Across many subreddits, the announcements to participate in the blackout were highly upvoted (>90%), while announcements against participation were heavily downvoted.
Examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/146xzgk/meta...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/145s613/rgames_and_t...
There were a lot of people protesting the protest in r/modCoord but they started banning them
r/modCoord has negative comments minutes to days old. Criticism is not banned evidently. How did the banned protest the protest? Are the protesting moderators allowed any moderation of their coordination channels in your mind?
No idea it is their channel
The issue is, they should not be allowed to coordinate site-wide. The whole point of subreddits is to have separate competing communities, not to coordinate.
Who said this? And what made their wishes law?
Haven't they? Isn't making the API economically unfeasible to use limiting access?
My personal plan is to delete all my posts and my account once Apollo goes down. I made most of that content using Apollo, so it seems fitting.
I’m not having a fun time with this blackout, but Reddit will be effectively blacked out for me the moment old.reddit goes away. I might as well try changing my diet now, if I’m otherwise going to be forced to change it anyway once doing nothing different leads to diabetes in the near future.
I don’t own my contributions any more than the mods do. My contributions exist only in the context of moderated mass discussion, and in the context of mass audience participation. All broad changes to the context of this collaboration are abusive… and I’m throwing my lot in with the abuses of the mods doing blackout right now.
Should librarians be allowed to close public libraries and make them an exclusive club because they work there and have been organizing the shelves?