this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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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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You know, the Nintendo character doing completely normal things, but a constant flood of nothing but. Would be pretty funny. Sounds like a cool and fun thing to do.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 19 points 3 weeks ago

Negative engagement is still engagement. Engagement drives their revenue. Even if things were forcefully taken down it would hit the news cycle, bringing more engagement.

The best path forward is to simply ignore the site.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago

That's not malicious compliance, that's a possible form of protest

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

On a shuttle I took the other day in Northern Michigan.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Luigi for Vice/President