this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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The Subreddit WellThatSucks has changed their rules so it's now only accepting vaccume cleaners

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[–] fsniper@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Even though the malicious compliance of this and the rest is fantastic, this is not really harming Reddit management much. It's harming through decreasing the signal to noise ratio of the data, that's for sure. However, usage of the environment shows increase. This is still serving their purpose.

Exactly. With the IPO coming up, they can claim high engagement which is why I personally think that the best move is to not engage at all.

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