Steve Sobel (honestbleeps)

Steve Sobel, who uses the handle honestbleeps, is the creator and principal maintainer of Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), a widely used browser extension that adds features and quality-of-life improvements to the Reddit website. The project began as a set of userscripts and grew into one of the most-installed Reddit extensions across Chrome and Firefox. Sobel describes himself as a long-time full-stack engineer based in Chicago who developed RES in his spare time, and the project is open source and hosted on GitHub. He is not associated with any Reddit moderation controversy; his notability is as a builder of community tooling.