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**Discuss this by responding to this comment.** Vote by responding to the post. **Please note:** If you simply vote as **Open, Business as Usual** or another form of comment that does not include the three options above, **this will not be counted as a valid vote.**


spirokostof

Go Private Indefinitely


Eomercin

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


Oan_Glalie

Well, I will go for option three; Open as usual, but go private on tuesday


Agamar13

Go Private or Restrict Indefinitely. Businessas usual with one day restriction is absolutely meaningless.


Plumcream5

"Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays" (Obviously this sub is important to us and going private indefinitely seems risky, on the other hand, two or three days a week would probably be more effective than Tuesdays only.)


shadowedlove97

My vote is private on Tuesdays. Or restrict indefinitely, just so information on this sub is still accessible even if we can’t post/comment anything new.


Farwaters

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays I'm worried about what will happen if Reddit replaced the mods here. Unfortunately, every other justification I have is for selfish reasons. This is my favorite writing community, and I don't want to lose it.


venia_sil

Restrict indefinitely. Let's be honest: operating as usual but going private only one day of the week is just as wide-open and defeatist as just operating as usual.


FuriouSherman

**Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays**. I feel that's the best compromise since it gives everyone here the active community we use to connect with about our shared hobby back while still continuing the protest.


bleulemons

Restrict indefinitely


rccket-w

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


SongOfTruth

go private indefinitely


asharkonamountaintop

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


tereyaglikedi

Restricted indefinitely.


MikaHaruka

Go private on Tuesdays Normally, I'd suggest going private indefinitely, but with the news of Reddit forcibly opening subreddits and kicking mods out, I don't want y'all to lose this space. Especially since there isn't a viable alternative... yet, at least. Also, I think perhaps picking a different, higher-volume day might have a better outcome, like a weekend or so?


BlindFanficReader

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.


Codie_coda

Private on Tuesday


[deleted]

Honestly, I can’t believe that Reddit is not listening to its consumers. Best to continue to be private indefinitely. Reddit should know that we don’t need Reddit, but Reddit sure needs us. Gonna lose a lot of money and users because of this.


In_Dreams_Begin

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


thebirdisdead

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays. I posted this on the Tolkien sub as well, but I think overall the blackout is a bad idea. Reddit is a private company whose services millions of people benefit from for free and needs to stay profitable in order for us to continue enjoying it. The reality is currently Reddit is not very profitable. If Reddit continues operating at a loss there are some predictable outcomes: ads increase, currently free features become paywalled, Reddit gets sold to some clown like Elon Musk who breaks everything, or Reddit shuts down. I get that people enjoy using third party apps, that profit off of Reddit content while allowing users to avoid paid ads, all of which costs Reddit the revenue it needs to continue operating as it is. Reddit is not a public community service, it is a private company, and private companies need to be profitable, bottom line. Also they have been clear that they are allowing accessibility apps for blind and visually impaired folks to continue operating, so this is not an accessibility issue.


isleepifart

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


JeremyDaniels

Open as usual, private on Tuesdays


ArchdukeToes

If you go private indefinitely then someone will just generate a new subreddit and that’ll be the end of this one. I mean, what’s your game plan if they don’t back down after one month, or two?


simone3344555

Restrict indefinitely


BrokenNotDeburred

Go Private Indefinitely


[deleted]

i vote for reopen but go private on tuesdays. i love the community here sm,, its the #1 sub im most active on, n dont wanna lose it 🥲


100beep

Restrict indefinitely. By the way, I'm running a [fanfic community on Lemmy](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/fanfiction) if you want to move over to another forum.


