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Wait, I thought the objective was to reduce traffic to reddit.
It's funny for a day, but it'll be a graveyard in a week, I'm guessing.
I think this is the best possible response to being essentially forced to reopen.
Forcing mods back is one thing, but it's a lot harder to bring back users once they've found another chew toy to gnaw on.
Or rather it's a lot harder to bring back users and make them stay if all they can see are sexy pictures of John Oliver
Reddit admins: "Stupid sexy ~~Flanders~~ John Oliver!"