Friday, October 11, 2013

The day of games is nigh - ExtraLife marathon

Posted by Jason Harvey [alienth] at 10:07
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Note: For further information regarding the marathon, please see the original announcement post and the associated /r/blog thread.

Only three weeks till game day! On November 2nd, over 550 of us will be participating in a 25-hour gaming marathon to raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Last year members of team reddit raised over $78k for their local hospitals. We've already raised over $17k this year. Come join the team and help us hit our goal of $100,000.

Fellow team members, please be sure to stop by /r/ExtraLife to organize and chat.


T-Shirt!

The folks at redditgifts have put together an awesome ExtraLife t-shirt (design pictured) for team reddit. $5 from every team reddit t-shirt purchase will be donated to ExtraLife. The shirt will be on sale starting today until November 4th. Shipping starts November 18th.

Prizes!

As a thank you for participating, any ExtraLife team reddit member raising over $100 will receive two free months of reddit gold. Additionally, any member raising over $300 will get a free ExtraLife team reddit t-shirt. Redemption codes for the shirt and gold will be sent out on November 14th.

How To Donate

To donate simply choose a player from the team roster and click "Support Me!". Each member gets to choose which hospital to raise money for, so if you are interested in a particular hospital, you can probably find someone who has selected it. Donations are tax deductible and all proceeds go directly towards the treatment of kids at the hospitals.

Further Info


Monday, October 07, 2013

Another Update on Gold

Posted by yishan at 14:56
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Dear everyone,

We’d like to thank everyone who’s been buying gold or gilding comments, and thought we’d share some interesting stats on where some of that gold goes.  The following are some stats we pulled on gilding activity over the past 6 months:

Most gilded subreddits:

(These links will take you to the “gilded” tab in each subreddit, showing you the gilded comments therein)



Sent to us via postcard.  You could send one in too.


Most gilded small subreddits (at least 500+ subscribers, sorted by gildings-per-subscriber ratio):



Secret pro-tip in the middle of this post - you can see a feed of all gilded comments here!  But back to...

Most highly-gilded threads:




















Another postcard gem.
Note: Asking for gold is rarely the best way to get it.
Most highly-gilded comments (you'll want to read these):


99trumpets on Explosion at Boston?
More trivia: the most total gilding done by a single user over the past 6 months is 144 months of gold (that’s 5.6 gilds per week, so we’re pretty impressed), followed by 120 months for second place.  We’d tell you who they are, but unless otherwise notified, we assume that such beneficent benefactors desire to remain anonymous.
'How it Feels to get gifted gold' by /u/Half-Maus

 And as an ongoing thanks for your support of reddit, we have three new gold benefits to announce:

Homejoy - cleaning your place.  Four months of discounted cleaning at $15/hour up to 20 hours/month with no charge for cleaning supplies.

UberConference - easy and better conference calls, with visuals.  We use this here at reddit, and like it a lot!  You get three free months of UberConference pro, which includes international dial-in numbers for 50 countries.

United Parcel Service (UPS) - 3 months free of MyChoice Premium, which allows you to tell them when you want your packages delivered to your house.  No more missed packages!

You can subscribe to any discussions about new and existing gold benefits at /r/goldbenefits.  If your interest is piqued consider buying yourself or someone you love reddit gold.

Lastly, thanks to you, our loyal gold users for supporting reddit with your gold subscriptions!  You’re helping to reduce our dependence on ads and make reddit community-supported!





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