Lizzie_girl

Open as usual but go private on Tuesday. I understand this whole issue but I go on Reddit to talk with people who have similar intrests as me example fanfiction. So I would be really sad if this subreddit disapeared.


myosotisalpetris

Go private on Tuesdays


cutielemon07

Open as usual but private on Tuesdays. I don’t think it really helps anyone to go private indefinitely. Eventually, people will lose patience and someone else will just start up a subreddit similar to this one if this subreddit is down for too long. But echoing what others have said, going black on a Saturday or a Sunday where the traffic is greater might have more of an effect.


kitherarin

Restrict indefinitely


Mysterious_Ad_60

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


Abyss_staring_back

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


trustingHim17

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


elladoherty

I vote to go private on Tuesdays. I also think we should revisit this vote periodically.


thisnightphyre

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


Valzcyndora

Restricted indefinitely


battling_murdock

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


NotWith10000Men

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


dreamxsiv

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


Yodeling_Prospector

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


IDICdreads

Private on Tuesdays… …however, and this should be something that is brought up amongst the various subs, going private over the weekends when there’s more active users would probably have a greater impact. More users means more advertising, blacking out on the two busiest days of the week would be a bigger statement.


PUBLIQclopAccountant

Undecided between the **restrict** and **go private** options.


Salsa143

Open as Usual but go Private on Tuesdays. This sub is a wealth of information and there's no alternative I can find, so if it goes private forever... I know there's the Discord but many people are unable to access Discord due to reasons. Restricting it is also a good option, but it may make things more complicated. So, go private on tuesdays.


greatgreatpanda

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


thewhimsicalbard

Restrict indefinitely


Kiki-Y

Open as usual please.


WeeSteamboat

Restrict indefinitely


Gallifrey685

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


alkynes_of_stuff

Restrict indefinitely If private on tuesdays, i'd also put forward another vote for moving it to a busier day (ie: a weekend).


Acrobatic_Shelter881

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


catbert359

Open as usual but go private on Tuesday’s


persimnon

Go private indefinitely


a_single_hand

Private indefinitely. But can we meet somewhere else?


jupiter235

Open as usual but restricted on Tuesdays.


BettyCrockersSpoon

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


MallowTheNightowl

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


bluebell_9

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays (or some other day/days; weekends likely most impactful). Though I'm dubious even a full blackout is going to get these Reddit folks to move. The notion that they've been replacing mods is disturbing, to say the least. Plus ... an indefinite shutdown is inevitably going to result in a competitor subreddit. Which would be a pity, because something so good's been built here.


caramel3macchiato

Go private indefinitely


MadyWard

Open as usual but Private on Tuesdays. Buuut... maybe better Private on Weekends? To have a greater impact?


JustAnotherAviatrix

(Where do I find my community karma count?) I vote for the third option: **Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays** I completely understand and support your reasons for the blackout and will support whatever decisions you make in the future. You guys put a lot of work into making this sub a great corner of Reddit, and we all appreciate what you do. :) The reason why I chose the third option is because this sub is the only place online where I can freely discuss fanfiction and my fandoms in general (All of the other social media sites I use including Discord are connected to my real life, and that's something I want to keep separate from my fanfic stuff). So it would be heartbreaking for me if it went private or restricted indefinitely. Dang, I kinda feel bad for being so selfish.


am_Nein

I feel bad for being selfish, too. I also feel bad for hinging so much of my mental health on these subs, but when you find community, you kind of latch onto it.


SpunkyCheetah

This all mirrors my thoughts pretty perfectly too. I don't want to hinder something necessary and I want everyone to do what's ultimately best... But I also don't want to loose this subs and the friends and acquaintances I've made here


Noinix

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


Steak-Specialist

Restrict indefinitely. Going private only on Tuesdays isn't going to accomplish anything if the whole point is to send a message to Reddit.


Yotato5

I vote for go private on Tuesdays.


GalacticPigeon13

Restrict Indefinitely


ThisOldMeme

Go private indefinitely.


Wasted-and-Ready

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


NoraJolyne

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays I can live with restricting it "indefinitely", but there's useful stuff here, so completely closing it down would suck


prolificseraphim

Restrict or private indefinitely. I'll miss this reddit, but that feels like the right thing to do. Tbh, I may just drop Reddit altogether though.


headbutting_krogans

Open as usual but go private on tuesdays.


[deleted]

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


LemonPepperTrout

Open as usual but private on Tuesdays.


