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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The best troll would be to just openly allow actual direct link piracy on /r/piracy. if reddit bans /r/piracy, then it functionally re-privates the sub (the thing they wanted to avoid). And if they allow it, then it's a bastion of actual piracy. win-win!

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like the idea of trying to get as many DMCA requests against it as possible so that reddit has to deal with them

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

they wanted it open lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

"Scuttle the ship"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

That is a galaxy brain move.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Problem is, if it's privated or open, they can still point users to this community

Not possible if it's banned; another would probably take its place

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Never been an /r/piracy user, but this is so obviously the correct response that I feel embarrassed I didn't think of it as soon as I saw this drama being posted here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

but then they could simply put in their own mods. remove the original team and make the rules whatever they want while keeping it open