Over the past 48 hours, r/gaming has participated in the Reddit-wide blackout in protest of the API pricing changes Reddit is planning to roll out. Over those 48 hours, the behaviour of the Reddit admins has been disappointing. Admin has been stepping in and allegedly removing moderators and forcing closed subreddits open, to keep their revenue coming in, and the Reddit CEO has dismissed the Redditor’s concerns, saying it will all blow over.
The mod team here has considered keeping the subreddit private to continue the protest, but we said we would close down for 48 hours and we did, therefore we need to go public to hear your comments and discussion points. We as moderators are internally discussing further actions amongst ourselves, however we will be influenced if there is a strong message coming from the sub.
2 Days is nothing, a week is something, a month is better. 2 Days is nothing but a blip or a little bit of noise, even the CEO’s statement sent to employees made it out to be nothing. Honestly, the blackout should have been a month long thing and should have been announced as a month long. And even then, a month might not be long enough.
My biggest qualm so far with the blackout is how useless Google has become when searching for information on something, it’s become a glorified Reddit search engine, which in itself is terrifying that so much technical information is confined to a singular place.