We previously announced that we would go down for the 48 hours during the blackout period.

We've been back up a while and things have happened since we made that original post. Reddit CEO has made the news numerous times with potentially inflammatory comments, moderators have been removed from protesting subreddits, Apollo app creator has followed-up his exposé of Reddit up with more instances.

The time has come to poll the user base on how we proceed with this issue.

This will be simple, just two options:

PROTEST: We continue in some (likely significant) form, possibly either private, restricted, private once or twice a week, we impose our own John Oliver-esque policy, etc. We welcome thoughts, ideas, etc. in the comments. In this scenario, the poll will remain open, the votes can be changed, we will recheck the results on a regular basis and reopen if things swing. We may poll further based on the options available.

OPEN: We continue operating with an open subreddit and it will be business as usual. If events happen, we (or the userbase) may request a revote.

To vote, simply click the option above or below and send the PM:

PROTEST

OPEN

You will get a confirmation DM. Please be patient, Reddit has very sensitive limits on messages (even replies) so the bot waits a long period between DMs.

To change vote, just send the new one.

To view your current vote, click here and send.

Please note: This poll is open to everyone (excluding shadowbanned users) however priority will be given to our active userbase due to the brigading currently happening around this heated topic.

Results, summary of the buckets considered, and an anonymised detailed data set will be provided (with the message ID of the vote). To avoid peer pressure and abuse that we've also observed, we wish to keep usernames private.

If you have any issues or queries, please don't hesitate to reach out to us or me, publicly or privately, as appropriate.

Manual voting

If your app is bad, you can do so manually by sending a PM to /u/PCJs_Slave_Robot with "shutdown gallifrey" as subject and "open", "protest" or "view" as the body.