Reddit’s chief Steve Huffman says he wants it to ‘grow up.’ Will its community let it?

For the past 11 years, Bucky has put time and effort into stewarding and guiding dozens of communities on Reddit, the sprawling internet message board.

As a “moderator” of roughly 80 different topic-based forums, Bucky – who goes by “BuckRowdy” on Reddit and who asked that his full name not be used to prevent online harassment – and others like him are essential to growing and maintaining the social media site, which is one of the internet’s biggest destinations for online discussion.