[lolinder]

Or that company cares what the Reddit community thinks and is convinced that they have an ace in the hole. An ace like, say, having full control over the platform and being able to make the AMA look like it goes however they want it to.

[hgsgm]

Reddit community is far to suspicious of Reddit corporate to fall for that.

[lolinder]

Depends on which part of the community you're talking about. Many of the top-voted comments on some of the "sub blacking out" threads were to the effect of "TIL that there are third party apps." [0]

That part of the community is the part that Reddit probably wants to preserve, and that part could very easily see an AMA that appears to clear everything up and then get mad when their sub moderators go ahead with the blackout anyway.

[0] For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/142p1ax/comment/jn6...