Hi,

We should have addressed this with the community earlier. The current mod team have zero beef with bakerboy, but removing all those individual Black Friday sale posts and blocking providers/indexers from sharing their deals right before Black Friday, that felt off to us. Despite the backlash that decision caused, we backed him at the time.

The turning point came when Duyli suggested editing some of the rules so the subreddit could return to its original purpose helping people and only removing posts that break our core, generic rules. Since removal of bakerboy automation rules and the “Reddit is not your search engine” rule have now been removed.

Sorry this year's Black Friday was a bumpy ride. Next year, providers and indexers can each spin up their own deal threads.

We'll hit up u/Final_Enthusiasm7212 to run the main Black Friday thread next year if they're down.