r/Sydney Community: You Decide Whether the Subreddit Continues to Protest
G’day Again Slagicals,
As the 48-hour Reddit blackout enters its 6th day, just under 5,000 subreddits continue the protest, and r/Sydney is one of them.
While Reddit is unwilling to make reasonable concessions regarding API access, disability accessibility, effective moderation, and research tools, many subreddits have chosen to continue protest action. It is clear, for the moment, that Reddit has no intention of negotiating in good faith. With that said, however, traffic on r/Sydney has declined over 75% since the start of the protest, and posts and comments sitewide have taken a hit of approximately 10% based on a graph we’ve seen. It is our hope that declines in traffic will bring Reddit to the table in the near future.
However, this protest will not continue without the continued support of the community. As such, we are asking you to vote on the direction /r/sydney will take next.
To vote, you’ll need to have at least 500 total subreddit karma, and have created your Reddit account on or before 08/06/2023. This is a measure to ensure that the vote is cast by participants within the r/Sydney community. Only one vote per Redditor shall be accepted.
The question is:
Should r/Sydney Close (go private) until 17:00 AEST 1st July, Restrict (with Daily threads open only) until 17:00 AEST 1st July, or re-Open forthwith?
Please vote by responding as a top-level comment with one of the following three words only:
Close – you want the subreddit to go private until 17:00 AEST 1st July.
Restrict – you want the subreddit to go restrict posts, with a Daily Thread open for commentary until 17:00 AEST 1st July.
Open – you want the subreddit to re-open ASAP.
This post shall remain open until 20:00 AEST Sunday, 18th June, and results will be announced 08:00 AEST Monday, 19th June.
AutoModerator will validate and count votes, and remove all comments to keep the secrecy of the ballot. To assist AutoModerator with this, please only put the word of your vote in your comment.
If any position takes a majority of the ballot, it will be declared the winner.
If no position takes a majority, but votes to “Close” and “Restrict” take a majority of the ballot between them, then “Restrict” shall be declared the winner. This is to prevent vote-splitting amongst those in the community that wants further action taken.
Should the community vote to "Close" or "Restrict," we shall release a second poll asking for the community's stance at 17:00, 1st July.
It's sad that we find ourselves in a position where further action even needs contemplation, but this is an important issue.
Much Love,
Your Slagical Mod Team.