it’s a site that divides opinion by its
very nature British warships comes to a
German torpedo attack not safe for life
or Marion Cotillard topless hello and an
example of the internet age at its most
controversial welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman t’ we’re counting down ten
crucial facts you should know about
reddit number 10
what is reddit a company fashioning
itself as the front page of the Internet
reddit is one of the most used and most
talked-about websites in the world built
as a quote true democracy the entirety
of the site’s content is produced and
popularized by a community of over 36
million registered users otherwise known
as redditors redditors post and comment
on pictures stories links and questions
having their voice heard within an
online community while also determining
which items receive most coverage by up
voting or down voting accordingly it can
be explained as an online bulletin board
on which users are given the power to
pick and choose which content deserves
to be seen and which doesn’t number nine
who created reddit in 2005 Steve Huffman
and Alexis Ohanian founded reddit
Huffman and Ohanian were roommates at
the University of Virginia where Hofmann
majored in computer science while
Ohanian graduated with degrees in
commerce and history the pair acquired
$100,000 of initial funding from
American seed fund Y Combinator in Juno
v and began building the site from there
after initial growth the site merged
with Aaron Swartz’s infogami in november
2005 with both businesses operating
under the umbrella firm not a bug
the following year saw reddits
popularity grow and a reported twenty
million dollar acquisition by publishers
Conde Nast in October 2006
which saw the company moved to San
Francisco
number eight how has reddit grown a
heavyweight in its field today reddit
was by no means the first of its kind
and has had to face off against many
similar companies during its existence
most notably Digg launched over six
months before reddit in December 2004
did allowed users an inherently similar
experience to that offered by Reddit one
could dig or bury user-generated content
in order to view the trendiest most
talked-about material on the web however
following reddit’s Conde Nast
acquisition the fortunes of both
companies began to drift to separate
ends of the spectrum while reddit
steadily progressed Digg announced an
extensive site overhaul in 2010 which
would eventually prove to be its
downfall and read its gain digs new
looks suffered glitches galore prompting
a massive migration from its site to
reddit’s by September 2011 reddit was
able to become operationally independent
of Conde Nast as it looked to grow even
bigger by itself the site was given a
massive financial boost in September
2014 after it secured 50 million dollars
in funding gathered from a flurry of
investors which included the likes of
actor musician Jared Leto and hip-hop
superstar Snoop Dogg number 7 what are
sub reddits subreddits are used to split
up and sort out the masses of
information that passed through reddit a
subreddit is essentially a specialist
section of the website dedicated to a
particular topic we’re all related user
generated media is posted subreddits
exists for all manner of subjects from
fitness to philosophy sports to space
travel the free nature of reddit means
that there also exists sub reddits that
many users might find offensive relying
prejudiced views within a public sphere
in July 2015 the subreddit system was
actively used against reddit itself in a
form of protest dubbed a mageddon site
users experienced an effective blackout
on July 2nd as moderators for many of
the most popular subreddit communities
altered their settings to private a move
made in response to the firing of
Victoria Taylor who had been a leading
figure behind the ever-popular AMA s
number six what are a maze my dad is the
diva ask me anything
yeah I’ll go dickless for Michael
Chiklis asked me almost anything yeah
what is that AMAs okay it’s like an
interview it stands for asking me any
time wrong new users on reddit will
immediately notice the site’s extensive
use of acronyms with am a being arguably
its best-known an abbreviation of the
phrase ask me anything a mas are a
feature of the highly popular subreddit
I am on where users open themselves up
to questions from other users in a form
of online press conferencing a popular
part of the reddit experience for
anybody regardless of their background
AMAs have received heightened attention
following various high-profile uses of
the feature by famous names within the
worlds of film music sport business and
politics even US President Barack Obama
hosted an AMA session during his
presidential campaign in 2012 Obama
answered questions on the space program
and the issue of Internet freedom in
particular during a 30-minute stint that
more than doubled the site’s usual usage
levels number five who monitors the site
