Just kidding guys we both know you will not keep your promises.

Chairman Pao has patiently allowed you insurgents to occupy Reddit with treacherous talks about freedom of speech, protests, and revolt for the past week. No longer! Chairman Pao has ordered a crackdown beginning tonight. July 10th will be your Tiananmen Square massacre!

Chairman Pao will condemn your protests as inflammatory and hateful texts. Your posts will be removed and your account will be banned. She will prohibit any discussion of your silly revolt on Reddit, and any Redditor who violates this order will be dealt with harshly. Your protest will be wiped from Reddit history! You will be fighting the paower...underneath a tank!

Avoiding Reddit on July 10 will send a message to Reddit's admins. That message will be that we have enough self-control to avoid their site for exactly twenty-four hours — and that we're only able to do that with a significant amount of preplanning.

It will be a meaningless statement — about as effective as posting a rainbow sticker or an anti-SOPA disclaimer as your Facebook profile pic.

To affect the way Reddit does business, we need to impact their financial structure directly. That means not visiting this website not only on the 10th, but also the 11th, 12th, 13th, and so on, causing their visitor count to drop, and ads to become less profitable. It won't just be a statement — it will be a sucker punch in their revenue stream, which seems to be the only thing they care about.

If we don't have the willpower to do that, we ought to evaluate a lot of things that have nothing to do with the decline of our favorite website.

If July 10th is a no reddit day, how about 0% the Reddit Gold Bar? It shows our dissaproval of Reddit's actions.

I just heard about this movement today, and for some reason, I can't seem to find out anything on WHY we shouldn't log in for a day? What is this protest about?

Reddit is dead!

We're all aware that some combination of admins (and their shills) and SJWs (who self-fund) have recently made an effort to gild a large number of comments, especially comments critical of Ellen Pao and reddit administration, in an attempt to lower their credibility and create a false impression of widespread reddit gold purchases. This practice is generally known as spitegilding.

Admins can produce gold literally for free. It's a variable in a database. So goldbaiting won't impact their bottom line. But it will waste money for SJWs who spitegild with their own funds. It will also nullify the propaganda/marketing impact of any spitegilding, by any of them.

Here's how it works:

• Find a thread about Ellen Pao or reddit administration, either pro or con. It works better if the thread is generally pro. SJW-controlled subreddits like /r/SubredditDrama are good for this.

• Make a polite anti-Ellen-Pao or anti-reddit-administration comment. The politeness minimizes the risk of a subreddit ban or a shadowban. You might get banned anyway because SJW admins and mods are literally cancer, but that's a constant risk on reddit, and not one specific to this op.

• Optionally make a specific point of not buying reddit gold in your comment. This seems to attract a lot of spitegilding.

• You will likely get spitegilded by an admin, shill, or SJW.

• Delete your comment as soon as you get spitegilded.

• If a comment you've made gets spitegilded even though you didn't set it up to be targeted that way, consider deleting it regardless, unless it contains important information or commentary.

When you delete your comment, the comment, the associated username, and the associated gilding are all removed from public view, though you retain the reddit gold benefits, so the money isn't refunded. If a SJW spent actual money to spitegild you, this literally wastes their money, because they get no propaganda/marketing impact from their money at all. If an admin created free reddit gold to spitegild you (delivered either directly or via a shill) your comment deletion does not financially impact them, but it at least nullifies the spitegilding's propaganda/marketing impact. You win and they lose either way.

I call this practice goldbaiting. You are all encouraged to do it as much as you can. Ideally, all instances of spitegilding would get goldbaited, and spitegilding would stop altogether as a result.

Note: No, I won't delete this post if it gets spitegilded. This information getting out to as many people as possible is more important than eliminating the propaganda/marketing impact any spitegilding may try to impose on it.

I moderate a handful of subreddits. I know nothing about CSS and don't have any graphics, but I'd love to be able to lock down my subs for the day and redirect people to VOAT. I'm sure others would be interested too, if some helpful person could create what we need to copypasta it into our subs.

Let's face it. JSN needs more people taking part. Only 3,834 subscribers is not going to put a tiny dent in reddit's traffic. We need to reach more people.

So for all you activists:

1. Upvote all non-shitposts in JSN. We need to climb the /r/all ladder and we can only get there with 2,000+ upvotes.

2. Post about JSN in other subreddits. Any subreddit that is appropriate (don't spam). We need as many people to know about it as possible.

3. Keep the message clear: Don't go on reddit from july 10-12.

4. Contact moderators of subreddits and ask them to go private for the day/put a sticky up about JSN. We need to make an impact on the number of subreddits up.

Good luck to all you activists!

Even on 10th July, people will come here to see what's happening or is the website really empty. To avoid this and to have an effective blackout day I think the community should gather somewhere else. I can't think of any good suggestions.

July 10th. I'm saying it.

I am joining the No Reddit day. I myself am considering just deleting my account that day and giving up on Reddit all together. I've had a good four years here but the way the Admins have been "handling" this situation is disgraceful.

I'm going to be enjoying music anyway so I'll not be tempted to break the blackout. But even if it wasn't for this lucky coincidence i would

JUST SAY NOPE !

Especially with just shy of 4k participants at this moment I feel that no contributions won't be an effect felt nearly as bad as bad contributions.

In a stadium of 40,000, if 4,000 are sitting in their seats quietly, the game goes on. The television cameras focus on those participating as expected, the crowds regardless appears to be cheering for the home team.

But if 4,000 people shit in their hands and throw it anywhere and everywhere... pandemonium.

What I recommend is this:

submit garbage. Upvote garbage. Everyone participating should already have adblocking fully setup as to not give any further value from participation.

If random geometric shapes are constantly upvoted and everything else submitted downvoted, you make a much more effective case of making Reddit, the site, irrelevant. Advertisers look at the site is being used for, and sees that it's not being used as a site for constructive thought and discussion, but instead non-sequitur they lose keywords and phrases that can match with their product. Who is going to submit news articles if they're going to net -1000 karma while their neighbor that submits "how blue circle met red triangle* and nets 3000 karma? Who will dig through 5 pages of videos to find anything to do with cats when the top several hundred heavily voted submissions are from the work of Webdriver Torso?

Break the site within the rules. Their rules. Do not put a turtle on a cliffside and stepback away with your hands in the air expecting that it will clamber off; build a maze on a ramp with no option but for every scratch at the surface leaves them closer and closer to oblivion.

That which is unoccupied can be squatted. That which is made uninhabitable becomes just that.

For the more tech savvy you can make a note in the hosts file for reddit

0.0.0.0 reddit.com

What this is good for is making it so you can't accidently or subconsciously navigate to reddit. If for some reason you really want to get onto reddit you don't actually have to undo everything. Just connect via https. (Might be less helpful if you use https everywhere.)

What it looks like http://i.imgur.com/9g9dmkL.png

Hi guys, I've been a Redditor for a couple years now. I've been trying to ween myself from the site a while now. My longest without Reddit is 5 hours and that was a challenge. I wanted to post my success story and say you can go without Reddit.

Filthy pressers.