> The practice of removing higher-voted posts in order to keep their AMAs at the top should never have been allowed, and I'm glad that it now isn't.

The right response here isn't to punish subreddits that did that. It's to understand why they did that and provide them with an alternative solution. I'm sure the askscience moderators didn't like removing highly-rated posts. But they needed some way to promote AMAs and Reddit didn't give them the tools they needed to do it.

This is ultimately a massive failure on Reddit's part.