On the old Chapo subreddit, the sub was made private for like a day or something as a bit. A very angry person made a lengthy text post that was titled something like "Closing the Sub as a Bit Was NOT Ok"

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I remember, the part I was missing was from someone else who commented that they did it because they reached 42069 or 69420 members. I mean I knew it was something ridiculous but I forgot it was THAT ridiculous. Those were the days

[–] erik@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that place still had a bit of the reddit stench on it, but its heyday was probably the most active I was on that web-site. So many great posters.

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss aspects of it sometimes, but the community here is so much better.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We purged all the transphobes, patsocs, succdems and stupidpol types

comfy-cool

[–] NapoleonBlownApart@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Yup! Love it!

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't it have something to with avengers too?

[–] erik@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe in the comments? It got pretty wacky in there. The OP I think was mostly saying that it was debilitating to the members of the community that were part of vulnerable communities to close a subreddit for a day.