BotDefense is leaving Reddit

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Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.com

Title says it all. If you think Reddit's been trending down lately, just wait.

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I think they do understand this, to a point. That's why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.

Except they have outright removed a bunch. All but two of the r/TIHI mods were purged, as an example.

Their reopening efforts aren't looking so hot...

r/tihi as of [Sat Jul 8 19:30:18 ~EDT 2023~] looks like its back to pre protest affairs

It looks like it's back, but are they really? One of the posts from the last 12 hours is "Thanks, I hate the new Sonic" with a still from the movie before they reworked it. I smell a repost bot in action to make it look like there's more traffic...

He was a Co creator.

I think you accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I assume you meant to respond to the comment below asking whether spez was with Reddit since the beginning.