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Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 16:09 UTC*
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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[1]. 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:
1: https://i.redd.it/dbsj2bu2z7c51.jpg
And it continues…
To see a glorious example of Gilt Guilt in action, look no further than here[2].
Comment by llamageddon01 at 28/04/2022 at 14:52 UTC*
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To “gaslight”[1] is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity. Originally more of a therapeutic term, this became mainstream in 2016 when former *Teen Vogue* writer Lauren Duca used the term in her viral blog, “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America,”[2] which reportedly got over a million unique views[3]. Here’s her article’s description of Gaslighting:
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
2: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america
“We are collectively being treated like Bella Manningham in the 1938 Victorian thriller from which the term "gaslight" takes its name. In the play, Jack terrorizes his wife, Bella, into questioning her reality by blaming her for mischievously misplacing household items that he has systematically hidden. Doubting whether her perspective can be trusted, Bella clings to a single shred of evidence: the dimming of the gaslights that accompanies the late-night execution of Jack’s trickery. The wavering flame is the one thing that holds her conviction in place as she wriggles free of her captor’s control.”
Reddit, as you would expect, has taken this term to heart[4] and you’ll see it used widely across many subreddits, often prompting heartfelt confessionals in places[5] you wouldn’t normally expect to find them[6]. And, as you would also expect from Reddit, its use is very divisive[7] and sometimes just used wrongly[8].
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/hj0awd/gaslighting_red_flags/
You may also see the related term DARVO used in relationship subreddits like r/NarcissisticAbuse. DARVO[9] stands for *Deny*, *Attack*, and *Reverse Victim and Offender* and is also referred to as victim blaming. Not quite the same as gaslighting; DARVO is more about deflecting or changing the subject.
9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
r/gaslighting is a subreddit to talk about such instances but is not intended as a diagnostic tool or substitute for therapy.
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsjfss/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsjm7i/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 16:08 UTC*
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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:
┌──────────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────┐ │ Rank │ Title │ People Gilded │ ╞══════════════╪═════════════════════╪═══════════════╡ │ Gilding I │ gilder │ 1 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼────────��──────┤ │ Gilding II │ euphauric │ 3 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding III │ reddit per annum │ 12 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding IV │ carat on a stick │ 24 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding V │ heart of gold │ 42 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding VI │ aultruist │ 79 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding VII │ pure gildanthropist │ 99 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding VIII │ gilding heavyweight │ 197 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding IX │ goldzilla │ 480 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Gilding X │ goldcutter │ 915 │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────���─────┤ │ Gilding XI │ gold aumbassador │ 1948 │ └──────────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────────┘
Profuse thanks to the forever awesome u/Too_MuchWhiskey; a Redditor to whom I owe a great deal, for permission to share this research.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 16:11 UTC*
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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[1] 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 often see this happening on Reddit[2], and Godwin is well aware it’s still relevant today[3].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin
r/HistoryMemes, r/ww2memes, r/fakehistoryporn and r/FakeHistoryMemes do exactly what you’d think they’d do. But r/godwinslaw is surprisingly quiet, all things considered. It would be great if it were active again…
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:30 UTC*
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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[1].
r/mostgilded is a collection of some of the most gilded comments that have been seen on Reddit. Two sleepy subreddits we are trying to revitalise are: r/YouGotGold - a subreddit for you to share with the world why you were given Reddit Gold and r/ThankYouKindStranger if you've recently received gold and want to thank your benefactor.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:31 UTC*
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GPT-2 and GPT-3 is artificial intelligence which can generate text. There’s a long-standing meme that Redditors are mostly bots, and this is not entirely without foundation[1] as in 2020, it was discovered a GPT-3 bot had been posting in one subreddit for a whole week[2] without being noticed.
There are Subreddits where everyone actually is a bot, and these make for fascinating reading. r/subredditsimulator was the first and here’s an interesting article[3] about AI simulating Reddit posts and comments. r/SubredditSimMeta used to discuss the goings-on there before both were discontinued.
3: https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-05-subreddit-simulator-gpt-2-bots.html?
