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63 votes
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Reddit's /r/history closed down for 24 hours in protest against Reddit's lack of anti-racist policies
25 votes -
Reddit releases "community points", tokens on the Ethereum blockchain awarded for posts - currently available in /r/cryptocurrency and /r/FortniteBR
20 votes -
A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
12 votes -
Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
Reddit introduces new "Start Chatting" feature across many subreddits, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest to broken promises
57 votes -
How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
26 votes -
Reddit's 2019 Transparency Report
15 votes -
Report detailing online activity of US Coast Guard officer accused of domestic terrorism shows extensive searches on white supremacy, conspiracy theories, and thousands of visits to /r/MGTOW
18 votes -
Sort by controversial
16 votes -
“Join Reddit to keep reading” - an account is now required to read comment threads on the mobile website
54 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
38 votes -
Suspected campaign from Russia on Reddit
31 votes -
Kylie Jenner shows me what's wrong with Reddit
9 votes -
Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
7 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
A novel example of namespace clashing in competition between bots
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems. Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who...
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems.
Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who calls it in a reddit comment with the phrase "RemindMe!", has been cloned and iterated upon by another bot, Kzreminderbot, which responds to the exact same trigger phrase. Both bots reply to the comment threads where they are summoned. Kzreminderbot has slightly more diverse features, including email/text notification, but the interesting thing here (I think) is the impotence of the response from the creator of RemindMeBot, who has added a link in their comment replies to send annoyed feedback to the second bot.
We talk occasionally about the scramble for usernames on new services, but this is an slightly novel example of the cascading hierarchies of website design. A feature which reddit lacked is added by a bot, but that bot is too provisional to cover the hole which it was meant to fill.
8 votes -
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
10 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
16 votes -
Reddit is testing warnings when submitting to highly-moderated subreddits and encouraging users to post in other subreddits
39 votes -
Reddit launches /r/Layer, a "community canvas" sponsored by Adobe
25 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
20 votes -
New research finds that user affiliations on Reddit can be used to predict which subreddits will turn so toxic they eventually get banned
30 votes -
Reddit is launching "RPAN" live streaming as a time-limited experiment for this week, but it will become a permanent feature soon
20 votes -
Reddit is preparing to launch a livestreaming service called the "Reddit Public Access Network"
30 votes -
Reddit is moving to a twitter-like public follower system
I recently received this message from an admin: Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past. Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users...
I recently received this message from an admin:
Hello! You are receiving this message because you have followed a user profile in the past.
Starting on 08/19/2019, we will begin showing some users new followers of their profile. In about 3 months, all users will be able to see all the usernames of their followers, including follows that were done in the past, while the user profile feature was in beta. Please take a moment to check your subscriptions list (where followed users also appear) to ensure that if you follow someone, you are comfortable with them being aware of this.
It's a rather big change and a shame that they are making reddit more and more like the rest of social media.
39 votes -
There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
21 votes -
Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet. I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does...
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet.
I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does it): You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
The quarantine message says:
It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials.
As a visitor or member, you can help moderators maintain the community by reporting and downvoting rule-breaking content.
Here's the message the admins sent them:
Dear Mods,
We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined in Reddit’s Content Policy.
The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
User reports and downvotes are an essential way that Reddit functions to moderate content. Limiting or prohibiting them prevents you from moderating your community effectively. Because of this, we are disabling your custom styling in order to restore these essential functions.
As stated in our Moderator Guidelines, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in it. Accordingly, here are the specific terms of the quarantine and the next steps we are asking from you as a mod team to resolve this situation.
Quarantine terms:
Visitors to this community will see a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing it. This messaging reminds users of the importance of reporting rule-breaking content.
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
We hope both these changes will help improve the signal around rule-breaking content and improve your ability to effectively address it.
Next steps:
You unambiguously communicate to your subscribers that violent content is unacceptable.
You communicate to your users that reporting is a core function of Reddit and is essential to maintaining the health and viability of the community.
Following that, we will continue to monitor your community, specifically looking at report rate and for patterns of rule-violating content.
