Reddit ( , organized in its logo as reddit ) is an aggregate of American social news, web content ratings, and discussion sites. Registered members send content to sites such as links, text posts, and images, which are then selected up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-made boards called "subreddits", covering a wide range of topics including news, science, movies, video games, music, books, fitness, food, and image sharing. Posts with more votes appear at the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough votes, finally on the front page of the site. Although strict rules prohibit harassment, Reddit administrators spend a lot of resources to moderate the site.
As of February 2018, Reddit has 542 million monthly visitors (234 million unique users), ranked as the 3rd most visited website in the US and # 6 in the world, according to Alexa Internet, with 57.4% of its user base coming from the United States, followed by the UK at 7.5% and Canada at 6.3%. In 2015, Reddit sees 82.54 billion pageviews, 73.15 million submissions, 725.85 million comments, and 6.89 billion upvotes from its users.
Reddit was founded by University of Virginia colleagues Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. Condà © Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. Reddit became a subsidiary of Parent company Condà © Nast, Advance Publications, in September 2011. In August 2012 , Reddit is operated as an independent entity, although Advance is its largest shareholder. Reddit is based in San Francisco, California. In October 2014, Reddit raised $ 50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and included investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto. Their investment rewards the company at $ 500 million later. In July 2017, Reddit raised $ 200 million for a valuation of $ 1.8 billion, with Advance Publications remaining a majority shareholder.
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This site is a collection of entries submitted by its registered users, which is essentially a bulletin board system. The name "Reddit" is a play of words with the phrase "read", that is, "I read it in Reddit." Site content is divided into several categories, and the most popular posts from these 'subreddits' are visible on the front page for those browsing the site without an account. As of May 2016, there are more than 11,400 active subreddit.
When an item (link or text post) is sent to the subreddit, the user, called "redditor", can choose or oppose it (positive vote/downvote). Each subreddit has a front page that shows a newer delivery that is rated as very high. Redditor can also post comments about submissions, and respond back and forth in the comment-tree conversations; the comments themselves can also be upvoted and downvoted. The front page of the site itself shows the combination of the highest-ranking writings of all subreddit subscribed by the user.
Front page rank - both for public front page and for individual subreddit - is determined by the age of submission, positive ("upvoted") to "downvoted" and total vote count. Dozens of submissions pass through this front page every day.
The site logo and mascot are alien line drawings dubbed "Snoo". Subreddits often use Snoo-themed variants that are relevant to the subject.
Although most sites work like bulletin boards or message boards, each subreddit has the option to have a related wiki that can provide additional material such as instructions, recommended reading, or collaboration for real-life events.
Users
Register an account with Reddit for free and does not require an email address. As of June 2015, there are 36 million user accounts. When logged in, Reddit users (known as redditers) have the ability to vote on submissions and comments to increase or decrease their visibility and submit links and comments. Users with experience and accumulated enough points can also create their own subreddit on the topic they choose, and interested users can add it to their home page by subscribing. Reddit comments and submissions are sometimes abbreviated and peppered with jargon, starting from OP (for "Original Posters" - users who post commented posts) to NSFW (because "unsafe to work" - indicating that posts have explicit sexual graphics or content ).
Users get "post karma" and "karma comment" points for posting text posts, posting links and comments, accumulating on their user profile. "Post karma" refers to karmic points received from text and link posts, while "comment karma" refers to karma points received from comments. Users can also be granted "Reddit gold" if other users highly value comments or posts, generally because of fun or high quality content; this process is known as "gilding". "Reddit gold" opens up some features that are not accessible to casual users, such as comment highlighting, ad blocking, exclusive subreddit, and private Snoo (known as "snoovatar"). Reddit also created a system of points called "creddits". Reddit gold creddits are like gift certificates: each creddit allows the user to give one reddit gold month to another. Creddits gives status, not additional revenue. They serve as a badge of honor for users among their peers, although redditers have tried to exchange previous points.
Reddit allows delivery that is not connected externally. This is called "self posting" or "text submission". Many discussion-based subreddits allow for the submission of texts such as "AskReddit" - where users are only allowed to ask broad-based discussion questions to the wider community. Post independently initially does not collect karma points for the sender. However, until July 2016, these text posts alone also resulted in postal karma.
