Reddit Users facts

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

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

A 16-year-old Reddit User Helped a NASCAR Racer Land a Sponsor

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 36 of the best facts about Reddit Users I managed to collect.

1. Most popular social networks ranking by active registered users. Historical data chart of top social networks from 2003 to 2019. Some dating networks and apps are included. Communities as Reddit and YouTube also. Data source press releases, wikipedia, industry reports, statista, similar web.

2. 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.

3. 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'.

4. R/place was a Reddit April Fools' gag and awesome social experiment, where users collaborated as factions to create (more commonly than to simply destroy) on a massively-multi-user pixel canvas where users could only place a single pixel once every 5 to 20 minutes.

5. Reddit was saved by it's user with Reddit gold in 2010. The stunt was made possible by employees who got tired of the hiring freeze by Conde Nast and begged it's user for help without them knowing pulling in 6 figures over a weekend.

6. 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""

7. Reddit used to position itself as user-led and its mods did a blackout against SOPA in 2012

8. Reddit is lying about their "Coins" policy, manipulating their users to buy more coins.

9. According To A Poll Conducted By Harvard University, Over 80% Of Reddit Users Only Read Titles

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

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Nancy Grace has described Reddit users as "autistic basement-dwellers that need to be euthanized"

Reddit Plans Its Own Cryptocurrency To Give Back To Its Users After $50 Million Raise - source

Ellen Pao Resigns as Reddit Interim CEO After User Revolt - Bloomberg Business - source

Reddit users really do not like fat people

The CEO of Reddit can edit user's comments without their knowledge or permission. - source

A Reddit User Offered To Pay For $7,000 Of Dental Work For A Man (fellow Redditor) Living “In Constant Pain”.

Reddit's new privacy policy will allow them to sell users personal information to advertisers

The third oldest Reddit user currently tracked on karmalb is u/third.

Reddit Hired Victoria Taylor from the Reddit community to handle AMAs. Before that she was helping with AMAs as a regular user.

Feedback from Reddit users encouraged /u/Shitty_Watercolour (Van Rensburg) to pursue painting, and since he has been commissioned by Intel, Lionsgate, ASUS, CNN, USA Network, BuzzFeed, and Prizeo to paint. His work has been compared with that of artist/author Quentin Blake.

Reddit is fighting tooth and nail to protect its User's IP Address from Atlantic Records. Go Reddit!

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