Reddit's moderators are holding people hostage. This just shows how the small group of powerhungry mods acts. I hope reddit finds a solution that serves its users who provide the content.
Reddit has much bigger problems to solve. First and foremost, that users have no recourse from moderation abuses, and this is killing the community more than the API changes.
None of the subs i know did
Looking at the comments in this thread it doesn't feel like a democratic decision: https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/rstarwars...
Not participating in subreddits with crappy moderators seems like pretty good recourse?
Social media, especially a platform like reddit, has a special relationship with users. They aren't customers. You need the people who post, comment, and moderate or the platform dies.