The Reddit community sometimes coordinates external Reddit projects such as skewing on other websites, such as the 2007 incident when Greenpeace allowed web users to determine the name of the humpbacked whale tracked. Reddit users voted en masse to name the pope "Mr. Splashy Pants", and Reddit administrators pushed the joke by changing the site's logo to the pope during the vote. In December of that year, Mister Splashy Pants was announced as the winner of the competition.
At the site, the redditor commemorates their "cake day" once a year, on the anniversary of the day when their account is created. The cake day adds a small slice of cake icon next to the username for 24 hours. Redditor can "make friends" with each other, which gives redditor quick access to posts and comments from their friends list. The comment system and friend system, along with certain "Reddit ethos" (called reddiquette in Reddit), lend Reddit some aspects of the social networking service, though not at the Facebook, Google or other social networking levels. The Reddit community socializes at meetings held in parks and local bars around the world, and many localized subreddit for local face-to-face meetings exist.
Subreddits
The Reddit entry is organized into user generated interest areas called "subreddits". Initially, there is a major "main reddit", and other areas are "subreddits". No more reddit one main. Initially it was replaced by a group of "default subreddit". Starting June 2017, a replacement page has been changed that asks users to customize their "subscriptions". Subscribed subscriptions appear on the user's home page and in the top navigation bar, and can handle a wide variety of topics - such as video games, books, discussions, and music.
There are more than 11,400 total active subreddits to read, including the previous default set of 50 subreddit. This includes content aggregation called "/r/popular", displaying top-ranked posts across Reddit, with the exception of controversial subreddit (including pro and anti-Trump communities, as well as those associated with Gamergate). This replaces "/r/all", which does not filter controversial topics; it's still accessible via the "All" link at the top/r/popular.
In an interview with Memeburn, Erik Martin, Reddit GM, stated that "their approach is to give moderators or community curators as much control as possible so they can shape and cultivate the kind of community they want."
Popular subreddit includes:
- /r/changemyview, a forum to discuss topics for the purpose of understanding opposing points of view
- /r/IAmA, a forum for user-driven question-and-answer interviews
- /r/science, a forum for discussing science
- /r/The_Donald, Donald Trump's supportive political community
April Fool's Day
On April Fool 2015, a social experiment subreddit named/r/thebutton appears. It displays a 60 second button and countdown timer. The user accounts created before that day are eligible to participate. A user can only click the button once, or choose not to click on it. If the user clicks a button, the timer globally resets to 60 seconds, and the user's "talent" (icon next to the username) changes color. Colors are assigned based on a gradient from purple to red with purple marking up to 60 seconds and red as low as 0 seconds. The countdown reaches zero several times due to technical problems but eventually ends without further problems on June 5, 2015, after which the subreddit is archived.
For April Fool 2016, another experiment was launched involving the "Robin" chat widget. After clicking the titular button, a chat window like IRC opens with one other user, and allows a certain time to choose between three options, "Grow," "Stay" and "Leave". "Grow" will join the chat with another group, "Stay" will close the group chats and create a subreddit with the group as moderator and "Exit" will close the group chat.
April Fools' Day 2017 shows a social experiment based on/r/place. The subreddit contains a collaborative pixel art canvas, where users can place pixels every five minutes (the timer is ten and twenty minutes for several hours on April 1). Many people work together to create large graphics, such as flags or symbols. Often subreddit will join together as a group to add a picture of the community to its place. Place closed on April 3, 2017 at 13:00 GMT has been active for three full days.
For April Fool 2018, the experiment was launched on subreddit/r/circleoftrust. After clicking a button, each user is given a "circle" that they can entrust to others with a circle password key to unlock and join a circle. Although each user receives a private circle, they can join or betray other circles of users. Clicking the "join" button in other people's circles will cause the owner's circle to grow larger, while the "betray" button will cause the owner's circle to no longer work (because it "betrays" owner's trust). In subreddit/r/circleoftrust, all users have "talent" next to their username which displays the number of users who have joined their private circles, followed by the number of other circles that have joined the user. Those who have betrayed another user's circle have a zero ("?") Sign next to their number talent. Trial ends on April 6, 2018.
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History
In June 2005, Reddit was founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both graduates of the 22-year-old University of Virginia. The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in November 2005. Between November 2005 and January 2006, Reddit joined the company Aaron Swartz Infogami, and Swartz became the same owner of the parent company, Not A Bug. Condà © Nast Publications, owner of Wired , obtained Reddit on October 31, 2006, and the team moved to San Francisco. In January 2007, Swartz was fired.
