Actually that decision was the reason I made the change to snapzu. As an administrative decision, it seemed icky. Like something YouTube or Facebook would implement without any feedback whatsoever. I always thought of reddit as the exception to the rule, the rule being "admins will make decisions, and if people don't like it, tough shit." Looks like reddit is just as susceptible to this practice as any other website.

I figured that I might as well kickstart the competition.