Lol get the fuck out you shill. You're not even fucking trying.

Since I'm not sure about the risk of specifically linking TD, you can find the citation for the below data by searching TD for "over 6,000,000 subscribers" TD is at a minimum competitive with politics for advertiser-generating site share. Closing TD would lead to a temporary surge as it would be relatively big internet news, but the temporary gain would not be commensurate in the long-term loss from losing TD. This might be the only true impact of its closure, but it can be said to be objectively derived. If reddit closes an area that they sell advertisements for, they can no longer make money from it. Thanks to repeated blog posts, the reddit administrators as good as explicitly described the methods they would use to prevent TD from being able to reach the front page, and the several occasions of clear administrative-level voting system changes to affect TD are well chronicled, the most infamous being Trump's automatically-set-to-zero presidential portrait. There is not a confession, but the results are sufficient evidence of deliberate intervention. This post provides further evidence to that point. Finally, reddit is likely fearful of consequences that would come from closing TD. I think reddit would recover quickly enough, but the quite appropriate fear would be that its closure would lead to a power vacuum. Certain subreddits would be trolled to inoperable states. Administrators and moderators would be doxxed and targeted with harassment. The site would probably be hit with black hat attacks, making dealing with all the trolling even more difficult, people like Chuck Johnson/Pax Dickinson & Mike Cernovich would likely assist in lawsuits being brought against reddit, which while ultimately fruitless would cost the site more to deal with than the plaintiffs. It could also be a boon for competition, and if one site took hold fast enough that alone could kill reddit. That's their fear. I don't think it would happen, but you can understand why they would be trepidatious about the risk.