
###[As](https://i.imgur.com/5Jj0LOa.png) many of you have noticed this week, r/nba has been inaccessible since Monday as a result of joining the ongoing protest against Reddit’s upcoming API changes (read more on that below).
###Like many other subreddits, r/nba participated in the Reddit blackout following a litmus test of our community. Users responded strongly in favor of blacking out the subreddit.
###In the time since the lockout began (and well before that), r/nba mods have been in direct and consistent communication with Reddit’s administrative team. The prevailing purpose of these conversations has been to seek enough concessions and assurances from Reddit that we feel confident we can continue to maintain r/nba as an inclusive and accessible community for basketball fans from all walks of life, across the globe.
###We believe that we have made enough progress in our conversations with Reddit that we can end the lockout and reopen the subreddit.
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#Q&A
#Why was r/nba locked out?
Beginning on June 12, many of Reddit’s largest communities made the difficult decision to close their subreddits as a form of protesting Reddit’s upcoming API changes that will effectively make it too expensive for most third party apps to survive.
On top of the *significant* quality of life/user-experience perks that millions of Reddit users have grown accustomed to on these apps (such as Apollo and Reddit is Fun), some of these apps carry crucial accessibility features that let many members of our community access our subreddit. Several of these apps also feature advanced mod tools that greatly improve the ability of moderators to manage communities of this size.
#How was the lockout decision made?
After exhaustive and extensive deliberation within the mod team, we decided the best course of action was to leave the choice to the users of r/nba. This was achieved by crowdsourcing opinions from you over multiple days, including discussion threads and a voting poll that were stickied for multiple days at the top of the sub.
The result was an overwhelming amount of support in favor of a lockout.
Nearly 80% of the 8,000+ voters who participated in our poll were in favor of a lockout, with over 60% of total voters being in favor of an indefinite closure.
The renowned Pew Research Center uses samples of 10,000 voters across the United States to determine trends for a population of 350 million. While that isn’t the best comparison to our situation (Pew has methods and tools to filter out biases that we don’t have access to), we felt like 8,000 votes for a subreddit of our size, combined with the dominant sentiment within comment sections on all related threads, was a strong representation of our subreddit’s voice.
For anyone that missed the stickied posts or felt like they were not given a chance to voice their opinions, we duly apologize. We wanted to act in line with what r/nba users wanted and could only work with the response we had at the time.
To browse through some of the discourse that took place in the days prior to the lockout, please refer to high traction threads made by our users [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1404l03/dribbling_against_injustice_how_the_rnba/?sort=top) and [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/141x1ca/serious_can_we_as_a_community_participate_in_the/?sort=top), as well as mod announcements [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/141xpm9/your_input_needed_reddits_api_changes_rnba/?sort=top) and [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/142qxhu/meta_should_rnba_participate_in_the_upcoming/?sort=top) (poll).
#What did the lockout achieve?
Both prior and during the lockout, members of our mod team have had constant lines of communication with Reddit admins, including direct messaging and the ability to sit in collaborative meetings. We feel those conversations have been productive.
The pressure of the lockout has already resulted in Reddit making concessions as far as accessibility options go. This includes earnestly acknowledging they made a mistake in overlooking accessibility, fast-tracking development of such features on the official app, and most importantly, allowing non-profit third-party accessibility-focused apps to continue operating through the Reddit API for free.
Furthermore, admins have directly assured us that there will be far more clarity going forward with regards to future developments for mod tools and the official app, both with mods across the site and the userbase as a whole. Some of these roadmaps were already shared with us, and while we cannot discuss specific details at this time, we will relay to you whatever information we can when the time comes.
Additionally, and more specific to our subreddit, we’re working on some exciting, new API implementations down the road that would help improve our own subreddit tools (things like the data in our subreddit sidebar that’s been frequently broken recently). More on that at a future time.
#Were you forced to reopen?
No, we were in communication with Reddit admins before the blackout even started about our concerns with their proposed changes. We moved forward with the blackout as well as our discussions with them. They did communicate to us that they wanted our community to return, but no threat of removal of anyone from our team was made, nor did we ever feel like we did not have autonomy in the situation. Our mod team had a unified vision, and it was communicated to us that as such we were not going to be ousted or forcibly reopened.
#Why open now?
