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It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.
Meh, any engagement bump will be fleeting, and meanwhile they're going to have another round of Reddit Sucks articles about either a) /r/place being taken over by anti-reddit people or b) Reddit censoring /r/place.
Spez clearly believes all press is good press and the articles will drive some traffic to reddit so he's not even wrong.
Ayep. It's a clever move to get a July traffic bump to offset any losses from the unpopular API etcetera decisions. Then they can point to the overall numbers and say hey, our average visits per user actually went up after we closed the API, so this is proof our users actually love all our shitty recent decisions.