But I still think it's a vocal minority of the content-creating minority. It's true that the moderator blackout has been driven by reddit's "power users," though, so that should definitely be a cause for concern for the reddit administrators. The power users and moderators are reddit's "one percent," and the users so happen to generally be favorable to their cause.
You mean the rule that states that less than 25% of a website's user base create the content? If we apply this rule to people who are willing to sign a petition, that makes roughly 2.2% of users who actively wish for Pao to leave, with only 25% of them willing to go out and create "content" in the form of a signature.
Reddit has around 15,000,000 unique visitors per month. 83,000 visitors is barely above 0.5% of the user base.
So yes, definitely a vocal minority.
Except it is the vocal minority that create and comment on content.
But I still think it's a vocal minority of the content-creating minority. It's true that the moderator blackout has been driven by reddit's "power users," though, so that should definitely be a cause for concern for the reddit administrators. The power users and moderators are reddit's "one percent," and the users so happen to generally be favorable to their cause.
Gotta keep in mind the 25% rule of the internet though.
You mean the rule that states that less than 25% of a website's user base create the content? If we apply this rule to people who are willing to sign a petition, that makes roughly 2.2% of users who actively wish for Pao to leave, with only 25% of them willing to go out and create "content" in the form of a signature.
I'd say it's still a very vocal minority.