We know that many of you have been eager to regain access to the subreddit and we recognize the significance of r/nba as an outlet. We especially understand how inconvenient the timing of this protest was. At the same time, a prevailing point many of you made in the discussion threads prior to the lockout was that this timing also gave us a unique opportunity to make a larger relative impact and we believe that impact was realized.
We feel that sufficient enough progress has now been made in our conversations with the admin team that this is a good time to reopen.
by edgykitty
47 Comments
You pussies opened the sub after Reddit admins were going to get new mods. Truly pathetic
Y’all accomplished absolutely nothing
Somebody post the list of mod usernames
Poor babies scared to lose mod status
Lmao this is fucking idiotic. Thank god this clownery stopped and the sub is reopened
Meanwhile the Reddit CEO has gone on record saying he wouldn’t reverse his course. So the translation here is the mods missed the power trip and gave up on their “protest”.
Nuggets won their first championship in the franchise history and ego tripping mods robbed their fans of being celebrated here. Reddit should remove every one of you 🤡’s
i love how much hate the mods get now when they thought they were serving some greater than thee purpose.😂
turns out most people don’t give a damn and didn’t see no damn poll haha. the virtue signaling by the small minority was great to see though LOL.
finally i can get back to wasting my time arguing with idiots on this sub
You are all failures. Congrats on wasting everyone’s time.
Thanks a bunch for screwing over the Nuggets when we won our first Championship. Really cool stuff, guys, love the disrespect.
>At the same time, a prevailing point many of you made in the discussion threads prior to the lockout was that this timing also gave us a unique opportunity to make a larger relative impact and we believe that impact was realized.
Who said this? The unflaired folks in that thread that had like one sport related comment in their entire post history?
Just drop it. ~~Yall more fake than Embiid’s MVP…~~
E: Nah, Embiid doesn’t deserve these strays… Yall that bad.
Did you win the protest son?
Alright now r/SquaredCircle mods, you’re next.
Mods are dorks
Mods just say y’all don’t want to lose your mod status and opened this back up because none of you can actually put your money where your mouth is. As soon as it affects the mods, you guys open the sub up. Fucking pussies.
You guys somehow managed to achieve a Pyrrhic defeat.
6k voters for 7.75 million is literally a 0.008% vote. CLOWNS 🤡
Waste of time mods. Go nuggets
Mods, you should be ashamed of yourselves for pretending that you represented the voice of the people.
Doing a blackout is one thing but pretending it was the dominant sentiment is childish and insufferable.
You disrespected the community you claim to care about.
what was gained from this?
History was made with the nuggets winning a franchise first chip and all these mods could think of was how much ass they could eat while shutting the sub down and not even participating in the blackout themselves.
It’s Jerkin Time
Fuck you Mods go kick rocks
Clowns.
All I wanted was to talk shit after our first win in 47 years but Noooooooo my MOBILE APPS!!!!
Mods went out sadder than the 21-22 Suns
You guys are pathetic
MUH BLACKOUT MUH API
Hey mods, you guys look like big losers and should definitely feel bad. Just resign next time, you idiots.
Who the fuck voted on an extended blackout huh??? I just feel bad you guys took the time to type this all out and thought it would convince people
This was the funniest shit I think I’ve ever seen on Reddit. If the reddit mods cared at all about this protest, they’d all give up their mods and move to a different platform. Say fuck spez all ya want, but he runs this mfer, not yall. All yall did was piss off most users and made reddit look like the good guy. Fucking hilarious shit.
Mods hit a clutch 3 to cut the lead to 42
I wish you held the blackout longer so the Reddit admins would remove you clowns from the mod team🤡
dog shit baby ass mods
reddit administration is r/nba administrations father
Soft.
6,000 people voted to shut it down for the finals 😂
Admins: Better learn Chinese buddy
Mods: I’ll give up
Judging by the comments on this post in the first hour alone i’m going to say your little vote for the blackout was a flat out lie.
Let’s be honest: the only concessions and assurances you got from the admins was that they were gonna dump you from your only modicum of power in life so you guys had to reopen the sub.
Yall should put up another poll asking whether the mods should be replaced and then after 8000 votes are cast shut the poll down and do whatever it says. Worked so well the first time
Pew uses a representative sample lol, which clearly this was not. This was dumb
Right during the finals lol what a joke
Have the sub vote not just the small group of mods I’d say
I understand why, but this timing was the worst
r/nbacirclejerk is r/nba father