As someone who visits Reddit purely for entertainment, I welcome the changes.
I can't stand Trump. But even if I was a supporter (or the subreddit in question was for a more amiable candidate), /r/all has been useless for the last couple of months. It's been swamped with hate speech and spam. I've stayed away from it altogether, which is a shame because it's a great way to find trending posts in subreddits I don't subscribe to.
An alternative would have been to allow users to block certain subreddits from their /r/all (making it /r/almost all, I guess). But this would have been difficult and confusing for new users and wouldn't help anonymous users at all.
I wonder if they lost a lot of traffic because of that subreddit.
I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?
I don't understand how r/sandersforpresident didn't also have the same effect on r/all during Bernie's rise...if there ever was a subreddit that had enthusiastically upvoting users, it was that one.
As a regular visitor of /r/all The_Donald is spoiling the experience. Racism and bigotry aside, if all posts are coming from the same sub there is a point to change the rules of /r/all.
EDIT: for typos
On a related note, now there is an anti-trump subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/
It's really interesting to watch the power struggle. It's one group of troll taking on another. Must be a headache for the admins.
So censorship is OK as long as it is done to the side you disagree with. (Not a Trump supporter, but I won't support any censorship.)
The front page of reddit now is actually quite pleasant and interesting. Definitely a huge improvement.
When s4p took over reddit, no-one batted an eye
One thing to note from /u/spez's announcement of the changes[1], which suggests the impact might not actually be that large:
>Interestingly enough, r/the_donald was already getting downvoted out of r/all yesterday morning before we made any changes. It seems the rest of the Reddit community had had enough. Ironically, r/EnoughTrumpSpam was hit harder than any other community when we rolled out the changes. That’s Reddit for you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4oedco/lets_...