The shitlords tend to stay and mess with the place. Digg had the same thing happen. People like me that just want ta place to hang out and post once in a while when the topic is interesting bail when nonsense like this happens. /r/all is disgusting right now. Do I as a (granted self identified) normal person want to be a part of that? Hell no.

They could have used this announcement to ban so many truly vile places, yet they chose this one. They could have banned /r/picsofdeadkids or /r/cutefemalecorpses or /r/spacedicks and this shitstorm would not have happened.

I left reddit when the whole /r/jailbait thing went down what? three years ago now? Damn time flies on the internet. I left not to defend creepy people posting borderline kiddie porn, but the attitude of the admins who one day say "FREE SPEECH!" and the next day lose their spines when a reporter writes a story about the consequences of that philosophy.

Reddit is looking for a buyer to cash out. This is my hypothesis anyway. This is the sanitation scrub before someone like Newscorp buys it and turns it into nothing but ad space.