Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they’re calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.
See the NFL thread if you don’t mind sending traffic
https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/
I wouldn’t doubt that the majority of users that supported the protest are probably bating their time. They’re periodically lurking to see if there has been an impact, not posting, and/or deciding to quit. So what’s left are users that didn’t support the blackout, and they’re pissed and very vocal, and upvoted by the rest of the community that supports u/spez.
Yep, can attest. I’m only checking in to my subs to find the ‘official’ alternatives, have had to stop myself from picking up fights and to just move on.