Yes. They banned the Donald Trump subreddit. That one subreddit produced more outrage than probably everything else in the history of Reddit combined. And they banned it. A company seeking to maximize outrage would not do that.
Just because there's a limit to the outrage tolerated, it doesn't mean that outrage isn't part of the plan.
That's where the goalposts are and that's where they are going to stay: whether or not they seek to maximize outrage.
So ya, that interpretation is the logical one. If your business model depends on something, you would be optimizing for maximizing it over time.
Please do not add any extra words to that, thus shifting the goalposts. Here you have added the word 'profit'. I never said anything about profit.
I argued that they do not.
I don't think it's pedantic at all to say the goalposts are whether or not they maximize outrage.
I totally understand that the word's 'Reddit' and 'Twitter' and 'Trump' are going to trigger people into wanting to talk more broadly about those topics. There are lots of other places they can go and do that. I had a very specific and narrowly defined argument.