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Comment by QuarterRoy | Hacker News Reader

Users aren’t that furious or they’d go somewhere else.

Reddit users see no irony in complaining about Reddit changes and policy on Reddit.

Reddit leadership won the API fight by threatening to remove mods. Then they brought back /r/place to distract users from all the changes.

Until users start leaving the platform Reddit will continue on its path of forcing everyone to use their app and looking at a near term IPO.

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Bit harsh but I brought it up before. When the blackout started, Reddit users created a place to share blackout news and organize. It was a subreddit.

I have to imagine the CEO laughed when he saw that.

semi-related - I left every group that thought joining the blackout was somehow intelligent

whether or not I agreed with said blackout (which as easily (probably more so) could have been done as a "day without Reddit", or like how some Facebook groups will close for new comments/posts periodically to take a break), such acts on the part of mods demonstrated they hadn't considered anyone but themselves when they did it

Most of them just don't care. I saw a large thread on the WoW forums about how Reddit was going to be force un-privating subreddits and removing moderators. Almost all the comments in there were praising Reddit for that saying that the power tripping mods needed to go. The API changes were part of the discussion, but purely framed as something that affected moderator tools.

I don’t think they brought r/place back to distract users but to gain new ones from communities participating in place.

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