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Hello,

I just removed the following links from the article's AMA section because I did not think they should have been included in the section. If anyone else thinks any of these are notable enough for inclusion, please feel free to re-add/discuss.

Cheers, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 03:32, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good work, it was turning into a laundry list Breadblade (talk) 16:13, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree - it was not relevant to the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.30.122.155 (talk) 18:18, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Livememe Issue

Saw this - I think it should probably be incorporated.

http://www.dailydot.com/business/reddit-quickmeme-banned-miltz-brothers/

Urbanterrorist (talk) 02:06, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

reddit is lowercase

reddit, according itself is written in lowercase. If eBay is written with a lowercase 'e' on its article then reddit should be with a lowercase 'r' on its article. --CGPGrey (talk) 21:16, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not as per Wikipedia style guidelines. MOS:TM says trademarks rendered without any capitals (reddit) are usually capitalized (Reddit), but trademarks beginning with a one-letter lowercase prefix pronounced as a separate letter (eBay) do not need to be capitalized if the second letter is capitalized. Breadblade (talk) 21:35, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm what about xkcd? The capitalization discussion there led to them using "xkcd" and not "Xkcd", arguing "common use" as the yardstick of note. I'd support "reddit". Forbes72 (talk) 05:11, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The letters are pronounced individually, so MOS:TM allows that trademark to be spelled in all capitals or all lowercase, depending on how it's usually spelled out. Breadblade (talk) 12:08, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if we can establish common use here. Reddit-the-company itself follows the convention of writing "reddit" everywhere, as is generally the case with such trademark conventions. However, news sources writing about Reddit generally call it "Reddit." Users of Reddit type it both ways on the website, and there isn't any obvious way of determining the predominant way there. This seems to me very much like the situation described in MOS:TM, where the trademark owner accounts for most of the instances of use of unconventional capitalization and asks everyone else to do so as well. — daranz [ t ] 13:52, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

American Censorship

this site banned RT without any reason it should be noted there as censorship--Quandapanda (talk) 11:14, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-censorship-169/

Volunteer community moderators of that forum apparently banned it for breaking site rules. This sort of thing happens frequently to sites that appear to be engaging in cheating or vote manipulation, and it's not surprising that Russia Today would call a ban of Russia Today censorship.Breadblade (talk) 18:16, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is an article about this from Russia Today: "RT.com partially banned by Reddit" (Archive). Russia Today. August 30, 2013. Updated August 31, 2013. I'll look for any from third parties. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:38, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Third party sources:

Alfonso, Fernando III. "Reddit's r/news bans RT.com for alleged spamming" (Archive). Russia Today. August 29, 2013.
Darcy, Oliver. "Reddit Partially Bans Russia Today For Alleged Spamming" (Archive). The Blaze. August 31, 2013.
Zara, Christopher. "Reddit Censorship? Russia Today (RT) Cries Foul Over /R/News Ban, But Reddit Says Blame The Moderator." International Business Times. August 30, 2013.

WhisperToMe (talk) 18:41, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How does the site make money?

The article could contain some info regarding how Reddit makes money to run the business. I do not see advertisements or fees to use the site. 80.223.182.224 (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They run ads and sponsored links, and offer a premium subscription to Reddit Gold. The latter is mentioned in the article, but only in passing. Breadblade (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Employee count needs to be updated.

The current reddit employee count is listed at 28. However if you check the tooltip, you'll see that number hasn't been updated this year, and the list of employees has grown to 42 (including 3 new hires added today).