reddit prides itself on being a vessel
for free speech with largely unaltered
and uncensored user to user interaction
happening every minute of every day in
keeping with this line of thought the
site is governed and moderated by just
about anybody who’s prepared to do so
each section or subreddit of the site
has been set up and is watched over by a
moderator a moderator can be anybody who
cares enough about the subject at hand
and is able to manage its particular
forum this approach has perhaps
inevitably led to many controversial
situations where inappropriate offensive
and occasionally illegal material linked
to racism homophobia and child
pornography among other things has made
its way onto the site however for all
the bad
those behind reddit itself believed that
the majority of the site’s content has
had a positive effect upon the internet
and the lives of its users the AMAs
being one of reddit’s foremost examples
of how the site can constructively help
and entertain number four who is Ellen
Powell a relatively new figure within
reddit’s history Ellen Pao joined the
company in 2013 and became CEO after the
resignation of you Shaun Wong in
November 2014 just two months after the
fifteen million dollar investment deal
had been made by July 2015 however
Powell had resigned from her position
quote by mutual agreement ending an
especially controversial tenure Pal
first came under fire following her
banning of five subreddit communities
including a group titled fat people hate
because they’ve been used as quote
platforms to harass individuals the user
backlash branded Powell as a
totalitarian an example of everything
that reddit is against because comments
regarding how herself gradually got
deleted off the site as well
and following the after mentioned
dismissal of Victoria Taylor a two
hundred thousand signatures strong
petition was made calling for Powell’s
resignation after only eight months in
the role the Princeton and Harvard
graduates stepped aside on July 10th
2015
however co-founder Alexis Ohanian
eventually announced that it had been
his decision to change how the AMAs
functioned and knock cows leaving many
redditors fuming and calling for his
resignation
number three what are some of the
benefits of reddit for all the problems
surrounding reddit however there are and
have been massive benefits to be had
because of the site a pioneer in terms
of web-based philanthropy there are
instances aplenty in which the reddit
community has rallied together for a
worthy cause the site’s philanthropic
efforts include an annual Secret Santa
program which has become the world’s
largest with over 200,000 people
participating in 2014 an early 2014
announcement that reddit would be
donating 10% of its advertising revenue
to nonprofit organizations voted for by
its users and the site’s various
attempts at creating a crowd funded
millionaire simply by asking its users
to donate $1 it’s in instances such as
these that the site’s community spirit
can showcase its better more immediately
endearing side number two how is reddit
changing recent events have clearly
pushed and pulled reddit into a
well-publicized period of change and
transition Ellen Powell has left the
company and has been replaced as CEO by
one half of the website’s founding
partnership Steve Huffman but the
questions surrounding what should and
shouldn’t be viewable on the site remain
in a recent rethink of their site rules
Huffman announced that hateful content
will remain accessible but only to those
who actively login to the website and
search for the material meaning that
potentially offensive posts will no
longer appear in public searches in a
less hardline approach to the matter
than that instigated by Powell Huffman
has underlined reddit stance saying that
the site quote believes there is value
in letting all views exist even if we
find some of them a pourraient however
Huffman has also warned quote if the
hateful users continue to spill out into
the mainstream reddit we will try more
aggressive approaches number one will
this affect how reddit functions
the more cynical critics might suggest
that recent events will lead to reddit’s
all but inevitable tightening up in
terms of the content that
and isn’t allowed however those working
for the website and those who remain
supportive of it surely hope that the
departure of Pao and the diplomacy of
Huffman will result in a compromise that
can placate all parties the changes
regarding what is accessible to those
that aren’t logged into reddit are
unlikely to curb the publication of
offensive material within the community
itself however they should prevent the
more casual user from coming into
contact with it and in the future could
help rien
with a little more positivity for the
general public with these facts make
your front page to vote for which news
story is covered next
head over to watchmojo.com slash the
jest and be sure to hit that subscribe
button for more newsworthy top 10s
published every week
