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It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased (lemmy.world)
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It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

Video in action hosted here

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Per The Verge:

When asked if Reddit will remove the protesting messages [nb: "fuck /u/spez"], spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr pointed to the r/Place canvas rules. One of those rules says that “targeted hate or harassment of private individuals (including mods and admin) and protected groups are violations of our [content] policy (Rule 1) and will be removed. In addition, posts, comments, and imagery that are hateful, graphic, sexually-explicit, and / or offensive are violations of our policy (Rule 6) and will be removed.”

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

At least I don't see any games I play in those screenshots. Am seeing a lot of the same designs I remember from last year, though, which really drives home why it should be a rare event. How boring.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Half the board is still covered in it though :)

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

There might be a couple reasons for that.

One, they could be leaving the milder stuff as a plausible deniability thing. Like, "Of course we aren't steamrolling the negative stuff, look how much is there!" while quietly removing the worse stuff.

Two, and this one is my favorite, with the mods on bad terms with the admins, the admins ironically just may not have the tools to keep up with the rest of the community and are settling for just erasing the worst stuff.

Also, I saw a theory yesterday that bringing back r/place could be a baiting tactic to take names and quietly ban the users who still have ill will towards the admins. If that's the case, they may be leaving that stuff up intentionally and taking names...