Sarah Gilbert spends a lot of time on Reddit. For the past three years, she's helped moderate the r/AskHistorians subreddit, which has 2 million members and was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation.

That’s according to andrewsmith1986, a power user who’s been upvoted to a special place in Reddit’s strata, where karma—a form of Internet points on the social news site used to score users’ ...

Jeremiah Johnson says he has “an embarrassing amount” of Reddit karma. So, as a longtime moderator of subreddits like r/economics, he was part of a select group of power users who were granted first ...

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In 2021, Reddit’s first IPO attempt fizzled, but now it’s ready to try again by riding the wave of generative AI hype. After Reddit changed the terms of agreements for access to its API last year, ...

Reddit has grown into a complex ecosystem where users compete for attention, credibility, and influence. At the center of this system are power users who understand how to navigate Reddit karma ...

Reddit’s users are rebelling. Thousands of forums on the popular social media platform have gone private or read-only in order to protest how the company is treating its users. The protest started ...