The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

Company

Reddit, Inc.

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-3.12: Reddit's content policy captured on 11 September 2015 lists quarantining and banning of communities among its enforcement options and states that Reddit does not prescribe moderators' use of its tools, and on 29 June 2020 Reddit announced that it was banning about 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse. A peer-reviewed study found that quarantining r/TheRedPill and r/The_Donald cut new-user influx by 79.5% and 58% while existing users' misogyny and racism did not change.
  • INF-3.13: Reddit stated on 9 June 2023 that it would charge $0.24 per 1,000 API calls above free limits from 1 July 2023. Its Form S-1 of 22 February 2024 states that in June 2023 moderators of certain communities inhibited normal operations, in many cases in violation of site-wide rules, and that this has not historically had a material impact.
  • INF-3.14: Reddit reports that from July to December 2023 moderators removed 1.9% and admins 1.8% of all content created, and that admins banned 640,685 communities: 456,849 (71%) for spam and 183,836 for non-spam violations, 92% of the non-spam bans because the community was unmoderated. Reddit's Form S-1 reports an average of over 60,000 daily active volunteer moderators in December 2023, and a peer study of 126 subreddits found that invisible work is a median 43% of human moderator labor.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 1051 14 May 2015. Reddit, Inc.: Promote ideas, protect people (Reddit blog)
  • Exhibit 1052 archive capture 11 September 2015. Reddit, Inc.: Reddit Content Policy (archive capture of 11 September 2015)
  • Exhibit 1053 29 June 2020. Reddit, Inc. (post by the company's chief executive account): Update to Our Content Policy (r/announcements)
  • Exhibit 1054 9 June 2023. Reddit, Inc. (post by the company's chief executive account): Addressing the community about changes to our API (r/reddit)
  • Exhibit 1055 22 February 2024. Reddit, Inc.: Reddit, Inc. Form S-1 registration statement (risk factors and business description)
  • Exhibit 1056 April 2024 (report period July-December 2023). Reddit, Inc.: Transparency Report: July to December 2023
  • Exhibit 1057 2022. Li, Hecht and Chancellor (arXiv 2205.14529; published at ICWSM 2022 per the authors' listing, venue to be confirmed): All That's Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit
  • Exhibit 1058 2020. Chandrasekharan, Jhaver, Bruckman and Gilbert (arXiv 2009.11483; ACM CSCW 2020 per the authors' listing, venue to be confirmed): Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit
  • Exhibit 1059 2017. Chandrasekharan, Pavalanathan, Srinivasan, Glynn, Eisenstein and Gilbert, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1(CSCW): You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech
  • Exhibit 1060 collected 6 February 2024; computed 10 November 2026. Dataset by A. Mayor (GitHub almayor/reddit-mods-dataset); computation by the Lacuna Project: RedditMods: moderators of the 25,814 largest subreddits (public dataset, collected 6 February 2024), and overlap computation