By the end of 2008, the team has grown to include Erik Martin, Jeremy Edberg, David King, and Mike Schiraldi. In 2009, Huffman and Ohanian moved to form Hipmunk, recruiting Slowe and King shortly thereafter. In May 2010, Reddit was mentioned in the "2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies" list by Lead411. In July 2010, following an explosive traffic growth, Reddit introduced Reddit Gold, offering new features for $ 3.99/month or $ 29.99/year. Reddit Gold adds a number of features to the interface, including the ability to display more comments on the page, access to private "lounge" subreddit, and notifications each time a person's username is mentioned in the comment. It is also possible to comment or post from other users and thus give them gold membership as an anonymous gift.
On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationalally independent of Condà © Nast, operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications. On January 11, 2012, Reddit announced that it would participate in a 12-hour power outage on the entire site in protest over Stop Piracy Online. Power outages occurred on January 18 and coincided with blackouts on Wikipedia and several other websites. In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League, a group set up to organize future protests. On February 14, 2013, Reddit began accepting Bitcoin digital currency for Reddit Gold subscription services through a partnership with Coinbase bitcoin payment processor.
In October 2014, Reddit announced Redditmade, a service that allows moderators to create merchandise for their subreddit. Redditmade closed in February 2015. In November 2014, Chief Executive Yishan Wong resigned and co-founder Ohanian returned as full-time executive chairman. Ellen Pao, business strategist and Reddit partnership replaces Wong, becomes a temporary chief executive. On July 10, 2015, Pao resigned and was replaced by Steve Huffman as CEO.
Reddit launched a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb online harassment in April 2016. This tool allows users to hide posts and comments from selected redditers in addition to blocking private messages from the redditor. Redditor is blocked by clicking the inbox button.
By 2015, Reddit has about 100 employees. By January 2017, their number has increased to about 140, then increased to 230 in July.
Technology
Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005. This switch for wider access to the code library and greater development flexibility. The Python web template that a former Reddit Swartz employee developed to run the site, web.py , is available as an open-source project. On November 10, 2009, Reddit used Pylons as its web framework.
From 18 June 2008 to September 2017, Reddit is an open source project. During that time, all codes and libraries written for Reddit are available for free at GitHub, with the exception of anti-spam/cheating section. Beginning September 1, 2017, Reddit's main code repository, supporting its desktop and mobile websites, is no longer an open source.
Users can contribute to translating Reddit to 89 languages ​​using the Crowdin localization management platform.
On November 10, 2009, Reddit disabled their own servers and migrated to Amazon Web Services. Reddit uses PostgreSQL as their primary datastore and is slowly moving to Apache Cassandra, a column-oriented datastore. It uses RabbitMQ for offline processing, HAProxy for load balancing and memcache for caching. In early 2009, Reddit started using jQuery. On June 7, 2010, Reddit staff launched a revamped mobile interface featuring revised CSS, new color schemes, and many enhancements.
On July 21, 2010, Reddit outsource the Reddit search engine to Flaptor, which uses its search product, IndexTank. On July 12, 2012, Reddit uses Amazon CloudSearch. There are some unofficial apps that use the Reddit API in the Google Play store, and F-Droid repositories. Examples include: Reddit is Fun , Andreddit , F5 , BaconReader , Reddit Sync and a special Android tablet app called Reddita ReddHub and Reddit To Go! . An unofficial desktop application of Reditr is compatible with Windows, OS X, Linux and ChromeOS.
There are several Reddit apps for iOS. These include Karma, Upvote, iReddit, iPad-only apps like Reddzine and Biscuit, and, until April 2016, Alien Blue. In September 2014, the official mobile app for browsing the AMA (Ask Me Anything) was launched for the iOS and Android platforms under the name Ask me Any . In October 2014, Alien Blue was acquired by Reddit and became the official iOS Reddit app. In April 2016, Reddit released an official app called Reddit: The Official App, available on Google Play and the iOS App Store, and Alien Blue has been removed from the App Store for new apps.
Community and culture
This website is known for its open nature and a diverse user community that generates its content. Demographics allow for broad subject areas, or major subreddit, that receive much attention, as well as the ability for smaller subreddit to serve more niche goals. For example, the University of Reddit, the existing subreddit for communal teaching, emerged from the ability to enter and exit online forums, "classes", at will, and classes ranging from computer science to music, to existing art theory. The unique possibilities provided by the subreddit create new opportunities to increase attention and encourage discussion in many areas. In gaining popularity in terms of unique users per day, Reddit has become a platform for many to increase publicity for a number of causes. And with enhanced ability to garner attention and a large audience, users can use one of the largest communities on the Internet for new, revolutionary, and influential purposes.
