It would appear there’s currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased
Video in action hosted here
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/
Dragging a physical guillotine out onto the lawn of Steve’s house might be a bit much. Maybe. But this is a purely graphical, metaphorical depiction of people’s frustration. It’s not a real death threat.