HooptyDooDooMeisterReddit comments on every post about the blackouts
debasedI heard lots of very similar comments about protests in France, always from people who didn't even join the protests in the first place, too.
CoderKatI think that's a big thing. The people who most strongly supported the blackout largely left or at least use Reddit a lot less.
Heck, one sub I use frequently, the Stardew valley sub, apparently did a poll yesterday (and only yesterday) about next steps. But I was treating the 14th as a day to still stay off Reddit (it wasn't really clear exactly when the blackout should have ended), so I didn't get to even have a say in the poll despite using the sub frequently. I only even saw it because of a post announcing the results (majority wanted further blackout but it needed 2/3s).
That poll sounds very disingenuous lol, why make a poll during the short time where most of the users won't be able to take it ? Especially when to get to the absolute majority, you'd need the people not able to take it to come in and vote.
To me, it sounds like they simply wanted to "appear" democratic but didn't actually want to go through with possibly losing the sub.