It would appear there’s currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased
Video in action hosted here
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/
Last year right before closing there were some big changes as though bots came in. I will be surprised if it isnt the same again this year removing anti spez or reddit content.