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Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible

Reddit changes the rules to make sitewide protests much more difficult. Moderators will now have to get admin approval when switching a subreddit from public to private or when adding a NSFW tag.

We reached out to Reddit to inquire about this most recent policy change and the company pointed us to a post on the subreddit r/modnews written by VP of community Laura Nestler. On the topic of recent protests, switching from public to private is the exact way in which subreddits expressed dissatisfaction with last year’s API pricing changes. The company blamed the protests for this outage, telling Engadget that "a significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues.”

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