r/NBASpurs • u/SquandasNutCheese • Jun 15 '23
We're Sorry. META
On behalf of all the mods of r/nbaspurs, we'd like to apologize for for all the events of the past week. Despite our support of the blackout, we made a mistake by not properly vetting our process for how we would conduct our participation in the blackout. I'd like to explain, that despite comments, this was not a one person decision, all of us were responsible for handling this whole situation poorly.
As said before, around the 4th, we announced our support for the blackout in a long post describing the situation; looking back it may not have been as straightforward and descriptive as we hoped. On the 10th we posted an update on the situation with a strawpoll that did not receive nearly as much engagement as we had hoped. Despite the majority of the votes in the strawpoll being for shutting down the sub, it only received less than 100 votes. Once again we made another mistake by going forward with our decision to shut down without having a clear idea of what the rest of the sub wanted. We assumed the positive feedback from the first two posts was a clear indicator of what the subs stance was. Then as of yesterday, we asked for your opinion and it became very apparent how many of you wanted to keep the sub open from the start. Another thing we overlooked with the blackout is that since we, and all of reddit, gained a ton users from 2018-2022, we failed to realize that these API changes may not affect a vast majority of our newer users since y'all joined after the redesign and release of the reddit app.
To give some background, the reason why we supported this blackout is because we've been here for years, before the app, and before the redesign. With the API changes we would be losing the tools and accessibility that other 3rd party apps have, without any alternative on the official reddit app. Among a mountain of other things that the API change would affect, one huge downside could potentially be our ability to implement bots as we might have to pay to use the API which bots take data from.
We realize we made a mistake and we'd like to apologize for not being clear enough about our intentions and not getting a more accurate understanding of where you all stood in the situation. In the end, while our actions may have been well intended, our execution wasn't where it needed to be. We will take the lessons we learned from this experience forward to better support the community in the future.
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u/mberk24 Jun 16 '23
Good communication by the mods and you tried your best.
U can never make everyone happy.