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		Frenchgeek on July 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum How so? Their community shut down to regroup and protest, without anticipating others doing the same.

jmount on July 8, 2015 [–]

And "The secondary purpose" was a protest, contradicting the claim protest wasn't one of their purposes.

Frenchgeek on July 9, 2015 | [–]

They didn't claim they didn't want to protest, they claim they didn't expect their protest to have followers.

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