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- The correct title of this article is reddit. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
reddit is a community web site where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page.
The site also has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted links. Users may also vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can cause it to be shown through a link. Users who submit articles which are liked and subsequently voted up receive "karma", points which a user receives as a reward for submitting interesting articles.
Reddit also includes several topical sections called subreddits, which focus on specific topics, including programming.reddit and science.reddit.
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[edit] History
Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, and received its initial funding from Y Combinator. The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in the fall of 2005. Aaron Swartz joined in late January 2006 as part of the company's merger with Swartz's Infogami.[1] The combined company is known as not a bug. Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired magazine, acquired reddit on 31 October 2006.[2]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ http://infogami.com/blog/introduction
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwired-acquires-reddit/
[edit] External links
- Think you've reddit all? - Blog of the reddit team.
- Interview with Reddit - Interview with Steve Huffman, cofounder of Reddit.
- Interview with Reddit - Interview with Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit.
- subreddits
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