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==Incidents==

===Going closed source===

===Hiding sticky comment vote counts, January 2016===

Since January 2016, vote counts on comments pinned by Reddit moderators are hidden from public views and only visible to moderators of the same subreddit. This prevents the public from knowing whether a moderator decisions was widely agreed upon.<ref>[https://archive.today/2025.06.30-222930/https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/400on6/remove_karma_display_from_stickied_comments/ Remove Karma Display from Stickied Comments : ideasfortheadmins]</ref>

===Going closed source, September 2017===

In September 2017, Reddit reverted on their open source policy and archived their public repositories, citing difficulty to stealth launch features and desire to move away from a monorepo architecture. Users responded by noting that neither of these reasons require being closed source, and that Reddit had been slowly becoming less transparent over time.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/ |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref>

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 ==Incidents==
-===Going closed source===
+===Hiding sticky comment vote counts, January 2016===
+Since January 2016, vote counts on comments pinned by Reddit moderators are hidden from public views and only visible to moderators of the same subreddit. This prevents the public from knowing whether a moderator decisions was widely agreed upon.<ref>[https://archive.today/2025.06.30-222930/https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/400on6/remove_karma_display_from_stickied_comments/ Remove Karma Display from Stickied Comments : ideasfortheadmins]</ref>
+===Going closed source, September 2017===
 In September 2017, Reddit reverted on their open source policy and archived their public repositories, citing difficulty to stealth launch features and desire to move away from a monorepo architecture. Users responded by noting that neither of these reasons require being closed source, and that Reddit had been slowly becoming less transparent over time.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/ |url-status=live |access-date=21 Apr 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref>