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pingbear  ·  3437 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die

I disagree. In this instance the ones who are angry enough to leave aren't those disaffected by the hivemind. This is happening as a result of banning and shadowbanning a lot of users. There's a lot of wack-a-mole. They've tried going hydra on subreddit creation and been shut down as soon as their posts appear on /r/al/new, they've tried invading other sites, they'll soon - in my view - turn on the circlejerk/SRD crowd having a good laugh at their expense. But ultimately they'll leave.

This isn't a case of reasonable heads drifting away because of shitty behaviour, this is people leaving as a result of being banned for shitty behaviour.

Normally people leave in search of better content. In this instance people are leaving looking for a platform. The difference is obvious.





kleinbl00  ·  3437 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are mistaken. The angry ones are mostly staying. Have you modmail to check? A default sub to maintain? And when I check /r/all, what I see is a bunch of scrambling to quell the rebellion.

There's no good way to have this discussion without it turning into a dick measuring contest so I'll simply say this: I don't see what you see and you don't see what I see.

Gilgamesh  ·  3437 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It'll take a rather more significant change than this, I think, to actually give a significant number of those people the impetus they need to stop threatening departure for the sake of histrionics, and actually commit to it.

pingbear  ·  3437 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There were 150,000 users on /r/fatpeoplehate. Of course there will be a large enough group to sustain a lot of anger while the rest filter off.