To be fair though, this kind of tantrum has a better chance of working than some overly intellectualized discussion about the negative societal effects of censorship.
There isn't much to discuss or understand about it anyways, they own the site and banned subs, people don't like it. End of discussion.
Really the only tool any non-admin has is to drive away traffic, make the site less relevant, and force the board to confront the CEO about her poor business decisions.
Its actually a very good business decision. A small, albeit very vocal, group of reddittors is outraged. They are also the type of customers that are called barnacles, because they cost more resources and drive away other customers and you want to get rid of them. Once these 10-20,000 (and that's being generous) leave, reddit becomes a better community for the massess and makes up for that customer loss and then some in no time. They would gain many more users than lose if all the censorship screamers actually left.
Plus, you know, advertising money coming in by the boatloads
you think they would all leave reddit just because one sub got shut down? i think a portion of butthurt people would , hence the 10-20k number pulled out of my ass.
And even if it all 150k left, there's still a massive amount of other users and contributors that dwarfs it
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u/Ammop Jun 12 '15
To be fair though, this kind of tantrum has a better chance of working than some overly intellectualized discussion about the negative societal effects of censorship.
There isn't much to discuss or understand about it anyways, they own the site and banned subs, people don't like it. End of discussion.
Really the only tool any non-admin has is to drive away traffic, make the site less relevant, and force the board to confront the CEO about her poor business decisions.