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By the timeReddit allegedly started threatening to remove moderators in response to the blackout, its officials told the r/Minecraft mod team that the poll results were not a sufficient reason to close the subreddit. While Reddit did not dispute the outcome of the vote, its administrators took issue with the fact that fewer than 20,000 users participated in the poll. Forever closing a public forum because a small portion of its user base demands so for reasons that are “totally unrelated” to its topic “doesn’t make sense,” a Reddit admin wrote to the r/Minecraft mod team, according to a screenshot of their communication shared by user mynameisperl.
With r/Minecraft hence being forced to reopen, its mods decided to significantly relax its posting submissions. As a result, the front page of the subreddit started being populated with images of John Oliver, including photographs andMinecraft-inspired fan art of the comedian.
Reddit is still adamant to implement its new API policy on July 1, which will require third-party apps like unofficial clients and mod tools to start paying for server requests. For clarity, the protesters are merely demanding fair and reasonable pricing in line with other public APIs. However, the $0.24 per 1,000 requests that Reddit intends to charge has already prompted popular third-party clients like Apollo and Reddit is Fun to announce they’ll be shutting down come next month because such pricing would skyrocket their monthly costs into millions of dollars. TheCEO of Reddit told employees the blackout will passas late as last week, and while the company technically forced that prediction into coming true, the influx of John Oliver imagery demonstrates how the protests are far from over.