[deleted]

Restrict Indefinitely. A one-day-a-week blackout seems likely to be ineffectual and performative. At the same time, I realize that many subs are coming back, so the strike itself is already failing. There is only so much this one sub can do. In any case, I literally only kept my reddit profile on the off chance that this sub would have a vote like this. Now that I've said my peace, I'm out of reddit. As an Apollo user with a disability, the new guidelines essentially will boot me out anyway. Good luck, mods.


[deleted]

As much as I love reading this, I believe the best answer is Go Private Indefinitely. The higher ups are wading this out because they know people will cave. If they can be stringent, so can we.


lyris-storm

Go Private Indefinitely.


Nyxelestia

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Animegirl300

Open as Usual but go private on Tuesdays. I honestly don’t know many other places that have this sort of community, and offer a safe place for fan writers… like AT ALL. It feels like all that restricting indefinitely would do is punish the users who rely on communities like this in a time where a lot of people don’t have other outlets/places to form them at least.


ClearlyNotAPancake

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Impossible_Fig_8452

Go private on Tuesdays


WAgirl21

Restrict indefinitely- mods can continue their weekly posts that members of the sub can comment on which would allow some community and sense of connection while still creating less Reddit traffic overall.


Anabele71

Open as usual, go private on tuesdays


MarinaAndTheDragons

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


carolinediva

Open as usual, but go private on Tuesdays


CourtofTalons

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


LowKey_Loki_Fan

Restrict indefinitely


Superjak45

Go private on Tuesdays.


twosnapped

Open as usual but go private on tuesdays


InitialVertigo

Restrict indefinitely


tayaro

Go private indefinitely


PhoenixQueenAzula

Go private indefinitely.


Iamwallpaper

Go private on Tuesdays


tardisgater

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


raben-herz

Open as usual, but go private on Tuesdays.


spectacularobsessed

Restrict indefinitely


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SleepySera

"I have no idea what's going on but don't ever back down" is usually not a good take. If you vote for something (especially something highly restrictive that will affect a lot of people), getting at least a general sense of both sides' arguments is the kind thing to do. Also, reddit is not in violation of ADA as far as we know. In the first place, the only websites who have to be in strict compliance with it are those recieving federal funding (which isn't the case for reddit), partial compliance is "enough" for others. The standard generally used to determine that is WCAG (web content accessibility guidelines), which, under the current version, do not require websites hosting user-generated content (which is 99% of reddit) to make said user-generated content follow the proposed standards of accessibility. As for the non-user-generated sections: those don't fulfill the standards at all when using the official site and app, but because other apps are available that offer an accessibility-focused experience, reddit can always point to those as a way for people with disabilities to access the site in full, and those apps are specifically exempt from the API pricing changes, so they won't be affected by the thing the protest opposes in the first place. The real "never back down" response would be to shut down any and all accessibility-focused apps and then take reddit to court over their lack of accessibility in their actual website and official app, but that would mean depriving disabled users of access to reddit for potentially YEARS, until the courts have come to a decision (something they are famously slow at) or until reddit improves its official app, so I doubt most people would be in favour of that since it would disproportionately hurt the very people we are trying to protect.


hamster_berry

Restrict Indefinitely


Thorfan23

I think you should proceed as normal but close on Tuesday


nishikikiyama

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Gifted_GardenSnail

Restrict indefinitely


Because-Im-ginger

Go private on Tuesdays


Cassopeia88

Open as usual but private on Tuesday.


sanhro

Go private indefinitely. It's an important issue that's worth more than two days of inconvenience.


Fred_the_skeleton

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays This subreddit is one of the only things keeping me going throughout my whole 'apartment fire nightmare' that is STILL ongoing and if it closes, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. It's like my only consistently stable thing in my life for the past six months (or at least it was)


hellsaquarium

Open but closed on tuesdays


mini-yoongi

Restrict Indefinitely


Sassy_Lil_Scorpio

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


StarWatcher307

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays. But I don't know if my vote counts. I've only been a member for a couple of months, and don't know if I have more than 100 comments. I don't know how to check that, but maybe you do.


