25 more days and still no.

At the time, Saydrah was a very active moderator in some of the bigger subreddits (AMA, and pics) and a fairly well known redditor too (80K link karma and equally high comment karma). She was even one of the Calendar Girls of reddit for charity. At lot of her time was spent submitting cute pics to /r/aww , /r/pics, and providing a lot of relationship advise. She was involved in some of the dust ups between /r/MensRights and /r/TwoXChromosomes at the time too.

So, somebody eventually uncovers that Saydrah's works at Associated Content. Associated Content is one of those companies who was worried about quantity over quality. The perceived goal of companies like AC wasn't about generating useful content, it was more about influencing search engine results, and SEO. People made the jump that since Saydrah was both an active redditor and mod in some of the biggest subreddits, she was gaming reddit for profit and abusing her position as a mod. None of this was proved, it was just speculation upon the revelation of what Saydrah did for her day job. The timing of everything couldn't be worse because this all broke on a Friday night, so redditors went from 0-11 on the internet hate scale faster than you can say 1.21 gigawatts. It got ugly, it got personal, and the mob actually ran Saydrah off the net for the night. With nothing else to do but burn and purge via downvote her submissions and comments, the mob turned on the other mods and demanded answers.

The rampage lasted through the weekend when the next day Saydrah tried to do a AMA about the situation, but people were still in the lynch mob/witch hunt mentality so they were still down voting everything she was posting. Eventually, she was removed as a mod from some of the bigger subreddits, and it eventually all blew over, but I still haven't quite seen the vitriol against a mod like I did when the Saydrah storm broke out in 2010. People may say the Karmanaut/Shitty_watercolour debacle was huge, and it was, but I still say the Saydrah incident edges it out. She is still around, just not as active in the bigger subreddits, just ones where she was active in before.

It was revealed by some user (in a possibly over-dramatic way) that Trapped_In_Reddit has been getting so much Karma by simply saying the top comment of the previously reposted image or whatever. So basically if some reposted image from 2 years ago were to make front-page today, Trapped_in_reddit would go back to that 2 year post and post the top comment in the current version. Savvy? Anyway this, for some reason, irritated a lot of people and now he has a downvote brigade following him wherever he posts.

Edit: It seems he actually has an upvote brigade following his posts as well, but it seems to be smaller than the downvote brigade. Did I already say 'brigade'? Brigade!

Comparing the two is intellectually dishonest.

There's a difference between an image hosting website advertising and some guy with a paintbrush linking to his website (as an afterthought) on comments of his that gain a lot of karma and visibility.

I fail to understand how his Tumblr qualifies as interesting content. It's not relevant to the thread it is present in and is shamelessly exploitative.

TIL where jedberg comes from

I had no idea where your username came from.. I always thought it was cool as hell though. Kinda like a juggernaut iceberg.

Is there an external link to every question we have?

How predictable are these questions?

I seem to recall day zero on the graph was the first day that there were lines in the access log rather than the launch day (which is that tiny spike a couple of days after).

Ah... Access.log.... memories...

It's a great, great system for redditors, since its so powerful and simple once you learn it. People new to reddit, though, often have trouble, especially with links and carriage returns. I notice this a lot in /r/IAmA, where many users are starting threads on their first visit to the site.

It's nice to know the 'founder' doesn't know much about WYSIWYG editors. Besides "shiny flash". The markup doesn't even work fully as it is. There's no learning curve steeper than circumventing bad development.

That page is hilarious!

Classic Paul!

Aha - speaking of alts I remember someone guessed the password to reddit user God once and started posting that he'd guessed the password. Now I see it's reverted to "there doesn't seem to be anything here" and God's submissions have also vanished.

Was this one of yours? Or am I nuts enough to have created a false memory of all of this?

Plaid shirts are the fucking bomb.