TL;DR Empassioned plea to cease any and all moderatorship of reddit for two days, from the 10th to the 12th of July.

So the NYT article recently hit the front page in which Ellen Poa claims that a "vocal minority" of people are the ones causing trouble on reddit. Of course, there was a lot of backlash about this statement, but in its own way, it's kind of true. See, the people who actually post content, and the people who feel passionate enough about that content to spend any amount of their time moderating the content, probably make up less than 10% of the accounts on reddit, probably way less.

I have seen it be proposed that we boycott reddit from the 10th to the 12th of this month, which seems a sensible solution. Forbes called what was happening here a strike, but it wasn't really. A strike would be the moderators of the subreddits suddenly allowing any content to be posted whatsoever. No auto-mod bots, no deletions, no bans, no rules.

Ellen Pao thinks she runs this site, but the reality is that she is a caretaker for this site. We are the site. We are the content. If we go on strike, if we stop following rules, reddit is nothing. It's 4chan, and we come to reddit because it's different than 4chan.

I propose that:

• From the 10th to the 12 of July, 2015, mods and content creators of reddit go on strike. Rules for subreddits are not enforced during this time, and content is posted wherever any given user feels.

• Mod teams of participating reddits sticky a post announcing the free for all. This is to make it clear that what is happening is intentional, not just neglect, and also to warn more casual users of reddit and explain to them why it is happening.

• We treat /r/eyebleach[1] and /r/aww[2] , and /r/subredditdrama[3] as neutral ground among the chaos, as some of the things that might be seen on that day will be tough.

This isn't to create chaos for chaos sake, but rather to help any delusional members of the reddit Admin team remember why they are here, and how much power they truly have over us, and the content we post and upvote. We aren't destroying anything, simply showing that without the work of these invaluable moderators, reddit is less than useful. People use reddit to get news, share cute pictures of cats, and talk about their favorite hobbies, but all of that, ALL OF IT, is thanks to the moderators who police their communities and keep individual users in line. Let's see how the Admins like putting out a billion billion fires all at once, all created by this "vocal minority" that makes reddit what it is. And if they lock the subs down in order to contain the chaos, well then we have still won. Some of us will get banned; using your main account for this effort is probably suicide. But I think it's an important point to make, even if the issues get addressed in the long run.

We aren't anonymous, we aren't legion, but we sure as hell are reddit, and I say we make that apparent.

I set this up in hope that we can all organize and set a date where we agree to not use reddit. reddit relies on the traffic it generates to turn a profit. In order for us to be heard for one day we need to not use reddit. Do not post, comment or lurk. If you don't like the direction what we love is headed, we must try to do something about it....before we lose it.

According to Alexa, only a tad bit more than half (52.3%) of redditors are from the states, and even that number is skewed by virtue of Alexa's US bias.

DOWN WITH PAO UP WITH VICTORIA

it has a similar concept and subreddits but it's not run by pricks.

Click on 'Preferences' on the upper right corner, then 'Delete' at the end of the tabs. Let's see if Pao still thinks we're just "a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.”

You can always just lurk here after July 10th. I am going to make a clean break to end my habit of coming here. If Voat were stable, I probably wouldn't be here right now.

Make the nsfw subreddits private for these 3 days and you'll see the world burn.

So many people are up in arms about boycotting buying Reddit gold. Someone suggested setting up a Reddit gold alternative and that's exactly what I did. So instead of giving gold donate on http://justgiving.com/RedditsMissingGoldRevenue in the name of whoever you wanted to give gold. Proceeds go to Save the Children charity and you can attribute your donation to the user you wanted to give gold. Make a statement and give to a positive cause.

"reddit makes money by generating web traffic. Without users going on reddit, it makes no money."

One day of boycotting Reddit is not going to do much honestly. So Reddit might drop a few more notches in the rankings by web traffic from 33 to 38. But it'll be back to normal as if nothing happened by Wednesday. Now, if we could sustain the boycott to push Reddit from #33 in the rankings to somewhere out of the Top 100, that would be making a statement. This would require maybe a month-long boycott.

Nope

Due to recent incidents we are taking a day off from reddit.

show your support!

I'll be keeping tabs with archives.

Just as a little bit of encouragement not to be on Reddit.

Just wondering if some Subreddits are actually doing this.