very nature British warships comes to a
German torpedo attack not safe for life
or Marion Cotillard topless hello and an
example of the internet age at its most
controversial welcome to watchmojo.com
Stallman t’ we’re counting down ten
crucial facts you should know about
reddit number 10
what is reddit a company fashioning
itself as the front page of the Internet
reddit is one of the most used and most
talked-about websites in the world built
as a quote true democracy the entirety
of the site’s content is produced and
popularized by a community of over 36
million registered users otherwise known
as redditors redditors post and comment
on pictures stories links and questions
having their voice heard within an
online community while also determining
which items receive most coverage by up
voting or down voting accordingly it can
be explained as an online bulletin board
on which users are given the power to
pick and choose which content deserves
to be seen and which doesn’t number nine
who created reddit in 2005 Steve Huffman
and Alexis Ohanian founded reddit
Huffman and Ohanian were roommates at
the University of Virginia where Hofmann
majored in computer science while
Ohanian graduated with degrees in
commerce and history the pair acquired
$100,000 of initial funding from
American seed fund Y Combinator in Juno
v and began building the site from there
after initial growth the site merged
with Aaron Swartz’s infogami in november
2005 with both businesses operating
under the umbrella firm not a bug
the following year saw reddits
popularity grow and a reported twenty
million dollar acquisition by publishers
Conde Nast in October 2006
which saw the company moved to San
Francisco
number eight how has reddit grown a
heavyweight in its field today reddit
was by no means the first of its kind
and has had to face off against many
similar companies during its existence
most notably Digg launched over six
months before reddit in December 2004
did allowed users an inherently similar
experience to that offered by Reddit one
could dig or bury user-generated content
in order to view the trendiest most
talked-about material on the web however
following reddit’s Conde Nast
acquisition the fortunes of both
companies began to drift to separate
ends of the spectrum while reddit
steadily progressed Digg announced an
extensive site overhaul in 2010 which
would eventually prove to be its
downfall and read its gain digs new
looks suffered glitches galore prompting
a massive migration from its site to
reddit’s by September 2011 reddit was
able to become operationally independent
of Conde Nast as it looked to grow even
bigger by itself the site was given a
massive financial boost in September
2014 after it secured 50 million dollars
in funding gathered from a flurry of
investors which included the likes of
actor musician Jared Leto and hip-hop
superstar Snoop Dogg number 7 what are
sub reddits subreddits are used to split
up and sort out the masses of
information that passed through reddit a
subreddit is essentially a specialist
section of the website dedicated to a
particular topic we’re all related user
generated media is posted subreddits
exists for all manner of subjects from
fitness to philosophy sports to space
travel the free nature of reddit means
that there also exists sub reddits that
many users might find offensive relying
prejudiced views within a public sphere
in July 2015 the subreddit system was
actively used against reddit itself in a
form of protest dubbed a mageddon site
users experienced an effective blackout
on July 2nd as moderators for many of
the most popular subreddit communities
altered their settings to private a move
made in response to the firing of
Victoria Taylor who had been a leading
figure behind the ever-popular AMA s
number six what are a maze my dad is the
diva ask me anything
yeah I’ll go dickless for Michael
Chiklis asked me almost anything yeah
what is that AMAs okay it’s like an
interview it stands for asking me any
time wrong new users on reddit will
immediately notice the site’s extensive
use of acronyms with am a being arguably
its best-known an abbreviation of the
phrase ask me anything a mas are a
feature of the highly popular subreddit
I am on where users open themselves up
to questions from other users in a form
of online press conferencing a popular
part of the reddit experience for
anybody regardless of their background
AMAs have received heightened attention
following various high-profile uses of
the feature by famous names within the
worlds of film music sport business and
politics even US President Barack Obama
hosted an AMA session during his
presidential campaign in 2012 Obama
answered questions on the space program
and the issue of Internet freedom in
particular during a 30-minute stint that
more than doubled the site’s usual usage
levels number five who monitors the site
reddit prides itself on being a vessel
for free speech with largely unaltered
