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View submission: A Guide to Reddit Lingo
- LARP; LARPer
“Live Action Role-Playing”. A game where the participants physically portray historical, fantasy or other characters. Unfortunately, Reddit attracts LARPers in the form of Internet trolls - people pretending to be something they're really not, especially on Subreddits dedicated to Relationships, Advice, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Politics, and Religion. LARPing on Reddit can also be talking big online about some kind of physical, real-world action you're going to take without actually having any intention of leaving your computer, or even throwing out controversial opinions as being your own simply to gain a reaction. Finding a costume for this might not be easy though[1].
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/8dj8mw/larping_trolling/
Because Reddit has zero barrier to entry, and is based on anonymity, we even attract deliberate LARPers[2]. You should note that the r/IAmA Subreddit requires stringent evidence[3] of identity. Some other subreddits do this out of necessity too[4]. *See Also:* Famous Redditors, Relationship and Advice Subreddits: Special Note[5].
2: https://medium.com/@alexanderlago11/how-to-troll-on-reddit-a7d3e0eb260b
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gt94432/
- LDR
“Long-Distance Relationship”. The relationship subreddits have a lexicon of their own that you should familiarise yourself with before using them. This is added here as it’s increasingly crossing over into other subs. *See Also:* Relationship and Advice Subreddits: Special Note[6].
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/gt94432/
- r/LeopardsAteMyFace
A link or phrase posted when someone is surprised at being negatively affected by the consequences of their own political beliefs and actions. The phrase *'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party* satirises those who happily vote for negative consequences for others only to be dismayed when those consequences also affect them. r/LeopardsAteMyFace.
- LimbRetrieval-Bot
If you post the “shrug” emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you may be visited by this bot, telling you “You dropped this \ “ . Here’s why, and how to stop it from happening again[7]. *See Also:* Emoticons, Markdown Text.
- Linking
You may be asked to link another source, comment or subreddit at some time.
You can simply copy and paste a web URL into your comment. However, it often can be huge and full of additional symbols and letters[8] often looking like this at the end: /?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share. To tidy it up a bit, you can safely delete all this clutter up to and including the question mark and the link will still work.
8: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
Reddit provides an easy way to simplify a link both for mobile and desktop. The “Reply” box has an icon with two interlocked rings. Using this link will give you the opportunity to embed your hyperlink so it looks like a text link like this[9]. Another way of doing this is to sandwich the text you want to show up between square brackets [ ] immediately followed by the hyperlink sandwiched between parentheses ( )
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/lw4gp4/a_guide_to_reddit_lingo/guht7e5/
When you’re reading a Post, on the top of the screen is a three dots pull down Hamburger Menu, where one of the options is ���Share” allowing you to copy the link to paste into a reply, or an icon at the bottom of the post with an upwards arrow in an open box, marked “Share” with the same option. At the bottom of each Comment next to the Edit button is either the same three dots menu, again with the same option.
Simply type r/ in front of the name of the Subreddit you want to link to. It’s important to spell the sub name correctly but it isn’t case-sensitive, so r/newtoreddit will work just as well as r/NewToReddit.
Simply type u/ in front of the username of the Redditor you want to link to, for example u/llamageddon01. This is also known as a “ping” or a “tag” and that user will get a notification whenever you use it in a comment.
Do not use the ‘link’ button or Markdown Text to trick or confuse users, such as attempts on clickjacking[10], spoofing[11] or hiding a Subreddit's name to replace it for another in an attempt to deceive readers. The first two will get you permabanned and the third will certainly garner negative reports. The only time such a “bait and switch” is considered acceptable (and the jury’s still out on this one) is for an ‘appropriate’ Rickroll[12].
10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking
11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack
12: https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0
- LPT
“Life Pro Tip”. Mandatory for posting in r/LifeProTips but also used throughout Reddit.
- Logical Fallacies
See Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies.
- Lost for Words
It happens to the best of us. Small-talk, despite sounding anodyne, does not come easy to many of us. Clumsy or tactless conversation is a staple of most coming-of-age films for a reason and the number of books devoted to improving the social skills of people of all ages could sink a battleship. You need Reddit Karma, so you need to comment, but what? A good tool to employ is the principle of the Five Ws and How *aka* 5W1H[13] of information gathering:
13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
Let me add another tool to your box - the principle of the Five Styles of Reddit commenting:
These are pretty much given in the order you should employ them. The last two might not win you any favours in some subs so use them carefully. *See Also:* Circlejerk, Comment Chain, Copypasta, Hivemind, Increasingly Verbose, "I regret that I have but one upvote to give.", “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way", Puns and Pop-Culture References, Switcharoo, Wishful Multiupvote.
14: https://www.happier.com/blog/nice-things-to-say-100-compliments/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hfi2e/most_cliche_reddit_comments/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/7dc49k/what_reddit_cliches_wind_you_up_the_most/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/mr8g9h/reddit/
- “Lost in New”
A post will often be referred to as being “lost in new”. It simply means a post that gets swept along in all the myriad of new posts to Reddit, never making it to the front page. Some of us will forever be lost in new regardless of the quality of our posts but that’s fine, because Reddit is strange like that. *See Also:* “Reddit is strange like that.”, Sort, “When is the best time to Post for maximum attention?”.
- r/Lostredditors
A link posted when the OP appears to have posted in the wrong subreddit. r/Lostredditors. *See Also:* r/SubsTakenLiterally.
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