and “line” and the unicode symbols I posted, the better.

      EDIT: correction, I posted an endash. Something like a box drawing line would be better, i.e. ⌘─

      • JonEFive@kbin.social
        8·
        2 years ago

        well, yes and no. It’s an attempt to force the sub open and give the “option” to no longer moderate. They’re perfectly willing to part ways with you as a moderator as long as it gets the sub open. Their view is that everyone is replaceable.

    • hypelightfly@kbin.social
      18·
      2 years ago

      They appear to be picking subreddits that would be high on search results. I can see how command line would fit.

      If you have a way to find out what posts are returned most often through search engines you can remove them.

      • JonEFive@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        change community rules to apply retroactively that in order to maintain freshness and improve visibility of smaller posts, anything over x days old or over x karma will be removed.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      5·
      2 years ago

      I just received the same notice for my “largest” subreddit with 1.3k subs. But not my 500 or so sub ones. It’s been a fairly deadish sub for 2 years so I was surprised to get a notice.

      Must be a mass mailing, maybe minimum traffic or sub count filter?

      Fuck em. Might just nuke it and delete all posts.

      • MerylasFalguard@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        They’ll just restore it if you nuke it. Better to make the sub NSFW so they can’t make ad revenue off of it and set it so that all posts must be mod-approved, then only approve like one post every month so you can show as still being active.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
          6·
          2 years ago

          I really don’t care enough. I admin a lemmy instance now. As soon as Apollo stops working I don’t plan on logging in again.

          I’ve heard they’re restoring users that nuke their own posts, but I’m not sure I’ve heard anyone nuking a whole sub before. Mine is small enough to fly under a radar maybe?

    • grahamsz@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Sun Tzu: “If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame."

      The Line of Command key not just in warfare but in business and politics. I’m really excited to have a subreddit where I can discuss the different managements style exhibited by today’s leaders.

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Something that has me curious, is why have so many subs chosen John Oliver specifically? Like his content is pretty good and all, you could certainly do worse, but it seems an oddly specific subject matter to choose, unless there’s some reason.

        • IncognitoWolf@kbin.social
          31·
          2 years ago

          John Oliver is a good sport about it, one, secondly he is a goofy motherfucker, third he has a track record of calling out things for being shitty/bad in ridiculous ways. So, it’s totally a John Oliver thing to do, to make all of Reddit about John Oliver because of the API change. It’s silly, it calls out the shitty practices, and honestly the whole practice will stick in the minds of people better than just a blackout/complaining. On top of all this, it has the possibility of being brought to his show when the strike is over, which’ll further the goal of the protests

    • AnonTwo@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Every line that anyone speaks has to be proceeded with proper syntax ECHO speak or removed. Responses should always be whatever they said, followed by C:\

      “ECHO What command should I use to generate this?”

      What command should I use to generate this?
      C:\>

      If they try to type anything other than echo, just say the command is not valid or not found

    • projectazar@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Only allow scripts or commands or tools that allow downloading or displaying or managing sexy pics of John Oliver. I.E. “This CLI will automatically download John Oliver pics from r/pics and covert them to ascii art.”

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 years ago

      In the spirit of malicious compliance, if anyone has any suggestions for what /r/Commandline could become, I’d be delighted to hear them!

      Posts must be images which are exactly 1 pixel wide. Post titles must all be the word “command”. No text allowed under the images.

    • EvilMonkeySlayer@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Allow NSFW content as well, that way reddit gets no money from you regardless as you have to flag it as a NSFW subreddit which means no ads.

    • doleo@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago
      • ‘sticky’ posts of command M strips.
      • lines of coke, replaced by command M strips
      • command m lines over pornographic images.

      Aw, I like command m strips

    • 34@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Only regular expression commands, that way the 99.9% of us will never understand the content.

    • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’d say allow everything! No restrictions. If a user thinks it’s appropriate, it is, barring site wide rules. Let them see what value moderation brings.

