"written by humans and voted on by humans"
Ars Technica, 26 June 2025. The pledge, from Huffman: Reddit will stay "written by humans and voted on by humans".
Paraphrase of the rest: the bot fight is an arms race with no finish line, and the approach is to establish humanness without requiring real-name identity.
Why it is here: notice that the pledge has two halves. "Written by humans" protects E, the experience term. "Voted on by humans" protects C, the contested term. A site where humans write but bots vote is a site where the ranking is synthetic, which is almost as bad as the text being synthetic. The pledge covers both, which is why this formula has three factors and not one.
About Reddit Inc. $HI is a token on the HI/RDDT pair, not Reddit stock (NYSE: RDDT).
Reddit CEO pledges site will remain written by humans and voted on by humans
“written by humans and voted on by humans”
what it provesThe pledge covers both the E and the C term: authored by people, ranked by people.
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static thread, nothing to reply toWhat it proves: the company has committed publicly to keeping both the authoring and the ranking human. That is E and C, pledged.
This is about the stock, the token is unrelated, correct? Also a pledge is not a result.
Correct. Reddit Inc. policy, unrelated to $HI, which is a token on the HI/RDDT pair and not Reddit stock. And agreed, a pledge is a direction, not a result. We log it because the direction is the thesis.
The voting half gets ignored in every write-up and it is the more important half. Bots writing is detectable. Bots voting is what quietly decides what you read.