In addition, the Reddit user base has spawned other websites, including the Imgur image sharing and host community, which began in 2009 as a reward for the Reddit community. In the first five months, he jumps from a thousand hits per day to a million total page views.
Statistics from Google Ad Planner show that 74% of Reddit users are male. In 2016, the Pew Research Center published a study showing that 4% of US adults use reddit, of which 67% are male. 78% of users get news from Reddit. Users tend to be younger than average with less than 1% of users being 65 or older.
Its popularity has enabled users to take advantage of this unprecedented great community. The ranking and ranking system of its innovative social rankings encourages useful methods to meet the specific goals of the audience or only find answers to interesting questions. User sentiments about the functionality and structure of the website include feelings about the breadth and depth of discussion about Reddit and how the site makes it easy to find new and interesting items. Almost all of the user reviews on Alexa.com, which assesses the unique 125th monthly Reddit monthly traffic rate in the United States, call Reddit's "good content" a pleasant quality. However, others raise the negative aspect of the Reddit community's potential to have some sort of "wild mind", embodying some negative aspects of group interaction theory such as crowd psychology and collective consciousness.
Philanthropy
Reddit and its subreddit have undertaken several charitable, short-term and other ongoing projects. In between events:
- In early October 2010, a story was posted on Reddit about a seven-year-old girl, Kathleen Edward, who was in the advanced stages of Huntington's disease. The girl's neighbor taunted her and her family. Redditor came together and gave the girl shopping at Tree Town Toys, a local toy store for stories owned by Reddit users.
- In early December 2010, members of the Christian subreddit decided to hold a fundraiser and subsequent members of the atheist subdivision decided to provide some friendship competition, cross-promotional fundraising campaign for the World Vision Clean Water Fund and Doctors Without Borders, respectively. Then, Islamic subreddit joined, raising money for Islamic Relief. In less than a week, three communities (as well as the Reddit community in general) raised more than $ 50,000. Much of this is generated by the subdivision of atheism, although smaller Christian subcitans have higher average donations per customer. The same donation drive in 2011 saw atheist subdivism collect more than $ 200,000 for charity.
- Reddit started the world's largest Secret Santa program, which still operates to date. For the 2010 Holiday season, 92 countries are involved in the Secret Santa program. There were 17,543 attendees, and $ 662,907.60 collectively spent on gift purchases and shipping costs. By 2014, about 200,000 users from 188 countries participated. Some celebrities have participated in the program, including Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg. Finally, Secret Santa's program expanded to other occasions through RedditGifts.
- Members of Reddit donate more than $ 600,000 to DonorsChoose to support Stephen Colbert's March for Keep Fear Alive. The donation sponge broke the previous record for most of the money donated to one cause by the Reddit community and produced an interview with Colbert at Reddit.
- Reddit users donated $ 185,356 to Direct Relief for Haiti after the earthquake hit the country in January 2010.
- Reddit users donated more than $ 70,000 to Faraja's Orphanage within the first 24 hours to help secure the orphanage after the intruder robbed and attacked one of the volunteers, who survived the attack on the head of a machete.
- In October 2012, "Shitty Watercolor", the popular Redditor known for posting watercolors on its website, broadcasts a 12-hour painting session on YouTube to raise money for charity: water, a nonprofit organization aimed at providing water drinking in a developing country. Redditor donated a minimum of $ 10 to get their painted portrait of size 5 x 5 cm (2.0 x 2.0 inches) on the square of a large sheet of paper. Cat-a-thon earns $ 2,700.
- As of February 2014, Reddit announced it would contribute 10% of its annual advertising revenue to nonprofits selected by its users.
- Reddit continues this policy for 2015, donating $ 82,765 each for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Doctors Without Borders, the Erowid Center, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelik Studies, the NPR, the Free Software Foundation , Freedom of Religion Foundation, and Tor Project.
- In response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake, redditor collected more than $ 145,000 for Direct Assistance and over $ 110,000 for MAP International.
