[HN] Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

It will indeed pass, but hopefully it's just the equivalent of someone nudging a snowball down a hill. I hope more and more users concerned with quality will move to other services, and then reddit gets left with trash.

Hopefully it stays around to a degree because there is still a lot of valuable information on it. I ended up on there this morning, troubleshooting some emulator problems.

I hope subs continue locking new submissions

A massive, organized, and justified protest being labeled as "noise" tells you all you really need to know.

Which is why they doesn't have set an end date