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Comment by Scaevolus | Hacker News Reader

Historically, reddit is most likely to move against subreddits when they cause embarrassing news articles.

Make no mistake, Reddit is absolutely loving this. WSB has 3 million new subscribers in the past 2 weeks. The only thing the executives at reddit care about is revenue and hence impressions, which is exactly what they're getting.

Also, do you see just HOW MANY awards are being applied to WSB posts? It's consistently off the charts lol. I'm willing to bet it's the most awarded subreddit by a wide margin.

>The only thing the executives at reddit care about is revenue and hence impressions

Oh please. If that was true, they wouldn't have banned TheDonald, especially so close to the election. That sub drove a huge amount of traffic.

If we are talking money incentives, a community that are discussing stock investments seems more interesting for advertisement than politics. If a person are investing in stock options, it almost guarantied that they have spare money.

Everything surrounding TD subreddit was getting out of hand so they had to act to look like the good guys who care about stuff.

They know they have more to lose by pissing off the community.

The Donald subreddit was big, but the writing was on the wall that Trump was about to lose, and /r/politics + /r/SandersforPresident + /r/AOC have always been bigger and more popular. It was a very easy decision for reddit.

The user count on r/thedonald was frozen as to not influence popularity, you are likely wrong about their relative size.

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