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!
Make it all quotes from the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket.
Any drill instructor should do. Medic!
Would you like to know more?
That’s not a drill instructor line. You’re not doing your part!
You take a stroll down washout lane. Do you get me?
I somehow managed to read this in the voice of John Oliver
That’s it, command line needs to become ASCII images of John Oliver
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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.
Yep, nsfw means no ads.
Also set it so a mod has to approve every post before it shows.
That way the sub is technically up and they can’t take it or make money off it.
Only pics of people going commando with visible tan lines
Jesus … lol … that’s hilirious … but also they said activity to make the site less attractive, not more attractive
Well, it being not safe for work does make it less attractive to advertisers.
This is my favorite, by far.
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. ⌘─
Lines from Command and Conquer.
Here’s my submission idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
SPACE
Kirov reporting
That was left handed.
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.
Each post must be precisely the word “comm”.
Each comment must be precisely the word “line”.
Comm and line.
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.
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.
This is an attempt to force the sub open and retain your free moderating services.
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.
Apparently that’s what Huffman learned from Musk
“Welcome to Com Man D Line. I’m your man on coms, what can I tell you about the D today?”
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.
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.
All posts could require l33t speak. Go full in on the “I’m a early 2000s hacker because I can ping Google” vibe.
reminds me of /(thatothersite)/itsaunixsystem
All posts must be pictures from the movie Hackers.
Hack the planet!
There is a high demand for scripts involving the package PRAW.
How about just opening without trolling?
It’s not trolling
It’s kind of trolling. Protest trolling? Trolling with a cause? Either way, I’m for it!
‘Malicious compliance’ is the phrase
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.
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.
I’ve been a long time subscriber to /r/commandline and I’ll be voting yes to continued disobedience if it comes to that.
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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.
Found Spez!
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.
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.
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?
Open the sub but only allow ChatGPT prompts
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.
"All posts must be self-posts formatted as code and must only be *nix/Mac/Windows command line input.
No link posts allowed.
All comments must be formatted as code and must only be *nix/Mac/Windowsal command line output. "Lines from Command & Conquer the game of course.
Title: a command
Body: Output result of that commandASCII pictures of John Oliver within command lines/terminals
This was my immediate thought too!
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.
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
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.
Where can I find you federated?
marching band pictures
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
bdsm equivilant of those wincest caption pics that are so popular? or line dancing pics/gifs/vids of people in uniform
Only regular expression commands, that way the 99.9% of us will never understand the content.
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.”
Quotes from Zapp Brannigan.
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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.
Do nothing but rude code!
DO UNTIL 0=1
LOAD SUGUARO CACTUS INTO OBJECT BUTTHOLE (SPEZ)
LOOPSexy pictures of John Oliver, of course.
Make it a rule that all post be NSFW so Reddit can’t monetize it
- ‘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
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.
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Create a strict commandline syntax that all posts must follow
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Require all posts to be proper code for any command line syntax, but they must be tagged for that syntax
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Only allow pictures of people directing lines of people or traffic (commanding lines)
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I assumed commandline was a NSFW BDSM community to discuss the directions Doms give to their Subs.
Prove me right.
Yes Daddy :)
What are you doing step-bro senpai!?!?
I got my goon squad ultimatum today.
I reported the message as harassment.
I still can’t get over the audacity and sheer hubris of Reddit demanding that volunteers get back to work.
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.
Nice ad for lemmy/kbin, thanks reddit!
Maybe John Oliver photos turned into ASCII art with https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/
Literally an email saying to get yer asses back to work. To the literal free workers. The fucking audacity of it all.
Command; give an authoritative or peremptory order
Line; stand or be positioned at intervals
Queue here signs.
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Change everything to a link to kbin?
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?All post must be screenshots of OS/2
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.
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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!
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”.
