That's an interesting little political strategy, since a lot of the community is pidgeonholed into that one small forum - where in order to participate you are forced to either reciprocate their political dogma or stay silent, pacifying those who are undecided and radicalizing those who agree, all the while barring out those who disagree.

Thus, by the filter of reddit you have essentially poltically conditioned a large portion of a fanbase of a franchise you don't even own.