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List of AMAs

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:

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). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.135.37.244 (talk) 20:19, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User Karma being used to block new posts.

I'd like to request an update to the 'User' Section, mentioning that Karma is also used as an automated way to bar people from posting further on reddit, if their Karma becomes negative. While Karma is used to measure a given user's 'respect' on reddit, this is arbitrary and not 100% factual. More over, the Karma system being used to mitigate unwanted posts within the community is a functional system that has been confirmed, yet it is not mentioned here despite the fact the arbitrary system of 'respect' is. It is a confirmed fact that if a user accumulates a negative Karma score below -5, they are no longer allowed to post on any subreddit until someone boosts their score up. This potentially bars and defacto bans a person if they can no longer post links or text posts that people will then upvote, or if no one upvotes their previous posts which, under the upvote/downvote system, moves said comments or posts further out of the view of others.

Given this as a real impact on a users experience that can be proven, and the notion that someone gains respect as their Karma score goes up can't be proven, I'd like to request that an edit be made to the User section explaining how negative Karma scores effect users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigaus (talk • contribs) 21:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

yup, this is confirmed. Worldnews and Gaming do this. -25 comment karma. i've now posted the evidence for the rest of the world to see. 64.229.137.56 (talk) 09:02, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:BLOGS, a couple of Reddit posts are not regarded as a reliable source by Wikipedia. We'd need a secondary source that had written about the functionality and its use or misuse. --McGeddon (talk) 11:29, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
then neither are 60% of the citations on this page. please remove those first, then we can talk. 76.70.41.33 (talk) 12:34, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That other stuff exists isn't a coherent reason to postpone a discussion. If you're unable or unwilling to explain to other editors how those Reddit posts somehow actually meet the criteria of WP:RS, then the content has to go. --McGeddon (talk) 12:49, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
more evidence. suck it down... http://i.imgur.com/nw1x7lt.jpg 76.64.45.85 (talk) 03:32, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
and... confirmation, after threatening them with a media war: http://i.imgur.com/VcPdJbI.jpg 76.64.45.85 (talk) 05:03, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Again, Reddit posts are not reliable sources. --McGeddon (talk) 07:50, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And, account shadowbanned for complaining to the admins about it. also, funny... those aren't reddit posts. they're private comments... screenshots to be exact. 64.229.137.141 (talk) 05:14, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 28 April 2014

Please change portmanteau to portmanteau Pcanavan (talk) 13:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done (t) Josve05a (c) 14:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New default subreddits

As of yesterday there are now fifty default subreddits.

Here is the new list: /r/announcements

/r/Art

/r/AskReddit

/r/askscience

/r/aww

/r/blog

/r/books

/r/creepy

/r/dataisbeautiful

/r/DIY

/r/Documentaries

/r/EarthPorn

/r/explainlikeimfive

/r/Fitness

/r/food

/r/funny

/r/Futurology

/r/gadgets

/r/gaming

/r/GetMotivated

/r/gifs

/r/history

/r/IAmA

/r/InternetIsBeautiful

/r/Jokes

/r/LifeProTips

/r/listentothis

/r/mildlyinteresting

/r/movies

/r/Music

/r/news

/r/nosleep

/r/nottheonion

/r/oldschoolcool

/r/personalfinance

/r/philosophy

/r/photoshopbattles

/r/pics

/r/science

/r/Showerthoughts

/r/space

/r/sports

/r/television

/r/tifu

/r/todayilearned

/r/TwoXChromosomes

/r/UpliftingNews

/r/videos

/r/worldnews

/r/writingprompts


Bigemurphy (talk) 09:17, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

reddit was rewritten in Python in December 2005

Hi There. Interesting historical fact not covered the article: reddit, when originally launched, was written in the Lisp programming language, but was rewritten in Python by Aarom Swartz and others in December 2005 "It was pretty much done in one weekend" - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

Dwarring (talk) 21:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reddit's business model

A review of Reddit's business model is in the New York Times today.

  • Isaac, Mike (27 July 2014). "Can Reddit Grow Up?". The New York Times. New York: NYTC. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:40, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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