So what you're saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.
I have a few loose ends to tie up before walking away from the explosion as outlined in this comment from a similar thread but at this point, nothing short of the entire chain of decisions that started the API debacle being reversed and anyone involved in the mess, spez included, stepping down and being replaced by competent people would even begin to make me reconsider leaving. Of course, I might as well wish for a meteorite made of solid gold to land into my yard.
Besides, this doesn't fix the underlying issue that led us here in the first place, and the Fediverse might just be the answer to that one.
Perhaps a bit too seamless as there is no indication of which instance users are from unless you go and check their profile. I can see this becoming an issue down the line, so I picked up a userscript that fixes the problem (it has other features, but that's the one I mostly use it for).
/r/place is expected to come back on the 23rd of June, which is Reddit's 18th anniversary.
You'll note that this is also conveniently a week before the API changes go into effect, so I'm planning to, as spez would put it, make some more noise by putting a message right on the middle of the canvas highlighting their bad decision. Time will tell if I'm successful in this endeavor. So far, I have dragged a couple of hundred people and some change into this mess of a plan and The Swarm is going to be backing us up as well, in the manner you'd expect from the group behind the appearance of the black void in the previous iterations of /r/place.
Afterward, I'm torching my account.
Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can't keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit's fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn't overrun by spambots of various flavors.
Meanwhile over on kbin, the points really do, in fact, not matter since comment ordering is dictated by the boost count.
Amusingly, among the very first posts to /r/france once it went back up was a call to reinstate the blackout indefinitely.
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