Breaking Down Barriers: Starting today, all Subscribers to r/PoliticalHumor are now members of the Landed Gentry. - r/PoliticalHumor

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That applies to newcomers too. For example, if you want to lock a thread, simply comment "!lock".

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wipes tear That's beautiful.

This one might be the best subreddit retaliation I've seen this week

Blackout

Blocking a community for a protest is irresponsible and undemocratic.

NSFWification

Using a feature that is explicitly baked into the platform is irresponsible and will harm people who chose to click/tap on NSFW content clearly marked as such, and probably voted for to appear in the subreddit children.

Absolute democracy

You, uh, you have to... er, we uhm, uhhhh

this is really testing my resolve not to go back to that site.

Wow.

What a nightmare this whole thing is turning out to be. I mean, imagine being the CEO right now. You want to seem strong, you don't want to back down, but every day the chaos seems to get crazier.

Imagine the pressure right now.

And the funny thing is, he deserves every bit of the shitstorm he brewed. He's traded his shovel for an industrial sized tunnel boring machine to dig Reddit's grave, as well as his own.

Good for them. I hate to see Reddit fail like this but itโ€™s the bed they chose to make.

For some reason, this whole chaos is more true to the Reddit I know than everything has been for the last years.

These malicious compliances are too fun, unfortunately, this kind of thing will increase engagement. Funny though, would have been a great April Fools day idea.

While I never really used that sub I am proud of the mods there.

It's beautiful. Ask and you shall receive. Fuck spez