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Reddit. (n) A place to trade one’s soul and free time for imaginary Internet points.
What is reddit?
Link Aggregator Discussion forum
What is reddit? (really)
Subcommunities within reddit Can subscribe to many subreddits Personalized front page assembled from
subscribed subreddits
/r/subreddits
/r/pics Interesting pictures
/r/gaming Video game news and discussion
/r/bestof Remarkable comments from other
subreddits /r/IAmA
Celebrities or people with interesting lives say “Ask me Anything”
/r/examples
Digg (yes, it still exists) Fark 9gag (dirty thieves) StumbleUpon Newsvine Imgur (benign competitor and default
image host for reddit submissions)
/r/MajorCompetitors
Advertising Banners in sidebar Sponsored links
Donations Reddit Gold
Merchandising Reddit Gifts
/r/RevenueModel
Reddit came online in 2005. It was quickly acquired by Condé Nast in
2006. It was transferred to Condé Nast’s
parent company, Advance Publications, in 2011.
Reddit became an independent entity again in 2012.
Advance Publications is still reddit’s largest shareholder
/r/CondéNast
A sockpuppet is a false online identity, especially one used to provide false consensus.
In the early days of reddit, the founders ran hundreds of sockpuppet accounts to provide the illusion of an existing community.
It worked.
/r/SockPuppets
{In a recent AMA, a reddit administrator suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger join their team. Arnold accepted.
/r/Arnold
{The reddit alien is named Snoo.
/r/Snoo
Reddit users hold an annual Secret Santa gift exchange.
Last year, Bill Gates took part in it. He gave a stuffed animal, a travel book,
and a donation to Heifer international in his recipient’s name.
/r/SecretSanta
Reddit has subreddits, /r/randomactsofpizza and /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza, dedicated to random gifts of pizza.
Redditors post their situations or reasons they or their nominee should receive pizza.
Readers can gift pizza to random people over the Internet.
/r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza