Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only
Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only
Hello, /r/Pics subscribers! Boy, what a whacky time we've all had lately, huh? Reddit decided to kill off third-party applications, a protest got...
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I'm torn, on one hand this is hilarious and if they didn't do this the admins would just change the moderators to someone who would run it. On the other hand, Reddit got what it wanted: the sub has reopened, posts are flowing, ads are being served and Reddit is making money.
i honestly doubt that the traffic R/pics had before this change will stay.
this is the best way honestly even better than restricted it will effectively hurt the traffic while they ( officially ) cant be dicks i mean they still can but you know.
Reddit could put a bot that just cycles through reposts from the last 15 years in the top 50 subs and the front page (and just bot-paste articles on all the news and politics subs) and the FP would be indistinguishable to the average r/all lurker.
Every sub is full of those bots already.
There's already a shitload of bots just copy-pasting comments and reposting old generic pics. I've noticed a huge increase of those over the past few months.
They will see a spike in revenue but people will get bored and stop caring about the sub after a while
They're following, but they're not gonna doom scroll that.