In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.
Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte
Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren’t your personal army.
The mods forced their choice upon the users of Reddit.
Plus it was a stupid concept since to find an active subreddit person just had to go to /r/all
Taking a look at r/all one day, after many years of only seeing carefully-chosen subs that were actually good, was definitely one of the things that got me to finally quit.
I choose to quit for munch different reasons because moderators are dumb.
I got banned from /r/news simply because the British Broadcasting Corporation choose to change the title of the article…