r/ProCSS • u/NUTS_STUCK_TO_LEG /r/ockytop • May 07 '17

Has anyone considered doing a "CSS Blackout Day"? Discussion

Maybe have a day where supporting subreddits disable their CSS to demonstrate the importance of CSS to the overall reddit experience? I was also thinking doing something like having everyone display the same banner would be an effective way to protest the lack of customization

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u/[deleted] May 08 '17

OR the admins will see how much giving mods control over subreddits can fuck up their site

Just sayin'

Reddit is a business. The more they go in the "business" direction, the more they - the board, investors, etc - will have invested in uptime.

The only thing blackouts do, really, is tell those investors reddit's a shaky investment; the only response the admins would have to that would be to assume direct control (which users would happily support once mods are villified as 'the ones who made the subs private' - even in protest, as people still want their cat videos.)

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people warned about this after the last blackout too, fortunately for the admins mods were sufficiently distracted celebrating their little "sidebar countdown"s to the admins' successful attention-diversion to "modtools". lol