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No fooling: Reddit’s r/games goes silent for one day to call out hate, bigotry
The Internet may have already begun exploding due to April Fools' Day pranks, but one site's April 1st gesture is decidedly not a joke: the temporary closure of Reddit's "r/games" channel. An 8pm ET post on Sunday confirmed a united front by r/games' moderation team to shed light on the "condescending, dismissive, vindictive and pessimistic attitudes we see in our day-to-day activity." Instead of being able to create new topics or post comments, the community's 1.6 million subscribers will be left reading a locked moderator post that describes an average day's discourse on the site—along with the mod team's hopes for change.
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"The issue still persists" Humans. Lets just get rid of them all, then we will all enjoy digital delight. "Vive la Difference" without that we have no reason or purpose to exist. Balance, it will end and start with balance.