content: I'm honestly wondering if that move to Social Justice writing isn't what triggered them to remove the comments. It seems like the choice to remove comments came very soon after this latest Reddit disaster, and it seems like the Verge has been largely supportive of the "safer place" version of reddit. I'd imagine that got them a lot of backlash in their comments, so I'd bet the two are rather interconnected as the timing seems too coincidental.  I would assume their articles "Reddit is changing because it wants celebrities to visit more" and "Why this Reddit revolt will fail, just like every other one" that claimed that no exodus happened and that users were simply over the changes, were likely met with a pretty poor response.  Edit: Puts a bit more of a nail in the coffin when they "indicate the comments will return eventually."