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In fear of more user protests, Reddit announces controversial policy change
Moderators now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW.
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Man notices ancient human jawbone embedded in parents' tile floor
A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.
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Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
How and why did a hawkish young mandarin hothoused at elite universities and in the halls of state power end up an executive at an anarchic messageboard site with an anti-establishment reputation?
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Reddit mentions may help predict changes in cryptocurrency value
Traders could have earned a threefold return on their investments by analysing trends in cryptocurrency forums on Reddit
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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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Reddit Tells Protesting Mods It Will Remove Them If They Don’t Stop, As Reddit’s Subreddit For The Blind Can No Longer Be Moderated By Blind Users
Meanwhile, now that the API changes have been put in place, and a bunch of tools have had to shut down, moderators for the /r/blind subreddit announced that their blind mods can no longer moderate the sub.
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Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
Reddit isn't profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform's API
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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
Many communities on Reddit have used the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) designation in some form to protest Reddit’s new API pricing, which forced apps like Apollo and rif is fun for Reddit to shut down, as well as a recent pattern of behavior toward its unpaid volunteer moderators that they find “threatening.” Subreddits, including r/PICS and r/military, had made the NSFW switch, pointing to language from Reddit websites to justify the change.
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Reddit braces for life after API changes
Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.
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How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.
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Reddit Threatens Subs to Go Public Again, or Else...
The site is handing out Thursday deadlines for reopening as key metrics take a hit.
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A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform
A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company's controversial API changes..
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Reddit says accessibility upgrades for moderators are coming to its mobile apps soon
Reddit will make “accessibility improvements” to many moderator tools in its official mobile apps by July 1st, the company announced on Friday. Some moderators rely on third-party apps because Reddit’s apps have what they characterize as “significant accessibility challenges,” and the accessibility community has expressed concerns over how they will moderate on mobile after popular apps like Apollo shut down on June 30th due to potentially expensive API pricing changes.
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Reddit still has to contend with a 'simmering rage' as users return back to the platform
A Reddit moderator shared his lingering frustrations with The New York Times after a protest of changes to how Reddit prices its API.
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Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW
Reddit’s ongoing war with its volunteer moderators (and users) has moved up a notch. As you’ll recall, last week, the ever tone-deaf CEO Steve Huffman insisted that the protests were just a blip, w…
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Reddit starts removing moderators behind the latest protests
r/MildlyInteresting lost its mods.
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Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes. In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a February breach of the company’s systems.
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Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users
Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. He got free content and free app development work and now he’s going around whining about how “we’re not in the business of giving that away for free.”
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Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
Reddit is trying to turn mods against mods.
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What Reddit Got Wrong
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community.
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