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Update: Reddit employees are denying that Reddit sent any such notice. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ojccls/reddit_o...

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I suspected it was too evil for Reddit. Killing off secret santa was lame, but threatening to sue your users is a different level. Plus, there would be no reason to threaten a lawsuit when they could just ban the account.

So, gaming this out, I don't think the person that ran SaveVideo was evil either. Assuming good faith, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is that someone fabricated a cease and desist notice.

Either that, or Reddit lost track of one of their lawyers on payroll, who got a bit too bored. (As strange as it sounds, this actually happens; I once received a C&D from Magic Leap merely for mirroring their Magic Leap developer manual to my personal site. No idea how they even found the link.)

Wow, I just saw the news about Secret Santa... how sad. It was truly one of the more unique community aspects...

https://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsett...

> Assuming good faith, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is that someone fabricated a cease and desist notice.

Called it. :) It was indeed a fake takedown: https://www.reddit.com/user/SaveVideo/comments/ojohbq/update...

Wow they killed SecretSanta??! Never participated, but thats a bad business decision for sure... Unless they come out with their own concept of course...

As a former digg refugee, I'm sorry to see the same dysfunction strike reddit.

Afaik they repossesed it from the original creator, then decided they didn't want it after all, and killed it.

Things seemed to start rolling downhill after they fired the AmA hostess (I don't remember her name); it seemed like a lot of the decisions since then have been more "corporate" and less "community". (As in, if it doesn't promise high returns in an easily measurable metric and time frame, it gets the axe).

I hope we hear more from the operator of SaveVideo. Their post was very vague so it's hard to tell what exactly happened at this point.

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