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Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit gives Reddit the finger by designating itself NSFW and posting dozens of nude Vs

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  • doesnt even sound like a protest, it's a nsfw game

    • Right? I can slice a gonk stem to stern with mantis blades and post that and it's not NSFW? but heaven forbid we see V's hanging dong. I'll have to clutch my digital pearl necklace.

  • The article said that r/Pics and r/military have surrendered for the good of their communities. I mean, r/Pics could make that mistake, but r/military??? You understand it's MUCH easier to just execute your POWs than treat them humanely, right? Unfortunately, the mods are about to discover there's no Geneva Conventions for Reddit to prevent just that. Maybe they meant for this to be a teaching moment?

    Within the year, once the protests have really died down, those mods will be purged. 100% guarantee it. The ONLY case where they survive is if Reddit wants to show how fair and magnanimous they are to the community. Of course, any further test of that will be get them nuked from orbit.

    • But everyone knows not to execute your own leadership because who is going to run the day to day ops? It’ll take years just to get back to where they were in terms of quality and quantity because they nuked some of the most experienced and engaged redditors. More of a Pyrrhic victory, I’d say.

      • Good point. I think they could navigate around most of the trouble if they get some distance from the protest.

        One of three things could happen:

        1. Reddit buckles to unhappy investors (whom doubt Reddit brass has control) and actually hires a small group of moderators for subs with X million users or Y activity.
        2. They slowly remove them one-by-one, replacing them with mods from other subs. e.g.- Contact the mods of r/(some other picture subreddit), sent them a DM, "We noticed your sub is very similar to r/Pics. To make the community blah blah, we're trying to expand the mod teams of our most active subreddits. Would you be willing to help mod r/Pics some small amount, and in return we'll help recruit more mods for r/(some other picture sub)?" Or they'll frame it as a test strategy or test of new mod tools.
        3. Same as #2, but quickly and all protest supporting mods at once. Take the PR hit, counter with "new tools", ignore the backlash.
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