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I heard lots of very similar comments about protests in France, always from people who didn't even join the protests in the first place, too.
Amusingly, among the very first posts to /r/france once it went back up was a call to reinstate the blackout indefinitely.
Looks like the mods won't even make a poll on r/france. But this is the worse french sub anyway, r/rance is the better one, and are currently considering extending the blackout. It looks like most people there are in favor of letting the mods do what they see fit to extending it for longer and voting again sometime in the future. Thank god at least one french sub lives up to our reputation haha
r/norge (norwegian sub) just went indefinite at once, it was highly supported when it happened, I'm sure we would have that chaos as well if they opened it and then wanted to close again.
I think that's a big thing. The people who most strongly supported the blackout largely left or at least use Reddit a lot less.
Heck, one sub I use frequently, the Stardew valley sub, apparently did a poll yesterday (and only yesterday) about next steps. But I was treating the 14th as a day to still stay off Reddit (it wasn't really clear exactly when the blackout should have ended), so I didn't get to even have a say in the poll despite using the sub frequently. I only even saw it because of a post announcing the results (majority wanted further blackout but it needed 2/3s).
That poll sounds very disingenuous lol, why make a poll during the short time where most of the users won't be able to take it ? Especially when to get to the absolute majority, you'd need the people not able to take it to come in and vote. To me, it sounds like they simply wanted to "appear" democratic but didn't actually want to go through with possibly losing the sub.