Lurkers can participate with upvotes and downvotes. You don't even have to join a subreddit to participate in this way. Lurkers (who did click join, but never

Lurkers can participate with upvotes and downvotes. You don't even have to join a subreddit to participate in this way. Lurkers (who did click join, but never posted) are included in the subreddit user-counts advertised on the protest subreddit. If they count as users there, they count as users here.