If the people voted for it, how are the mods holding them hostage? Both the mods and the people want it.
voted for 2 days, right?
Initially yes, but multiple communities made new polls for the continued blackout.
How? They were offline
None of the subs i know did
They went public and then private.
Example?
Looking at the comments in this thread it doesn't feel like a democratic decision: https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/rstarwars...
You hand-waved the response that users voted for this, and then simply repeated the (seemingly wrong) stance that mods are forcing this in anyone.
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.