Reddit Posts facts

While investigating facts about Reddit Posts, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Sears used its influence over Reddit to get a post removed that showed how to manipulate the sites interface

Many pro Israel Reddit comments are posted by people paid to spread propaganda.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 43 of the best facts about Reddit Posts I managed to collect.

1. Reddit is able to claim legal immunity from what its users post based on a ruling concerning the Star Trek: DS9 actress who played Leeta

2. Comment threads only became available on Reddit after three years, when a random Redditor 'hacked' the interface by linking to his own post, creating the first Self Post.

3. This company is getting sued per Reddit and this video.. I know because I got a subpoena for posting it

4. Reddit's founders posted content under lots of fake usernames during the early days to attract investors and new users

5. Reddit wants to suspend me, because I posted this link

6. Reddit will shadowban this post INFO WARS DOT COM BABABOOEY BABABOOEY HOWARD STERNS PENIS BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST

7. In the earliest days of Reddit, the founders created hundreds of 'fake users' to post their content, so the site looked busy until real users started filling it up. When they posted, they had 'URL', 'title', and an extra text field for 'user'.

8. You (or corporations) can manipulate votes on posts in Reddit and people have been banned for revealing it in the past.

9. Within a 17 day period 52% of the front page posts on Reddit were actually reposts whereas the remaining 48% were original or reposts that fell outside of the given time frame

10. Youtubers are now making money from Reddit Posts.

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The Reddit joke where a serious comment on a post not marked [Serious] that ends with some version of “it turned out they were a large monster and asked for tree-fity” comes from the South Park episode called, “The Succubus.”

People are over 10x more likely to upvote a post on Reddit, if there's wholesome comments, in the comment section. The vibe of the comments determins greatly whether people leave the post enjoying themselves or not, especially if there's comments commented with a great deal of effort. - source

I'm a meme in Russia - this channel takes popular English Reddit posts, translates them to Russian, and makes videos narrating them, including this one of an AMA I did several years ago - source

In the earliest days of Reddit, the founders created hundreds of 'fake users' to post their content, so the site looked busy until real users started filling it up. In an online training video, Steve Huffman said the creators had 3 text boxes when they posted content - URL, Title and Username.

a short movie is made behind the "today you, tomorrow me" reddit post - source

reddit will hide downvote button from a specific user's post or comment if you continuously downvote posts of an individual user(maybe limit is 28 including post and comments) and also disable you to upvote his/her posts or comments. ""NOTE: Ignore link""

A motivational talk from Eric Thomas. Btw, it is my first time on Reddit. I am very sorry if I post at the wrong session. Any guidance? Thank you!

The Pareto principal that dictates that 80% of the upvotes on Reddit are on 20% of the posts.

Reddit deleted all their backups of the stonetear posts Four Days After receiving the congressional Subpoena.

52% of the posts on Reddits front page are reposts

Rapper Froggy Fresh, formerly known as Krispy Kreme, was threatened with legal action from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and was forced to change his name after his popularity surged, in part due to highly visible posts on Reddit.

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