All Reddit had to do was STFU and wait for a month or two. Lack of any reaction or results is probably the most demotivating thing in all human experience. Go forward with the plan, say nothing, give no interviews, send no messages, do nothing to the mods or the subreddits, and within just a couple weeks, the users would get bored and force the place to return to normal. Either through pressuring their mods or just starting new subreddits with the same theme as the closed ones. The effect on the front page and the common lurker would be minimal and transient.

Instead, Spez has to go around slinging shit from his diaper at literally every opportunity, taking more and more extreme actions, hiding behind a fake mod name, saying super salty things to everyone, etc. He's basically the only person continuing to add fuel to this dumpster fire. It's literally just him. If he got sick or hit by a bus or something and had to shut up for even just a week while he was recovering, Reddit would lose interest in the whole thing, because without a visible enemy to fight, the users would turn their frustrations on each other. But he's clearly suffering from some deep psychic wound that keeps him from being able to shut his pie hole.

Reddit admins will say or do anything they think will push the IPO forward.

They have zero respect or care for the people on the site. To them, Reddit users are cattle to be sold and nothing more.

Forums existed long before Reddit became ubiquitous. They have no unique selling point and I think they are about to find that out.

The centralisation of web 2.0 has gone to the point that the benefits are far, far outweighed by the downsides.

The funny thing is that Reddit said they wanted the moderators to respect the wishes of their community. Mods should be able to be voted out. So the mods held votes about making it NSFW and it won. Now Reddit wants to say, "hey you can't do that".

The only thing acceptable to Reddit is that users produce content and drive traffic for free, while mods do all the heavy lifting administration for free, while leadership prepares to pump and dump.

For being the "front page of the internet," they sure don't seem to understand how it works.

sure, its "not acceptable" that the majority of your users are democratically voting to take these subs to NSFW.

This is the last gasp of the irrelevant. Just like applebees was blaming 'the kids these days' and their avocado toast as to why they won't pay $17 for a microwaved cheeseburger... That generation was out of touch with the modern consumer, and instead of ADAPTING (like capitalism says it does), they blamed what should be "their customers" on their business model failing.

Well, reddit is being just as myopic.

To them its "not acceptable" that the majority of its users have changed their minds and are actively trying to ruin the site. They just can't accept that idea, so the behavior is "not acceptable". Get a clue guys. Just because we keep loading your website doesn't mean we're going to keep being your free content and moderation generators.

Of course not, it’s hurting their revenue from usually SFW subs.

All of a sudden it's not ok. Maybe reddit shouldn't have fucked around and found out, starting with spud head Spez

It should have been enough to just say "We allow profanity which is why the sub is marked NSFW" and would've given them much better legs to stand on with Reddit.

This alternative is arguably less bad than getting some surprise porn in your feed and the reddit ToS still says that profanity is considered NSFW

Reddit is upset with how Reddit is designed. Cool cool.

I'm sure reddit considers pretty much any kind of protest as "not acceptable"

Watching reddit crash and burn reminds me too much of watching Twitter crash and burn.

Of course it isn't acceptable. Going NSFW would hit them where it hurts most, their wallets.

I override your decision and I make it acceptable.

Spez truly is like Darth Vader. "Pray I don't alter the terms any further."

Reddit demands not to face any consequences for its actions. This is the news at ten.

What if it's not in protest? What if it's a legitimate decision of the community to just go NSFW?

Their app being inaccessible for the blind was 'not acceptable'. They can go shove it.

'Not acceptable' to whom? XD

TIL NSFW subreddits aren’t eligible for advertising

Lol Reddit

I don't think they know what protest means.

Also, Streisand effect. If you keep telling them to stop, its just gonna get worse, boo boo.

I love it. "Get over us screwing you and with normal discourse, or else" will definitely go over well 🤣

I understood that the NSFW content is because the mods stopped moderating in response to being forced open. This being the case porn is a consequence of Reddits decision, not the mods and Reddit should take the blame for any user who is upset by this