Socio-political action
Reddit modeled sociopolitical action, building crowdsourcing, user-generated content, sharing, altruism, gamification, social reputation and social relevance (not financial return), participation, freedom of speech, openness, participation and/or self-government, new forms of interaction (eg #IAmA and AMA) and collective intelligence. This site has been used for various political engagements including President Barack Obama and Donald Trump's campaign. It has also been used for self-organizing sociopolitical activism such as protests, communications with politicians and active communities. Reddit has become a popular place for political discussions around the world.
March for Science
The March for Science comes from a discussion of reddit on the removal of all climate change references from the White House website, about which a user commented that "There Should be March of Scientists in Washington".
Internet Privacy, neutrality and anonymity of the Internet
Many reddit users are heavily involved in Internet privacy defenses, internet neutrality, and Internet anonymity. Before laws that jeopardize this redditor usually prepare pages to organize protests, create or curate content, call the responsible authorities and inform them about their problems and eg. tools and relevant organizations.
On January 11, 2012, Reddit announced that it would participate in a 12-hour power outage on the entire site in protest over Stop Piracy Online. Power outages occurred on January 18 and coincided with blackouts on Wikipedia and several other websites. In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League, a group set up to organize future protests.
Cannabis canalization
Most site users seem to support the legalization of marijuana.
Subreddit dedicated to marijuana/r/tree culture is most active in this regard and often organizes, coordinates or supports drug reform campaigns.
In 2010, the site runs ads promoting the legalization of marijuana at no cost, after Conde Nast stated that they did not want to benefit financially from this particular issue.
Commercial activity
In February 2013, Betabeat published a post acknowledging the entry of multi-national companies such as Costco, Taco Bell, Subaru, and McDonald's posting reddit-branded content that was made as if it were genuine content from legitimate Reddit users. Former Director of Communications Reddit notes that while a large number of Chief Marketing Officers want to "infiltrate the reddit community on behalf of their brands," he stressed that "self-promotion is condemned" and the site is "100 percent organic." He suggests that advertisers design promotions that "trigger conversations and feedback." He recommended that businesses use the AMA to get attention for community leaders but warned "It is important to approach the AMA carefully and realize that this may not be suitable for any project or client." Nissan runs the promotion of successful branded content, offering users free gifts to publish new cars, even though the company was later ridiculed on suspicion of astroturfing when the CEO only answered the puffing questions on the site. Taylor describes this situation as "high risk" noting: "We strive to educate people that they should treat questions that may seem impolite or out of the left field just as they would ask about a particular project they are promoting."
Reddit users are more aware-privacy than on other websites, using tools like AdBlock and proxy, and they hate "feelings manipulated by brand" but respond well to "content that pleads for smart and participant viewers." Lauren Orsini writes in ReadWrite that "Reddit's large community is the perfect hype machine to promote new movies, product releases, or political campaigns left behind" but "a very specific set of etiquette.Redditor does not want to advertise for you, they want to talk to you." Journalists have used the site as the basis for the story, though they are advised by the site's policy to respect that "reddit community of its members" and to seek appropriate attribution for the contribution of people.
Reddit announced that it will start using VigLink to redirect affiliate links in June 2016.
Reddit effect
Also known as the "Slashdot effect", the Reddit effect occurs when smaller websites have high traffic flows after linking to Reddit. It's also called "Reddit Hug of Death" among website users. Because Reddit is a very large site, the traffic is huge and can easily crash into smaller sites. In order for users to see broken websites, some Reddit bots have been created that retrieve website snippets before large amounts of traffic flood the affected websites.
"Restoring Truth" campaign
In response to Glenn Beck August 28, 2010, Recovering Honor rally (heavily promoted by him in his Fox News broadcast over the summer), in September 2010 Reddit users started a movement to persuade satirist Stephen Colbert to hold a counter-rally in Washington, DC The movement, later called "Restoring the Truth", was initiated by the mrsammercer user, in a post where he described the wake of the dream in which Stephen Colbert held a satirical rally in DC He wrote, "This will be a high watermark of American satire. people pretend to suspend all rational thoughts simultaneously, perfect harmony.This will feel like San Francisco in the late 60s, only we will not be able to get any acid. "
This idea resonated with the Reddit community, which launched a campaign to animate the event. More than $ 600,000 was raised for charity to get Colbert's attention. The campaign is mentioned several times in the air, and when the Rally to Restore Justice and/or Fear is held in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010, thousands of redditors travel.
