In one very creepy corner of Reddit, a war over content theft is raging.
On Monday morning, r/NoSleep – a fiction-based, first-person horror subreddit with almost 14 million subscribers – went private for a week. At the time of writing, anyone visiting the sub is greeted by the following message.
NoSleep has gone private in support of its authors.
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It's no exaggeration to say that a huge number of people will be affected by this closure.
According to the tracking tool Reddit Metrics, Reddit is currently home to almost two million subreddits – and in terms of subscriber count, NoSleep is in the top 50 overall. The stories posted there regularly receive thousands of upvotes (the all-time most upvoted story has around 38,000), and a huge number of new stories are posted each day. Read more...
More about Reddit, Horror, Creepypasta, Culture, and Web Culturefrom Mashable https://mashable.com/article/nosleep-subreddit-private-protest-copyright-theft/
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