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I think they are too smart to override it. See the Streisand effect. If the old subreddits go permanently dark, new subreddits with mods who don't care about the protest will fill the void.



The old subreddits are too valuable both for people's existing curated preferences as well as for useful information showing up in search results.

There's no universe in which Reddit allows subreddits to go permanently dark. Not gonna happen.


>I think they are too smart to override it.

All recent evidence to the contrary




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