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Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus the top dozen subs only make up like a few percentage points of the ones that pledged to blackout. So if those are still out then it's still crippling. Like pics, funny, videos, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pics and gifs is just doing sexy John Oliver posts only now. It was decided via community vote.

So now if he wants to change something he is clearly going against the community.

That's when you'll see a huge exodus again