One month after launch, will half of the top 20 posts on Reddit's r/place be anti-Reddit, pro-blackout or anti-Spez?
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resolved Aug 20
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YES

Reddit's r/place is back!

Have the Reddit admins chosen a rather bad time to launch it, given the very recent changes they made leading to anger, blackouts and protests? Given the timing, they may have just given their loudest critics a platform to continue making their point!

One month after launch (the closing date of this market) I will visit r/place and set it to show the top posts from the past month. I will count how many of the top 20 posts are in some way anti-Reddit, anti-admin, anti-Spez or in some other way using the platform to protest or criticise. I will also include any posts which are referencing protest and criticism. If that number is 10 or more, this will resolve to YES.

Here are some of the sort of posts which would count:

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154s3g0/omg_the_germans_are_not_holding_back/

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154s6bi/what_a_start/

Market notes:

  • There is a subjective element to this market, so I will not trade myself

  • If a post is only partly anti-Reddit, I will lean towards counting it. So something like this would count becuase the "fuck Spez" wording is unavoidable - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154rtpk/rplace_2023_1_hour_after_start/

  • At the time of creating this market, setting r/place to show me the top posts of the last month is showing me last year's top posts instead. I think this is becuase r/place has only just come back, but if that's still not working on 20th July, I will use the top posts of the last week instead - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/top/?sort=top&t=week

  • Remember that Reddit's admins have the power to delete, lock, hide or remove content that they don't like. So if they manage to surppress enough negative content, this may end up resolving NO even though users have been consistently posting and upvoting that content!

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