Reddit's r/place is back!
Have the Reddit admins chosen a rather bad time to launch it, given the very recent changes they made leading to anger, blackouts and protests? Given the timing, they may have just given their loudest critics a platform to continue making their point!
One month after launch (the closing date of this market) I will visit r/place and set it to show the top posts from the past month. I will count how many of the top 20 posts are in some way anti-Reddit, anti-admin, anti-Spez or in some other way using the platform to protest or criticise. I will also include any posts which are referencing protest and criticism. If that number is 10 or more, this will resolve to YES.
Here are some of the sort of posts which would count:
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154s3g0/omg_the_germans_are_not_holding_back/
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154s6bi/what_a_start/
Market notes:
There is a subjective element to this market, so I will not trade myself
If a post is only partly anti-Reddit, I will lean towards counting it. So something like this would count becuase the "fuck Spez" wording is unavoidable - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154rtpk/rplace_2023_1_hour_after_start/
At the time of creating this market, setting r/place to show me the top posts of the last month is showing me last year's top posts instead. I think this is becuase r/place has only just come back, but if that's still not working on 20th July, I will use the top posts of the last week instead - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/top/?sort=top&t=week
Remember that Reddit's admins have the power to delete, lock, hide or remove content that they don't like. So if they manage to surppress enough negative content, this may end up resolving NO even though users have been consistently posting and upvoting that content!
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3.00Here's what I see as the top 20 when I visit https://www.reddit.com/r/place/top/?sort=top&t=month right now:
1 - Claim your I was here ticket - YES - a picture of Reddit's grave and a screenshot which clearly says "fuck Spez"
2 - CEO. Upvote this so when people search for cea this picture will come up. - YES
3 - claim your "i was here" ticket here - NO - you can see "fuck Spez" on the screenshot, but it's no more emphasised than it has to be to be a screenshot of r/Place
4 - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/159lksc/claim_your_i_was_here_ticket/ - YES the image is focussed on the "fuck Spez message
5 - Let's do this together - YES more Fuck Spez
6 - I join too, i'll give away 10k coins to everyone in the comments in 24 hours! - YES. This one is quite borderline but the meme is entirely dedicated to criticising Reddit's servers and I did say that I'd lean towards including something if it was partially anti-Reddit
7 - I will give away 30K coins to everyone in the comments in 24 hours! FUCK Reddit Coins - YES "fuck Reddit coins"
8 - *It's the end. - YES Fuck Spez
9 - 8 hours of Bad Apple (Higher Quality Timelapse) - NO
10 - Admins ruined R/place - YES the title and meme are anti-admin
11 - They Actually, Finally, Pulled it Off - NO
12 - r/place Full Timelapse - 2023 - NO, the "fuck Spez" messaging is clear, but no more emphasised than it has to be in a timelapse of r/Place
13 - Reddit. Upvote this picture so that it comes up when people searches up Reddit - YES Fuck Spez photoshopped over Place
14 - Which player are you? - NO
15 - r/place in a nutshell. - NO
16 - And f*** u/spez - YES the meme says that r/place was crap, the title says Fuck Spez
17 - Me, not being a part of any particular community, but covering up random mismatched pixels I find. - NO
18 - I offer free labor - NO
19 - It is the truth - NO
@SimonGrayson So I make that 10 posts out of 20 which are anti-Reddit meaning that this should resolve YES.
@SimonGrayson Thanks for the clarification! I’d be so grateful if you could resolve this ASAP cuz I put all my mana in it 😆
@ShadowyZephyr Actually, I changed my mind. @SimonGrayson has an expansive definition of anti-Reddit, so it seems the giving-away-coins post would count.
@oh I don't think the coin giveaways that don't explicitly say "fuck" or "fuck spez" or anything like that should count. Even the one that says "fuck" is iffy beacuse there's an unrelated meme under it.
@ShadowyZephyr One says “F*** Reddit coins” in the title, which is criticizing a Reddit feature, and the other is a meme that criticizes how Reddit seemingly devotes more resources to r/place than the sites’s video player.
The creator here says “I will also include any posts which are referencing protest and criticism” and “If a post is only partly anti-Reddit, I will lean towards counting it,” which together indicate he’ll count them.
@oh Okay. I don't think the one with the meme should count, criticism of slow services is normal and not at all exclusive to reddit. I wouldn't say it's anti-reddit as a whole, just making a joke.
@ShadowyZephyr I hear that, and at the same time, the description requires criticism of Reddit, and does not exclude criticism that is also levied against other platforms or criticism phrased in the form of a joke.
The hate against r/place is that the event is a means of admins whitewashing the platform while ignoring, and sometimes creating, significant problems. Users have been leaving because of this, so r/place is an attempt to retain them.
The meme was posted in this context and amplifies these common sentiments. The user points out the irony in Reddit neglecting their core product by not fixing video quality, an issue widely complained about for a while by users. The user is giving away coins because they are reducing or stopping their Reddit use, so the coins will have no value to them.