After participating in a 48-hour blackout protest against Reddit’s decision to charge third-party developers for API access, moderators of the World of Warcraft subreddit have announced that the subreddit will be indefinitely returning to private mode in continued protest.
It’s more just them wanting what’s convienent for them. They use Reddit a lot and having that disrupted annoys them so they’ll attack what they see as the cause for that, mods privating subreddits. When they should really be complaining that reddit hasn’t found a compromise yet to end the blackouts. While yes the mods could end the blackouts at any time and let these users use the subreddits again reddit could also at any time back down and stop the problem as well.