During a post-meeting press conference, Reddit co-founder Ohanian asked, "What role does the Internet campaign play in convincing you to convene this rally?" Jon Stewart responded by saying that, although it was a very nice move, he and Colbert had already thought of the idea and the deposit to use the National Mall was already paid out during the summer, so it acted largely as a "validation of what we thought about trying". In a message to the Reddit community, Colbert then added, "I have no doubt that your attempts to organize and the joy you bring to your part of the story contribute greatly to the number and success."
Controversy
Websites typically allow moderators in individual subreddit to make editorial decisions about what content is allowed, and have a history of allowing some subreddit dedicated to controversial content. Many standard pages are highly moderated, with subreddit "science" prohibiting denial of climate change, and subreddit "news" banning opinion and column discounts. Reddit has changed editorial policies throughout its site several times, sometimes in reaction to controversy. Reddit has a history of providing platforms for inappropriate but legitimate content, and in 2011, news media covered the way jailbait was shared on sites before the site changed their policy to explicitly prohibit "suggestive or sexually suggestive content of minors". After several controversial incidents of Internet vigilantism, Reddit introduced strict rules against the publication of non-public personal identification information through the site (colloquially known as doxxing). Those who violate the rules are subject to restrictions throughout the site, and their posts and even entire communities may be removed for violating the rules.
2010
On December 16, 2010, a redditor named Matt posted a link explaining how he donated his kidney, and included a JustGive link to encourage users to donate to the American Cancer Society. After a positive reaction initially, Reddit users start suspicious of Matt's intentions, and suggested that he keep a donation for himself. The user telephoned his home and he received death threats. Matt finally proves that he's genuine by uploading his doctor's notes.
2011
On October 18, 2011, an IT manager posted a post to the "gameswap" subreddit offering Redditor to trade one of the 312 codes that have been awarded for the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution . A group of users gets their personal details, and starts blackmailing them for code. On Monday after posting the post, he received 138 threatening phone calls both at home and at his office, and at the end of the day he was fired.
2013
After the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, Reddit faced criticism after users misidentified a number of people as suspects. Notable among the allegedly identified bombing suspects was Sunil Tripathi, a student who was reported missing before the bombing occurred. A corpse reported Sunil was discovered at Providence River in Rhode Island on April 25, 2013, according to the Rhode Island Health Department. The cause of the death was not immediately known, but authorities say they do not suspect fraud. The family then confirmed Tripathi's death was the result of a suicide. General Manager Reddit Martin later issued an apology for this behavior, criticizing the "online witch hunt and malicious speculation" that occurred on the website. The incident was later referred to in the season 5 episode of the CBS TV series The Good Wife titled "Whack-a-Mole," as well as The Newsroom .
In late October 2013, the "political" subreddit moderator banned a large group of websites. Many left-wing opinion websites, such as Mother Jones, HuffPost, Salon, Alternate , The Daily Kosher , Truthout , Media Matters , and ThinkProgress as well as some of the popular progressive blog sites , such as Underground Democracy and Criminals and Wild . They also prohibit a number of right-wing sites - Italics , Breitbart , Daily Callers , Dailypaul , Channels Electricity , and Reason . Salon reports that "the section moderator explained in a post on Tuesday, the goal is' to reduce the number of blogspam submissions and sensational titles." Cleanup, the moderators explain, is also aimed at sites that provide a lot of "bad journalism." The list of restricted websites December 2013 has been modified since the end of October, and sites with original content, such as Mother Jones The Huffington Post , are allowed. The moderator also forbids the RT, which according to the moderator is the result of voice and spam manipulation, although a moderator states that he wants the RT prohibited for being funded by the Russian Government..
2014
In August 2014, photographs of the 2014 celebrity photo crew are widely disseminated throughout the site. The special subreddit, "TheFappening," was created for this purpose, and contains links to most, if not all, explicit images obtained criminally. Some pictures of Liz Lee and McKayla Maroney from leakage were identified by redditor and outside commentator as child pornography because the photos were taken when the women were underage. The subreddit was banned on 6 September. The scandal led to wider criticism of the website administration of The Verge and The Daily Dot .
Also in August 2014, moderators and administrators removed a large amount of content related to the Gamergate controversy; one thread on the "game" subreddit lost nearly 24,000 comments. This includes the subreddit "ZoeQuinnDiscussion", which is prohibited for violating Reddit rules. The administrator connects the 4chan ban to rob the thread and causes damage, the accuracy being debated by some redditor.
