Monday, February 5, 2007

Reddit Trivia One

1. http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/ was the first link submitted to Reddit. It got a total of four comments.
2. There were no comments on reddit for the first few months.
3. A poll against Bush got the maximum votes on reddit. Ever. (1720). This was an obvious karma whoring.
4. There is a reddiquite page. Have you read it yet? (All reddit help)
5. There is a reddit store. Have you bought anything yet?
6. Kam0 is the user with maximum overall karma
7. Reddit used to store passwords in cleartext, instead of hashing it. Not now. After they lost the password.
8. Reddit had an overly agressive user agreements. Everybody who read it got pissed. Spez, an admin had to say that the policy was bulshit before people cooled down.
9. Reddit's first user was kn0thing
10. Reddit currently has more than 1,800,000 (around two million) links in the system. How do I know this? Check the www.reddit.com page. Bring your mouse over the save/hide link and check the status bar. The id for current highest link is 1812514, and all ids in the between exist.
Id for the oldest link is 7. Do the maths.

And now, a bonus for reading till the end. (From store)

2 comments:

alexis [kn0thing] said...

First user and cofounder with Steve (spez) Huffman ;-)

I had an unfair advantage, so being the "first user" probably isn't fair to our real first user... whoever that is...

shabda said...

Hi knothing. Ya, both you and spez were the first, but the first submission was by you, so I believe it was you.
And since comments were closed for the first few months, we cant tell for sure who actual first use was, can you?