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View submission: A Guide to Reddit Lingo
- Gilding Level Trophies
Giving Gold and Platinum awards entities you to a Gilding Level Trophy for your profile. These are currently the only two awards you can give that earn you points towards these totals. You get 1 point for each Gold you give and 4 for each Platinum you give. Some images of these trophies[1]. The Gilding Tiers are:
Some time ago, some users calculated these to be the amounts needed[2] but Reddit is yet to confirm them.
2: https://i.imgur.com/jyLUlQo.png
*See Also:* Award Types and Notifications: Special Note
- “Gilt Guilt”
Awards are a way of saying, “An upvote doesn’t quite describe how much i enjoyed your post.” However, some people have an uneasy feeling on receiving a Reddit award, especially Gold or other premium ones. This is understandable but you shouldn’t feel (and definitely not express) guilt. Many awards are given with Reddit Coins that the user received for free through getting awards and didn’t spend any money to get them. Reddit coins have no real world currency value so once a user has them in their account the only thing they can do with them is give awards to other people.
Expressing “Gilt Guilt” will elicit one of two responses: Copypasta or accusations of Award Farming[3]. So many Redditors in the past have expressed sentiments like “they’re a waste of money” or “you should have spent it on charities instead”, it’s actually become a Reddit trope, with its own Copypasta:
3: https://i.redd.it/dbsj2bu2z7c51.jpg
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger! BUT YOU SHOULD’VE SPENT IT ON CHARITY YOU F@& PIECE OF SHIT Edit 2: TWO GOLDS? You mfng piece of shit KIND STRANGERS! You f@& took away 500 Reddit coins that could’ve gone to starving children in F@& AFRICA! Be ashamed. Be very ashamed.
Edit 2: I don’t care about downvotes I just made a whole angry edit about them is all
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gtc4d8g/
- Godwin’s Law
Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a saying, commonly known as an “Internet Adage”, made by author Mike Godwin[5] in 1990. The law states: "As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a comparison of a person's being compared to Hitler, or another Nazi reference, increases." You may see this happening on Reddit, but strangely few people seem to know it has a name. *See Also:* False Equivalence, “Grammar Nazi”, Internet Adages, Pedant; Pedantry.
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin
- Gold; Gilding or Guilding
Giving a user an award is referred to as "gilding" (or sometimes “guilding”) and posts that receive awards are called "gilded." Reddit Gold is an award giving you Premium Reddit and 100 coins to spend. The original Reddit meaning for Gold has changed over the years[6]. *See Also:* Award Types and Notifications: Special Note[7], “Gilt Guilt”.
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gtc4d8g/
- Grammar
See Spelling and Grammar, Spelling and Grammar: Special Note[8].
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gt6ptml/
- “Grammar Nazi”
“Grammar Nazi”[9] or “Grammar Police” refers to someone who believes they are almost contractually bound to correct any grammar and / or spelling mistakes made by others. We have a lot of them on Reddit. Or should I have said “we have a large number of them”? *See Also:* Godwin’s Law, Pedant; Pedantry, Spelling and Grammar, Spelling and Grammar: Special Note[10].
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gt6ptml/
- GTAGE
A link or phrase posted when an image shows an item that has Great Taste And Great Execution. Should not be confused with GTBAE, ATAAE or ATBGE. r/GTAGE.
- GTBAE
A link or phrase posted when an image shows an item that has Great Taste But Awful Execution. Should not be confused with GTAGE, ATAAE or ATBGE. r/GTBAE.
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