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Not sure they “caved”. A protest is never rigid, both sides constantly adapt to what the other side is doing. In many instances, the protest hasn’t stopped, it has taken a John Olivier sanctioned new form. Or even more subtle forms that will be a lot harder for Reddit to track and fight.

A well-organized protest can last a very long time. And you don’t need a lot of people to do real damage. As a French, I’m very familiar with protests and strikes and whatnot. To me, these mods are adapting extremely well to Reddit’s threats. Reddit will exhaust itself fighting this protest. spez is a dumbass, as this completely avoidable protest will require Reddit to dedicate a lot of resources to quell it. For a dude so focused on profitability, such a waste of resources and money is a hilarious result.

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Napoléon said something of the like “don’t attribute to malice when it’s incompetence instead”.

I’m no PR expert but that would definitely be an improvement compared to where he’s at.

So after saying for weeks, if not months, that the new pricing wasn’t designed to kill third-party apps, he’s now saying the exact opposite? And thus admitting that Reddit lied to its community for the whole?

Please, can someone give to this dude any PR training? Even the bare minimum would be an improvement at this point.