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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by arprocter on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:45PM (#9853812)
From what I saw the shutdowns began on Friday evening and subs started coming back on the Saturday morning (EST, and it was a holiday weekend in the US).

As it was a spur of the moment thing, subreddit mods couldn't have polled users for more than an hour or two or the momentum would've been lost

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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by FireBeyond on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:40PM (#9854112)
Yeah, that comes across as a hand-waving dismissal. 203 out of 230 voters in a one hour window in a community of 31,000 is -not- indicative of consensus, no matter how you slice or dice it.
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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by arprocter on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:57PM (#9854226)
Aggrieved users are welcome to take it up with the mods of /r/cooking, or make their own spinoff sub - that's the beauty of reddit.
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Re:Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum by arprocter on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @08:28PM (#9855510)
Can't edit my original post, so here will have to do.

Do you honestly think that every sub which went dark for a few hours (when a large percentage of their users were probably asleep) should've held a week long 'should we go private or not?' poll?

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