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>>stanis+(OP)
It will be interesting to see the eventual outcome of this saga. I have already seen backlash against the backlash in many subs. /r/NBA, which was mentioned in the article, had a poll one day before the blackout and made the decision based on 8000 votes (out of a total 8+ million members). Casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season, and the mod announcements were very heavily downvoted (the blackout happened nonetheless).

Will a chunk of users stay off the site permanently? Maybe. Will Reddit as a business be better off without these users? Also maybe. There's definitely a case to be made that the community would benefit from more casual participation minus power tripping and over moderation from the top 0.01%.

>>paxys+L4
Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.

>>thr_lo+F5
you or any other user could create your own subreddit. it’s not like reddit can’t discuss nba games.

there clearly is a gulf between people who actively wish to make it so and those who consume the byproduct of their effort.

>>ibero+tb
The same way moderators could go create their own version of reddit. Or you an I could just start a new basketball league. Or create a new internet if we are unhappy with the existing one.

This line of reasoning goes nowhere.

>>paxys+mc
Sure it does. If "casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season" (an assertion that is incredibly laughable) and were really that upset, there could've been an r/NBA2 in half a second - far easier than recreating Reddit itself or making their own league. And yet, nobody did that...

>>jjuliu+6d
> And yet, nobody did that...

/r/nbacirclejerk, /r/basketball, /r/cfb, /r/heat and /r/denvernuggets hosted the game threads for last night game.

Honestly really digged the experience on the /r/nbacirclejerk game thread.