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/
No, it’s exclusively admins using admin tools. Check the pixels for the usernames that placed them.
What users are voluntarily pro-spez (and by voluntarily, I mean their paychecks aren't jeopardized by dissention)?
I have met plenty of anti-spez users, and I have met plenty of users who just DNGAF, but I have yet to meet a single actual bona fide user who is 'pro-spez'.
Some people just like to be contrarian. Others have been fed up with the protests because they themselves were not impacted, they are the ultimate narcissists.
I've seen some Simping. Could be Trolls, could be quietly on the payroll. Same kind of people simping for Musk.
That's the real thing. This all didn't have to go down like this. Asking for a small API fee is sane. Having a small amount of transactions per month free would have allowed all the mod tools to continue to operate, hell even registered dev accounts. This problem as been solved a thousands times over.
But all this landed gentry bull shit and complete tonedef messaging. He's just another ass who's going to write his company into the ground.
For me it was the AMA that was the last straw. It was so disingenuous - all the responses had been pre-written and were copied and pasted from other previously written stock, the only answered questions were cherry-picked from reddit shills, and the several dozen most upvoted questions were completely ignored and never responded to. The very concept of "AMA" is an idea that was birthed on reddit, for reddit, and the foundational core tenets of AMA were ignored and disregarded. Ignored and disregarded...is also exactly what they think of their users, subreddit moderators, and 3rd party developers.
there are pro u/spez users?
It's the admins, people either hate spez or don't give AF.
Some include Spez and all his alt accounts
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.”
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.
Half the board is still covered in it though :)
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...
Are they talking about spez the dipshit or spez the cuck?
First one, then the other.
Yes
Last year right before closing there were some big changes as though bots came in. I will be surprised if it isnt the same again this year removing anti spez or reddit content.
There's a new r/place event?
yeah, for some incredibly dense reason, they decided to do the new place event NOW. It's like they're going all P.T. Barnum any news is good news
interestingasfuck