and uncensored user to user interaction
happening every minute of every day in
keeping with this line of thought the
site is governed and moderated by just
about anybody who’s prepared to do so
each section or subreddit of the site
has been set up and is watched over by a
moderator a moderator can be anybody who
cares enough about the subject at hand
and is able to manage its particular
forum this approach has perhaps
inevitably led to many controversial
situations where inappropriate offensive
and occasionally illegal material linked
to racism homophobia and child
pornography among other things has made
its way onto the site however for all
the bad
those behind reddit itself believed that
the majority of the site’s content has
had a positive effect upon the internet
and the lives of its users the AMAs
being one of reddit’s foremost examples
of how the site can constructively help
and entertain number four who is Ellen
Powell a relatively new figure within
reddit’s history Ellen Pao joined the
company in 2013 and became CEO after the
resignation of you Shaun Wong in
November 2014 just two months after the
fifteen million dollar investment deal
had been made by July 2015 however
Powell had resigned from her position
quote by mutual agreement ending an
especially controversial tenure Pal
first came under fire following her
banning of five subreddit communities
including a group titled fat people hate
because they’ve been used as quote
platforms to harass individuals the user
backlash branded Powell as a
totalitarian an example of everything
that reddit is against because comments
regarding how herself gradually got
deleted off the site as well
and following the after mentioned
dismissal of Victoria Taylor a two
hundred thousand signatures strong
petition was made calling for Powell’s
resignation after only eight months in
the role the Princeton and Harvard
graduates stepped aside on July 10th
2015
however co-founder Alexis Ohanian
eventually announced that it had been
his decision to change how the AMAs
functioned and knock cows leaving many
redditors fuming and calling for his
resignation
number three what are some of the
benefits of reddit for all the problems
surrounding reddit however there are and
have been massive benefits to be had
because of the site a pioneer in terms
of web-based philanthropy there are
instances aplenty in which the reddit
community has rallied together for a
worthy cause the site’s philanthropic
efforts include an annual Secret Santa
program which has become the world’s
largest with over 200,000 people
participating in 2014 an early 2014
announcement that reddit would be
donating 10% of its advertising revenue
to nonprofit organizations voted for by
its users and the site’s various
attempts at creating a crowd funded
millionaire simply by asking its users
to donate $1 it’s in instances such as
these that the site’s community spirit
can showcase its better more immediately
endearing side number two how is reddit
changing recent events have clearly
pushed and pulled reddit into a
well-publicized period of change and
transition Ellen Powell has left the
company and has been replaced as CEO by
one half of the website’s founding
partnership Steve Huffman but the
questions surrounding what should and
shouldn’t be viewable on the site remain
in a recent rethink of their site rules
Huffman announced that hateful content
will remain accessible but only to those
who actively login to the website and
search for the material meaning that
potentially offensive posts will no
longer appear in public searches in a
less hardline approach to the matter
than that instigated by Powell Huffman
has underlined reddit stance saying that
the site quote believes there is value
in letting all views exist even if we
find some of them a pourraient however
Huffman has also warned quote if the
hateful users continue to spill out into
the mainstream reddit we will try more
aggressive approaches number one will
this affect how reddit functions
the more cynical critics might suggest
that recent events will lead to reddit’s
all but inevitable tightening up in
terms of the content that
and isn’t allowed however those working
for the website and those who remain
supportive of it surely hope that the
departure of Pao and the diplomacy of
Huffman will result in a compromise that
can placate all parties the changes
regarding what is accessible to those
that aren’t logged into reddit are
unlikely to curb the publication of
offensive material within the community
itself however they should prevent the
more casual user from coming into
contact with it and in the future could
help rien
with a little more positivity for the
general public with these facts make
your front page to vote for which news
story is covered next
head over to watchmojo.com slash the
jest and be sure to hit that subscribe
button for more newsworthy top 10s
published every week
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