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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] ItsaB3AR@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing that had me back on Reddit was searching for something on DDG and getting 99% Reddit results. I see why they are un-deleting people's comments and posts when they close their accounts. Hopefully other forums take those spots.

[–] rskn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That explains why I kept trying to purge my history and having some posts keep popping back up.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Get yourself banned. I don't think they restore content of banned accounts.