[mindcrime]

Weird... I am guessing that if Obama was going to be on Reddit, they would have given the Reddit staff some early notice, in order to add some extra preparations for the load. Or maybe not, does anybody know if there's any sort of normal protocol around this sort of thing?

[citricsquid]

The AMA mods often arrange high profile AMAs amongst themselves -- or with the reddit community staff involved -- so it's likely they were aware before hand. I can't check the sidebar because reddit isn't responding, but they normally have the "upcoming" AMAs in the sidebar and lots of are listed days/weeks in advance.

[duck]

I think this was a surprise as it wasn't listed there until 30 or so minutes ago.

[ChiperSoft]

The reddit admins knew. Heuypriest himself confirmed the validity of the AMA.

[_delirium]

Since I'm not up on the Reddit staff, in case anyone else is wondering, Hueypriest is Erik Martin, Reddit's General Manager (formerly Community manager) https://www.twitter.com/hueypriest

[acomar]

Kn0thing jumped in to confirm it too.