    • esc27@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      1. Create a strict commandline syntax that all posts must follow

      2. Require all posts to be proper code for any command line syntax, but they must be tagged for that syntax

      3. Only allow pictures of people directing lines of people or traffic (commanding lines)

    • Will Johnathan
      01·
      2 years ago

      My solution would be: reopen the sub. If lot of traffic, drastically lower the quality of everything. Reposts, unrelated posts, unfunny memes, shitposts, let them flood. The price is the lowered quality of the community (which may be fixable, may be not). If little traffic, make ridiculously strict rules. “The sub is not restricted, its just people not following the rules” Very malicious (and unfunny) compliance. Of course ask whether your community is fine with all that.

      • JonEFive@kbin.social
        7·
        2 years ago

        depends on the desires of the majority of the community I would say. If the majority of the community says they want to change the community, then who are we to disagree? I’d vote for the change. Unfortunately for that vote, I haven’t been on Reddit since before the blackout. The only reason I’ll be going back will be to delete some/all of my posts.

        • losttourist@kbin.socialOP
          21·
          2 years ago

          Yes, once I’ve had a few ideas that we like the sound of, we fully intend to offer the sub’s users a genuine vote on its future. If nothing else, it will stop Reddit admins from simply saying that we’re going against the members’ wishes.

          Either way, once the new rules are in place and the sub is open I’ll personally be quitting as a moderator and leaving Reddit completely because I no longer wish to devote my unpaid labour to such a company.

          • Badabinski@kbin.social
            5·
            2 years ago

            I’ve been a long time subscriber to /r/commandline and I’ll be voting yes to continued disobedience if it comes to that.

        • NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social
          11·
          2 years ago

          Probably not, but I was never in favor of theatrics like the submarine and the drugs. No need to be around a bunch of little deluded dupes.

  • WytchStar@kbin.social
    19·
    2 years ago

    We have a duty to keep these spaces alive

    What’s this “we” shit? You mean You. You, faceless corporation, have a duty to keep the communities open and accessible by as many eyeballs as your little ads can handle. Mods are unpaid employees that manage your toxic users and keep your website profitable. You pushed too hard. You took too much for granted. And now you think you’re not the next Digg.

    • flambonkscious
      6·
      2 years ago

      I reported the board of reddit for self-harm before all the blackouts were happening… Got the token auto-response as expected

  • Kettlepants@lemm.ee
    16·
    2 years ago

    I still can’t get over the audacity and sheer hubris of Reddit demanding that volunteers get back to work.

  • Dick Justice@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    Literally an email saying to get yer asses back to work. To the literal free workers. The fucking audacity of it all.

  • kerplunk@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    I assumed commandline was a NSFW BDSM community to discuss the directions Doms give to their Subs.

    Prove me right.

  • trynn@kbin.social
    9·
    2 years ago

    ASCII pictures of John Oliver?
    Alternatively, only allow discussions about how to set up or use kbin/lemmy/other fediverse software from the command line?

  • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
    5·
    2 years ago

    They sure like talking down to volunteer moderators as if they’re disgruntled employees and not the betrayed former free revenue generators that they were.

  • a_large_rock@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    User poll in the subreddit, so that you’re meeting the desires of the users. Do they want John oliver or nsfw content? They get to decide!

    • losttourist@kbin.socialOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’ll definitely be doing a poll, but as well as a couple of malicious compliance options, one of the choices will be to return to how things were before, and I might also throw in a “stay dark” option. Whatever happens I don’t want Reddit admins to be able to turn around and say “you are going against the wishes of the users of the sub”.

    • Cows Look Like Maps
      2·
      2 years ago

      Fill with sudo insult user failed password attempts? But just text, no memes so it doesn’t backfire and increase traffic.

  • BigVault@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Command; give an authoritative or peremptory order

    Line; stand or be positioned at intervals

    Queue here signs.