It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

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We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.

Truly, a harm for the platform when the moderators of /r/assesgonewild take their subreddit private for a week in protest. So far up their asses.

Read: “Our users got so pissed at us that it jeopardized our IPO. Now it could actually effect something like our stock price, so fuck 'em”. Seriously people, just leave

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my guess would be old.reddit disappearing.

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I went back after the original purge since some niche communities are dead here but… OMG if they do this I will finally be free of them.

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old.reddit is the only usable version.

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This is very likely. They’re preparing for the fallout

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Funny, me being here can be considered a protest against Reddit for the last year, and it’s still working fine.

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Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.

I haven’t been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I’m lucky that I’m not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don’t exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.

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In other news, grass is green.

I didn’t saw this news. My news only tell me that the rice bag fall over. It happens over and over again. Predictable, like Reddit.

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