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In yet another announcement addressed to the wider Reddit community, new CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman, also known as /u/spez, will host an AMA on Thursday to present an institutionalized Content Policy for users. Huffman wrote: Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where…
Yesterday, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of Reddit. Co-founder Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao’s resignation came after a week of heightened tension at the company and on the site, but her tenure had been fraught with controversy and backlash from the sites users since it began. May 2012 – Pao files lawsuit…
Victoria Taylor is not someone who many people will have heard about prior to Thursday 2 July, yet she has worked closely with everyone from Barack Obama and Bill Murray to Snoop Dogg, along with hundreds of others, as part of her job at the so-called “front page of the internet” Reddit. In the space…
Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them fail because of it. Some of the worst trolls on the Internet are celebrating victory, as embattled interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao stepped down yesterday after what can charitably be described as…
Earlier today, I took my children to my great-grandparents’ grave in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. They don’t have a big headstone, or a nice spot. But they have a big place in my heart: He came to Canada from Barbados, she from Jamaica, and he built two(!) houses for their extended family. They sent their…
After a week of revolt and months of protesting, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of one of the largest digital communities in the world. Reddit users, of course, were thrilled to find that Pao (aka user/ekjp) was leaving, and celebrated the return of long-time redditor (and sometimes critic of the company) Steve Huffman, aka user/spez, as…
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For many people, this is…
As the ongoing Podcast Renaissance invigorates audio storytelling—you may have heard about a little program called Serial—social news site Reddit is grabbing a piece of the action to better share its most popular stories with a mobile audience. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently announced a new endeavor: Upvoted, the official Reddit podcast that digs deeper…
“https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/upvoted/id954162809”> src= “http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/upvoted-750×393.png” alt=”upvoted” width=”750″ height=”393″/> “https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/upvoted/id954162809”>Upvoted is a new podcast by reddit that focuses on the people and stories behind the links that make it to the site’s front page. The “https://soundcloud.com/upvoted/episode-0-the-story-of-uyoungluck-dante-orpilla”> first episode of the show focuses on reddit user Dante Orpilla, his story of redemption, and how he came to work at reddit….