@caseynewton Statistically, platform furors tend to die down when unpopular changes are begrudgingly accepted, but everything we know about human behavior in this context this comes from the last, what, 20 years?

Given what Reddit is (a platform for other people's content), what it wants to be (a profitable business that can IPO), and the increasingly-harsh tradeoffs they'll have to make to balance that - plus rising decentralization! - I dunno that I'd be confident in historical behavior.