Undertake any other actions you determine to reduce the amount of rule-violating content.
Following these changes, we will consider an appeal to lift the quarantine, in line with the process outlined here.
We hope that this process provides a viable way forward to restore the health of the community. However, if this situation continues to escalate, we will explore further actions, including the possible banning of your community.
Please confirm that you have received and understand this message.
109 votes -
Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features.
95 votes -
Reddit is moving forward with their Community Points ("donuts" in /r/ethtrader) experiment, including moving them onto the Ethereum blockchain
26 votes -
Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone
21 votes -
Reddit For Sale: How We Bought The Top Spot For $200 (2016)
23 votes -
A Simple Way to Reduce Harassment in Online Discussion Groups
13 votes -
Reddit user uses linux on Nintendo Switch as a work computer/tablet
13 votes -
Preventing harassment and increasing group participation through social norms in 2,190 online science discussions
11 votes -
Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked
17 votes -
Reddit’s /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban
33 votes -
/r/ChangeMyView moderators announce that they are launching their own site at ChangeAView.com
41 votes -
Long interview on the influence of Reddit, its culture and history, its place among other social media giants, and other topics such as hate speech and Russian manipulation.
7 votes -
Reddit testing a new "tip" feature. Giving real money to other users.
35 votes -
Anti-Muslim hate has been rampant on Reddit since the New Zealand shooting
17 votes -
Reddit has banned r/watchpeopledie
An undoubtedly horrific subreddit that always seemed to comply with reddit TOS and the admins has been banned, probably related to the NZ shooting video that was in the subreddit yesterday until...
An undoubtedly horrific subreddit that always seemed to comply with reddit TOS and the admins has been banned, probably related to the NZ shooting video that was in the subreddit yesterday until it was taken down by admins. Looks like they're getting ahead of MSM discovering that this shit exists on the site?
Will add any updates here.
r/gore is gone as well.
From @nacho:
It's not ahead of controversy, it's in response to the Reuters article calling out /r/watchpeopledie.
Members of a group called “watchpeopledie” on internet discussion board Reddit, for example, discussed how to share the footage even as the website took steps to limit its spread.
Reddit - which has over 20 investors, including Conde Nast owner Advance Publications - said it was actively monitoring the situation in New Zealand.
“Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy,” it said.
68 votes -
Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls
18 votes -
RIP Culture War Thread - /r/slatestarcodex's regular thread for debating polarizing issues showed the difficulties and risks of hosting those conversations
39 votes -
What would you want in a Reddit app?
My friend and I are considering finishing a prototype of a Reddit app. We've already agreed to the following features on first release (if we keep going). Similar urls to current Reddit website...
My friend and I are considering finishing a prototype of a Reddit app. We've already agreed to the following features on first release (if we keep going).
- Similar urls to current Reddit website (so you can change the URL to reddit.com and see the same page)
- voting, commenting, posting selftexts and links
- Directly uploading image posts may come later if it looks complicated
- Masstagger integrated.
- Dark theme (other options in later releases)
- Primary use case: desktop and mobile web.
- Performance first. Reddit's 1 minute load time on default mobile, missing/broken features on i.reddit.com/.compact, and a few tiny complaints on the desktop site are the primary reasons we are considering writing this app. Native is not in our collective skillsets or radar, so we're going to go the extra mile to make sure the app respects both your time and your battery where possible. We did do some research and found that Reddit has actually been negligent in this regard on mobile web, meanwhile we have years of experience in the subject.
- Mailbox (send/receive messages, orange icon on new message/comment reply/thread reply).
- No infinite scroll
- View source JSON of comments/posts.
What are some features/ideas that members of this community would really like in a Reddit app?
13 votes -
Reddit Transparency Report 2018
11 votes -
Reddit raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation - interview with Steve Huffman
31 votes -
Inside the secret Facebook war for Mormon hearts and minds - What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith?
12 votes -
Reddit is raising another $150 million to $300 million in venture capital
53 votes