Don't think we haven't noticed that you're hiding online stats when KIA saidit isn't.
I read the rules, yesterday, and y'all changed them. There was no blacklist section.
AoV was saying you guys are revisionists and censors, you're proving him right already and it's only two days in. Not a good look to start with.
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You've got it backwards. This is a return to form. Reddit was an aberration, not the norm.
If you go back to the 90's and early PHP, most communities were on forums. Hosted chat on yahoo was scorned as being too moderated. Then Digg became a thing, but while Digg hosted a lot of communities it was still very tech-centric. Then Digg decided to commit seppoku with the rollout of version 4, at which point everyone migrated to Reddit.
Reddit was what took the Digg model and really won over people from php based forums. It was inevitable that culture clash would occur and cause schism. Because Reddit would inevitably fall to the same forces that made Yahoo chat unappealing. The communities want freedoms that are at odds with the company's desire to have a moderated experience.
Aye. Bury the hatchet with AoV. Unite the clans.
But why?
Do you know what the American Revolution was?
The revolution was eight years of: the British set out to do a thing, and he Continentals make it cost a lot more than it should have... repeat.