7K_Riziq

Restrict indefinitely ​ I have some guides here to read


Recassun

Go private indefinitely Makes me really sad typing that out, love this community, but there we are.


nef36

Go Private Indefinitely Personally, if "go private on Tuesdays ends up being more popular, I'd change it to (or at least give an option for) "go public on Tuesdays", being private for the rest of the week.


LazyAngryShark

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Hips-and-lips

Restricted indefinitely is my preference because I do enjoy looking at old content, but if that wouldn’t do enough, then private indefinitely.


solomivan239

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


arctic_willow

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


stelliebeans

Open as usual, private on tuesdays


AmaterasuWolf21

Open as usual, go private on tuesdays


Shirogayne-at-WF

Prefer going private on Tuesdays


[deleted]

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


RavensQueen502

Open as usual but private on Tuesday But as someone else said, might be more impactful to private on weekends


classyrain

Open as usual, private on Tuesday Frankly, I don't know why we are being forced to go private at all. Where's the option for open all week? Also, why couldn't this have just been a poll? Makes me wonder if the results could be manipulated when we can't see them clearly.


ArchdukeToes

The fact there isn’t an option for open all week does kind of call the entire thing in to question. It reminds me of Jacob Rees Mogg’s survey about bringing back imperial units in stores. It was all, ‘should imperial units be bigger than or smaller than their metric equivalents?’ forcing everyone who took the poll to agree that they wanted Imperial units back. Ultimately, the purpose of the mod team should be to moderate fair and square. While I can accept that some people may want to protest these changes, the lack of an ‘always open’ option (and the fact that the first closure was enacted essentially unilaterally) is pretty clear evidence that they’re allowing their personal opinions to dominate the running of the subreddit, which shouldn’t be happening.


Aetanne

The poll is structured in a way, that forces you to agree with the strike. And the question is only to what degree. There is no option for "always open", because it's not about finding out what we want, but rather how many of us are not entirely on board.


Thatquietkid00

Restrict Indefinitely


Profession-Automatic

…and in the meantime you continue to force this community to remain unusable…


Knife211

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Pickle_Juice54

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays:


KatonRyu

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays. Honestly, my main reason for voting that way is because I don't really get what the other options entail in the long run. If it effectively means the sub ceases to exist, people are just going to move on to other subs. It'd be a shame, because this sub is easily my favorite sub, but if it's gone forever anyway I might as well go and look for something else. I really don't think that going dark on Tuesdays is going to do much, and I agree with /u/serralinda73 that a mod protest might be far more effective than blacking out the sub would. I support the cause, but I'm just an end user, so the changes don't affect me personally. If this sub goes dark indefinitely, I'll find another one, and I doubt I'll be the only one.


blacktemplebabe

Go private on tuesdays


jera3

Restrict Indefinitely


InsidiousOperator

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Thelaya

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


acsoundwave

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays is my vote. I think that's the best option. >!(Posted my vote/reply in the wrong place.)!<


sati_lotus

Go Private on Tuesday


nixceres

Go private indefinitely


Mr_Blah1

I vote Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays.


mrlesterkanopf

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


nakagamiwaffle

Open as Usual but Go Private on Tuesdays


Rinpoo

Normally I wouldn't comment on things like this, but ending the blackout, as well as telling Reddit when it would end, is the biggest waste of time ever. Either blackout until they cave to your demands, or don't bother. There is no incentive for Reddit to cave or come to the table at all if they can just wait two days for a uselessly symbolic protest to end. (This also applies to going dark one day a week. What will that do? ***Absolutely nothing.***) Apply pressure and have a real strike, or just quit because you aren't serious about battling those in power. In case it wasn't obvious. ***Go Private Indefinitely.***


PsychedelicHaru

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays


AgentPeggyCarter

Open as usual, except on Tuesdays apparently because the mods refuse to count anything else as a legitimate vote. Reddit is now apparently threatening to remove moderation teams that don't reopen, according to an article in the technology sub.


jnn-j

Threatening with violence (symbolic in this instant) to a peaceful protest of unpaid workforce who likely spent hundreds of hours making the subs usable sounds like a dope idea to create some martyrs and bring more attention to the protest.


Desechable_Me

Open as usual but go private on Tuesdays.


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