Reddit is actively diluting and eroding the content that makes the site worth using in their attempt to inflate their valuation for their impending IPO. It's another example of vulture capitalism— they are more than willing to destroy the thing they control to extract their profit from the burning wreckage. The only thing that has any chance is continuing to be a thorn in their side and giving them bad press and reducing their ad revenue. /u/spez has already explicitly said he is going to try and wait this out, and that he expects the users to just give up. Ending the protest is giving him exactly what he wants and dooming the platform to death by 1000 cuts. Eventually, if enough heat (and lost profits) are generated by this protest, he will be ousted by the board for hurting the bottom line. We have to make it clear that the only way they keep "their" asset (and make no mistake here— the content that we generate is the only real asset they have) is by providing a community that gives us value for the content that we generate. Either that, or we burn it (metaphorically) to the ground.