noteworthy events in reddit history
The reddit community has been involved in doing some rather noteworthy (and often good) things. Take note of them here. Please contribute.
2007
2008
* Helped pets get adopted from the SF SPCA
* Raised over $3000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
2009
* Shutting down auto-warranty robo callers
* Reunited son and his mother after 21 years
* Raised hundreds of dollars to send two redditors around the country for a month
* Enhanced surveillance footage to help a redditor identify the murderer of his friend's father
* FEEDaNEED - Online "Skill-raiser" where geeks donate their skills to non-profits they've voted on
* Helped out a redditor's failing soap business by buying a huge amount of soap from them
* The Cuil is born
* Trolling RE/MAX for their frivolous lawsuit
* Sending Helen Thomas flowers
* Outing Pepsi designers as 'breathtakingly' up their own asses
* Helps save Dusty the cat
* Sends a crowbar to CERN, saves world from headcrabs
* Hearing aid money donation
* Donating books to redditor's new classroom
* Epic thread (100 push-ups)
* reddit scores interview with Mythbusters' Adam Savage
* reddit scores interview with Senate hopeful Peter Schiff
* reddit writes an episode of Family Guy
* Takes in a homeless guy, even though it doesn't work out
* reddit assists P-Dub's mom
* redditors give inthebackofyourhead christmas gifts, and fix his car
* redditors draw castle attacking karate-frogs for miles_danish
* redditors hold the largest secret santa the world has ever seen
* Dpressd thanks redditors for helping her solve a medical problem
* On October 27, 2009, reddit serves as the beginning of CSTART, an open source, community-driven project to send a redditor to the moon!
* Radio Reddit is born, broadcasting the music of Reddit artists and bands.
2010
* reddit played a large role in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity.
* In a related event, reddit raised over $500,000 for DonorsChoose.org.
* Wikipedia sez:
* In early December of 2010, the members of the Christianity subreddit and the atheism subreddit came together to cross-promote[33] fundraising drives for World Vision's Clean Water Fund and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), respectively. Later, the Islam subreddit joined in, raising money for Islamic Relief. In less than a week, the three communities (as well as the reddit community at-large) raised over $45,000 for charity.
* In early October 2010, a story was posted on reddit about a seven-year-old girl, Kathleen Edwards, who was in the advanced stages of Huntington’s disease. The girl's neighbors were taunting her and her family. redditors bound together and gave the girl a shopping spree.
* reddit started a suicide prevention community.
* reddit started the largest secret Santa program in the world.
* reddit users donated $185,356.70 to Direct Relief International for Haiti after the earthquake devastated the island in January, 2010.
2011
* An anonymous Redditor exposed The Elan School, an abusive boarding school in Maine, which was then shut down
* Over $150,000 donated to DonorsChoose.org
* Girl with Huntington's given shopping spree
* jmk4422 gets a job
* Redditor bails someone out of jail
* The follow up to a promise. Operation "Re-Stock Granny."
* Helped a 15 year old girl with her bucket list
* redditors built a girl her own TARDIS after hers was stolen
* Gather over $3k to send to a fellow gamer
* reddit helped donate over $185,000 to Haiti relief
* r/starcraft raised over $30k for Doctors Without Borders in a single day
* A stranger buys a guy a new computer screen
* Both on reddit and another website made by the family, reddit helped donate more than 35k dollars to Lucas and his family for his operation.
2012
* reddit participated in a black out in protest of SOPA and PROTECT IP. In response to the blackout the support for these bills in Congress and the Senate dropped.
* reddit helped raise over $50,000 for the education and protection of orphans in Kenya