I think the title speaks for itself.
EDIT: UPDATE: So apparently the former r/jailbait mod that is The CEO purged the sub’s mods and forced the sub to re-reopen under the old rules.
Mission failed! We’ll get them next time!
EDIT2: aaaaaaand the sub’s archived and no longer accepts new submissions. The garbage fire keeps going…
This is the best way to harm reddit. More than a decade of carefully organized human sorted and ranked data by topic on. Destroy that data, it’s ranking, it’s sorting - you destroy the value going forward
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Backups sure, but notice I said “going forward”
On the internet, something from two days ago can be stale data
They can have as many pristine backups as they want, but the people buying that data want the fresh data, and now, at least on pics/videos/interestingasfuck/etc they don’t have that, they have John Oliver and porn (and sometimes both!)
That is less valuable than the authentic data from before this fiasco