Reddit has called moderators actions “malicious” and against the wishes of the community members. The numbers tell a different story. These are COMMUNITY protests and marking them otherwise is simply misinformation from reddit staff.
Don’t even get me started on the “It’s not ok to show people NSFW content when the don’t want to see it.” message that reddit has been sending out. The people clearly want this and even if they didn’t, REDDIT HAS A NWFW TOGGLE! As well as nswf blurring. No one who hasn’t flipped that toggle is seeing nsfw content.
The admins’ new mental gymnastics routine is pointing out that users who are logged in and voting are only a tiny portion of actual site visits, which are mostly anonymous no-account lurkers, so it’s still the minority holding the subreddit hostage from the majority even when there’s an overwhelming majority on the polls.
Of course, this assertion makes “the wishes of the community members” literally whatever the fuck the admins want to say it is since as soon as those masses create an account and express an opinion, they become part of the trolling minority whose opinions are to be discarded.
So I read what they said to mean “the content creators decided to close, the content consumers want you to be open”. Honestly, no one is posting/making/contributing without an account.
If the actors refuse to take the stage, the audience cannot force them to perform. The theater manager lifting the curtain should not change this.
You’re not wrong about your second paragraph, but since you seem to question how I got to my interpretation about admins making up what the “community wishes” are, I think you’re missing some context for what I said.
My comment specifically is referencing another recent post in which the admins said community polls aren’t truly signifying what the community wants because logged-in users don’t compose a significant portion of unique visitors.