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I believe it was the opposite, people got outraged because they got the exact meaning of the joke. People were expressing loud and clear their grievances and o

I believe it was the opposite, people got outraged because they got the exact meaning of the joke. People were expressing loud and clear their grievances and one admin response was in the lines of "we know about it, let's do nothing and watch the drama unfold, it will die down".

dguaraglia 11y ago
And, to be fair, it did die down. Even though there's still some aftershocks to the initial revolution, reddit seems to be mostly back to normal now.
- peeters 11y ago
  Except, you know, Reddit moderators having editorials run in the New York Times.
  - debacle 11y ago
    And reddit alternatives growing like crazy.
  - dguaraglia 11y ago
    That's a fair point, but if you read the article, it reads like a post-mortem: "this is what happened, this is why it sucked, life goes on, let's try to not do this again." Maybe competing websites (Voat in particular) got a bump because of what happened, but at the end of the day redditors aren't an activist crowd (or rather, they are a slacktivist crowd.) I doubt this will have any big consequences.