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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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Reddit Users data charts

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Let's hear it for the lurkers! The vast majority of Reddit users don't post or comment.

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Reddit Data of One of Reddit's Most (In)famous 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!

Reddit users infographics

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Reddit user response to Beto O'Rourke's comments during 9/19/2019 AMA


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Distribution of Post Karma over Top 100K Reddit Users in December 2017


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Reddit's admins can edit ANY user's comment history.

A Large amount of Reddit users do not know what theft is...

Reddit user /u/DigitalizedOrange created a cryptocurrency and two days later it was established on a cryptocurrency exchange market.

A Russian Reddit user got Reddit banned in Russia by posting a tutorial to grown mushrooms.

A Reddit user once said: "Quotes in TIL make no sense and are fucking stupid. Shame on you"

Reddit user /u/OneCommentDec5th. Only appears once per year on Dec 5th (today!) to leave a single comment. Yet they've gotten more karma/gold than most people I know.

Reddit is the 29th most popular website with around 174 million users.

Reddit user base is not as gender skewed as I had thought

About seven-in-ten (71%) of Reddit news users are men

Since SJWs took over Reddit Administration and Moderation the site has lost 2/3 of its user base. The Board of Directors must be pissed.

Reddit Users Don't Get Karma For Self-Posts

When Reddit and 4Chan users voted for Taylor Swift to perform at a school for deaf students as a prank, the school was removed from the contest, but Swift donated $10K to the school, 4 companies matched her donation for a total $50K, and VH1’s Save the Music program added $10k in instruments.

Greenpeace once held an online poll to name a humpback whale they were tracking. Users of sites like Reddit, 4chan, Digg and Facebook flocked to vote in large numbers, and as a result the whale was named "Mister Splashy Pants."

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