Hi everyone! The community has voted that we should take a week off by a large margin. So we are going to.

From now until the end of the month we'll be in a nice beach house drinking Riot punch (get it? the logo is a fist? I AM FUNNY; PHREAK BEWARE) and owning one another in so many ranked 5s games that not even heimerdinger will be able to count them. Everyone will still be expected to obey reddit.com's site-wide rules.

1. Don't spam (aim to contribute at least 9 selfless comments/submissions for every single self-promoting submission/comment).
2. Don't ask for votes or engage in vote manipulation.
3. Don't post personal information.
4. No child pornography or sexually suggestive content featuring minors.
5. Don't break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of the site.

We have kept only those scripts that enforce these rules in place, as well as any scripts we put in place to ban those who systematically broke these rules.

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Alright, about that poll. Let's talk numbers.

Last week we hosted a poll that would let you decide whether or not we took a break from moderating for a week. We gave three choices:

1. Yes, take a break from moderating and reduce automod's duties to enforcing site-wide rules;
2. Yes, take a break from moderating and allow the automod to automatically remove comments and submissions after a certain number of community reports; and
3. No, don't take a break

Here are the results:

Option	Vote count	Percentage
Yes	11537 votes	47.7%
No	6728 votes	27.8%
Yes + report-based removals	5904 votes	24.4%
Total yes votes	17441 votes	72.16%
Total votes	24169 votes

We also ran analytics on the link that led people to the poll. Some notable takeaways:

• Of the 37,080 clicks that happened (when I refreshed both pages at the same time), 24169 of those clicks turned into real votes. That means that 65.2% of those who clicked the link actually continued to vote.
• 3% (1120) of all users that clicked the link came from "np.reddit.com" sources. If you assume that 100% of the users that came from np sources voted in this poll (which would be ridiculous), then that share could be as much as 4.6% of the total vote. It seems safe to say that brigading did not heavily impact this vote.
  
• The 15% of "Unknown" sources of referrals should mostly be users using do-not-track style services. Their share is actually smaller than typical in this poll. The typical levels of "unknown" users in these analytics run 20%-30%.
• 1.4% of users that clicked the link use the dark theme for this subreddit. That low usage reflects other analytics we have run in the past, suggesting chronically low usage of the dark theme.

Both images were taken on Sunday, May 24th at approximately 6:20 PM ET.

edit: hi mom!

edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!

edit3: WOW thanks for all the support. You guys are awesome. I hope riot sees this so they can address this issue faster.