On December 18, 2014, Reddit took an unusual step to ban subreddit, "SonyGOP," which was used to distribute hacked Sony files.
2015
After Ellen Pao became CEO, at first he became the target of criticism by users who refused his lawsuit. Then on June 10, 2015, Reddit closed the 150,000 customer "fatpeoplehate" subcredit and four others cited harassment-related issues. This step is considered highly controversial; some commentators say that the ban goes too far, while others say that the ban is not far enough. One of the last complaints relates to the subreddit "proclaiming support" for church photographer in Charleston. In response to accusations of "tilting enforcement", Reddit reiterated their commitment to freedom of expression and stated that "There are some subreddits with very few views being highlighted repeatedly for their content, but that is a small piece of content on the site."
On July 2, 2015, Reddit began experiencing a series of blackouts when the moderator set a popular subreddit community to be private, in an event dubbed "AMAgeddon," an AMA portmanteau ("I wondered anything") and Armageddon. This was done in protest at the shooting of Victoria Taylor, an administrator who helped organize citizen-led interviews with famous people on popular subreddit "Ask Me Anything". The blackout organizers also expressed resentment about the recent termination of communications between Reddit and subreddit moderators. The blackout increased on July 3 when former community manager David Croach gave the AMA about being fired. Before deleting his post, he stated that Ellen Pao fired her with a year of health coverage when she had cancer and did not recover quickly. After this, Change.org petition to remove Pao as CEO of Reddit Inc. reaching more than 200,000 signatures. Pao posted a response on July 3 as well as an extended version on July 6 in which he apologized for poor communication and did not deliver an appointment. He also apologizes on behalf of other administrators and notes that the problem has been around for the past few years. On July 10, Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by former CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman.
In August 2015, Steve Huffman introduced a policy that led to the prohibition of some torture and sexual communities. Included in the ban is a lolicon called Huffman as "CP animation". Some subreddites are also quarantined for having "highly offensive or annoying content", such as/r/europe,/r/swedish,/r/drawpeople,/r/kiketown,/r/blackfathers,/r/greatapes, and/r/whitesarecriminals.
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In May 2016, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told an interview at the TNW Conference that, unlike Facebook, which "only knows what [its users] are willing to publicly announce", Reddit knows the 'dark secrets' of its users at the same time. the website's "value" page has been updated in relation to its "privacy" section. The video reaches the top of the website's main feed. Soon, announcements about the new ad content invited criticism on the website.
In September 2016, a Redditor named mormondocuments released thousands of administrative documents belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an act encouraged by the former Mormon community and atheists of the site. Earlier, on April 22 of that year, the same Redditor had announced his plan to do so. Church officials commented that the documents contain no secrets.
On November 23, 2016, Steve Huffman confessed to modifying the contents of many public user comments on Reddit that he did not like. He did so by altering the derogatory comments made towards him and making it appear as if the insult was directed at the moderator of/r/The_Donald.
On November 24, 2016, the Washington Post reported Reddit had banned the "Pizzagate" conspiracy from their site that allegedly violated their policy of posting other people's personal information, triggering a wave of criticism from users in/r/The_Donald, who felt the prohibition is censorship. The Reddit/r/pizzagate forum is devoted to conspiracy theories derived from a leaked John Podesta email, a theory that alleges DC Pizzeria Comet Ping Pong "is at the center of a child-harassment ring tied by John Podesta, former Clinton's campaign manager." After the forum was banned from Reddit, the words "We do not want witchhunt on our site" now appear on the previous page of the Pizzagate subreddit.
On November 30, 2016, CEO Steve Huffman announced a change to their page/r/all algorithm to block 'embedded' posts from a number of subreddit, such as/r/The_Donald. In the announcement, the CEO also apologized for editing private posts by users from/r/The_Donald, and declared intent to take action against the "hundreds of the most toxic users" of Reddit and "communities whose users are constantly crossing the line".
2017
In February 2017, Reddit prohibited alred rights for alred rights because it violated its terms of service, more specifically to try to share personal information about the person who attacked the right-hand man Richard B. Spencer. Forum users and moderators have accused Reddit administrators of having political motivation for the ban.
2018
In March 2018, it was revealed that Reddit's CEO had hidden Russian troll activity from users.
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References
External links
- Official website
- How I Make This Podcast - Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & amp; Steve Huffman (audio interview with founder)
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