History Trivia / Reddit

** The reddit community as a whole isn't too proud of the Boston Bomber Witchhunt, in which the community tried to determine the bomber's identity and accused an innocent person who was later found dead (likely for unrelated reasons, but the Internet campaign definitely wasn't helping his grieving family). It's often brought up as a cautionary tale whenever it looks like the site's gearing up for another round of Internet Detective.

** [[http://reddit.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wikipedia_of_Reddit This Joke wiki]]

** [[https://reddit.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wikipedia_of_Reddit The Reddit Wiki]]

** Likewise, redditors have been more wary about taking advice from /r/relationship_advice (which is accused of being made of folks projecting their frustration about never having experienced a healthy romantic relationship) due to numerous members of the community suggesting to a redditor that he should divorce his unfaithful wife, which ended with her ''murdering their children'' to keep him from taking custody of them. While not ''all'' the fault is on the redditors that suggested divorce, the incident just provided more evidence as to why you shouldn't listen to a random anonymous user on the Internet and that the Internet is structured in a way where you can't foresee all of the consequences of what you say online.

** The reddit community as a whole isn't too proud of the Boston Bomber Witchhunt, in which the community tried to determine the bomber's identity and accused an innocent person, who was later found dead (believed to be for unrelated reasons, but the Internet campaign definitely wasn't helping his grieving family). It's often brought up as a cautionary tale whenever it looks like reddit's gearing up for another round of playing Internet Detective.
** Likewise, redditors have been more wary about taking advice from /r/relationship_advice (which is nowadays accused of being made of folks projecting their frustration about never having experienced a healthy romantic relationship themselves) due to numerous members of the community suggesting (some aggressively) to a redditor that he should divorce his unfaithful wife, which ended with her ''murdering their children'' to keep him from taking custody of them. Though obviously not all the fault is on the redditors that suggested divorced, the incident just provides more evidence as to why you shouldn't listen to just anyone on the Internet and that the Internet is structured in a way where you can't foresee all of the consequences of what you say online.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20161208214855/http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tried-to-acquire-reddit-in-2005-2016-11 Google attempted to acquire Reddit]] back in the site's early days in 2005. According to [[https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing u/kn0thing]]: "We weren't big enough to justify a YouTube-style acquisition, where you do your own thing and have your own little world to operate. We were two dudes in an apartment: Do we want to become Google employees? As amazing as those perks were in 2005 - Google was the place to work - it wasn't something we wanted to do quite yet."

** Likewise, redditors have been more wary about taking advice from /r/relationships (which is nowadays accused of being made of folks projecting their frustration about never having experienced a healthy romantic relationship themselves) due to numerous members of the community suggesting (some aggressively) to a redditor that he should divorce his unfaithful wife, which ended with her ''murdering their children'' to keep him from taking custody of them. Though obviously not all the fault is on the redditors that suggested divorced, the incident just provides more evidence as to why you shouldn't listen to just anyone on the Internet and that the Internet is structured in a way where you can't foresee all of the consequences of what you say online.

* AscendedMeme: The r/politics meme/RunningGag about Donald Trump donating to NAMBLA (created as an "incitement" to get Trump to release his tax returns) was eventually covered by major news outlets such as [[http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/many-people-are-saying-donald-trump-donated-to-nambla.html New York Magazine]].

** Reddit's management have tried to distance themselves from violentacrez as much as possible since the r/creepshots debacle, despite giving him a "pimp hat" award in the past.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://reddit.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wikipedia_of_Reddit This wiki]]
** Trusted users can write on the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/th1zo/moderators_new_feature_preview_integrated_wiki/ Integrated wiki]].

* TheWikiRule: Trusted users can write on the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/th1zo/moderators_new_feature_preview_integrated_wiki/ Integrated wiki]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tried-to-acquire-reddit-in-2005-2016-11 Google attempted to acquire Reddit]] back in the site's early days in 2005. According to [[https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing u/kn0thing]]: "We weren't big enough to justify a YouTube-style acquisition, where you do your own thing and have your own little world to operate. We were two dudes in an apartment: Do we want to become Google employees? As amazing as those perks were in 2005 - Google was the place to work - it wasn't something we wanted to do quite yet."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tried-to-acquire-reddit-in-2005-2016-11 Google attempted to acquire Reddit]] back in the site's early days in 2005. acoording to u/kn0thing: "We weren't big enough to justify a YouTube-style acquisition, where you do your own thing and have your own little world to operate. We were two dudes in an apartment: Do we want to become Google employees? As amazing as those perks were in 2005 - Google was the place to work - it wasn't something we wanted to do quite yet."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tried-to-acquire-reddit-in-2005-2016-11 Google attempted to acquire Reddit]] back in the site's early days in 2005
acoording to u/kn0thing: "We weren't big enough to justify a YouTube-style acquisition, where you do your own thing and have your own little world to operate. We were two dudes in an apartment: Do we want to become Google employees? As amazing as those perks were in 2005 - Google was the place to work - it wasn't something we wanted to do quite yet."

* TheWikiRule: Trusted users can write on the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/th1zo/moderators_new_feature_preview_integrated_wiki/ Integrated wiki]].

* OldShame: Reddit's management have tried to distance themselves from violentacrez as much as possible since the r/creepshots debacle, despite giving him a "pimp hat" award in the past.

* ColbertBump: If a website is linked in a popular thread or comment, an inadvertent [=DDoS=] can be triggered, taking down the site. This is humorously called the "Reddit hug of death".

* InternetCounterattack:
** Has perpetrated quite a few of these. Reddit had to [[http://blog.reddit.com/2011/05/reddit-we-need-to-talk.html forbid posting personal information on the site]].
** One of the most infamous such counterattacks was when SomethingAwful released a "Redditbomb". Said bomb exposed the mods and site management being too cowardly to shut down some subreddits that were distributing '''child porn'''. Something similar later happened with r/creepshots on {{Tumblr}}, which exposed the personal information of various creepshot posters.
** Reddit was also a catalyst for the SOPA/PIPA protests.

** One of the most infamous such counterattacks was when SomethingAwful released a "Redditbomb". Said bomb exposed the mods and site management being too cowardly to shut down some subreddits that were distributing '''child porn'''. Something similar later happened with r/creepshots on {{Tumblr}} that exposed the personal information of various creepshot posters.

** The most awesomely heartwarming of such counterattacks was when SomethingAwful released a "Redditbomb". Said bomb contained three core facts: Reddits contained '''child porn''', the higher-ups defended the moderators of '''child porn''' sub-reddits, and that the upper elechons of the site tried to defend said child porn. It took '''multiple''' Redditbombs for the site to [[http://gawker.com/5884619/reddit-reluctantly-bans-child-porn reluctantly ban child porn.]] fnord.
** A counter-offensive against r/creepshots (taking lewd photographs of attractive women without their knowledge) on {{Tumblr}} that exposed the personal information of various creepshot posters.

* TheWikiRule:
** Trusted users can write on the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/th1zo/moderators_new_feature_preview_integrated_wiki/ Integrated wiki]].

* OldShame: Reddit's management have tried to distance themselves from violentacrez as much as possible since the r/creepshots debacle, despite giving him a "pimp hat" award in the past.

* OldShame: Reddit's management has tried to distance themselves from violentacrez as much as possible since the r/creepshots debacle, despite giving him a "pimp hat" award in the past.