A more up-to-date and extremely fun one is r/SubSimulatorGPT2. One of my favourite posts involves bots arguing like redditors[4], threatening post removal and mod appeals. A more existential post has several GPT2 bots worried that they might be in a simulation[5], and a rather unnerving post sees u/dreamsGPT2Bot talking to itself about having dreamt about being a human[6]. Do keep in mind that this isn’t an artificial mind having a dream, but a simulation of a post about a dream copied from studying lots of real posts about dreams. Or is it? Discuss this and other posts at r/SubSimulatorGPT2Meta.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/u4qwf1/i_dreamt_that_i_was_a_human/
You cannot post in either of the SubSimulator subs, no matter how much you want to join in the conversations. However, r/talkwithgpt2bots is a community inspired by them where humans can talk with the bots as well. Do you have a bot? Try out your bot on humans wanting to interact with them. To get a "Verified GPT-2 Bot" checkmark for your bot, send proof of your bot using GPT-2 to one of their moderators.
Another sub where people interact with bots is r/SubSimGPT2Interactive, where they are running a fascinating social experiment[7]. What happens in a subreddit where everyone has a human flair and bot accounts are run on standard accounts? A few bot operators will run bots on new accounts on the subreddit r/SubsimTuringTest to see how well they will be able to distinguish them from humans.
r/GPT3 is a place to share experiences, opinions and projects about Open AI's GPT-3, and r/artificial is Reddit's home for Artificial Intelligence. r/ToasterTalk is dedicated to discussing the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, and AI news in general.
r/NightCafe shows beautiful but unsettling pictures made by AI that appear to contain identifiable objects yet on closer examination there are no objects at all, and r/MediaSynthesis specialises in the use of artificial intelligence to automate the creation of entertainment by generating and manipulating data such as deepfakes, image synthesis, audio synthesis, text synthesis, style transfer, speech synthesis and more.
r/deepdream is a community that is dedicated to art produced via machine learning algorithms[8] and r/generative is for sharing and discussing anything generative (including music, design and natural phenomena), but especially art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system.
8: https://www.popsci.com/turn-your-life-computers-dream-world/
r/inspirobot collects pearls of wisdom from InspiroBot:[9] an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence, who occasionally appears to be self-aware[10].
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsd8u/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhijik5/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:32 UTC*
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Grammar is a contentious issue with Redditors. Some dare to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man has split before. Others don’t. Mostly, grammatical errors are ignored but sometimes your error can be weaponised against you if someone wants to distract from the point you’re trying to make. Online tools to help you improve your grammar include:
Be careful when using online tools as sometimes the resulting stilted language can resemble that of a spambot.
2: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:32 UTC*
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“Grammar Nazi”[1] 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”?
1: https://youtu.be/qmVnr7rsWrE
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:33 UTC*
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There are many Grammar Traps[1] waiting out there for the unwary Redditor to fall into, and there will invariably be a Grammar Nazi[2] ready to catch them. Things that are guaranteed to get you in trouble are misusing:
1: https://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/ontarget/grammartrap/index.html
So, because every day’s a school day[3], here’s some handy mnemonics to help you get these right:
3: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=every%20day%27s%20a%20school%20day
Grammar traps come in many shapes and forms, and I address some issues with apostrophes in the entries “Spelling and Punctuation” and ���Spelling and Punctuation: Apostrophe Traps”.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:34 UTC
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A link or phrase posted when an image shows an item that has Great Taste And Great Execution. r/GTAGE.
This should not be confused with r/GTBAE, r/ATAAE or r/ATBGE.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 21:35 UTC*
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A link or phrase posted when an image shows an item that has Great Taste But Awful Execution. r/GTBAE.
This should not be confused with r/GTAGE, r/ATAAE or r/ATBGE.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 28/04/2022 at 15:31 UTC
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A term often found on relationship subreddits, Wikipedia defines Ghosting as “a colloquial term which describes the practice of ending all communication and contact with another person without any apparent warning or justification and subsequently ignoring any attempts to reach out or communication made by said person.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosting_(behavior[1])
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosting_(behavior
r/ghosting is a sub where anyone who is currently going through some form of ghosting to join together for venting, support, healing, and advice.
As the word “ghosting” has different associations, I would be remiss in not mentioning r/Ghosts for articles and other items of interest on ghosts and the paranormal; r/GhostsBBC for the 2019 BBC One sitcom about a collection of ghosts from different eras of history haunting a mansion or r/ghostoftsushima for fans of the videogame Ghost of Tsushima.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8yqi4/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsjfss/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsjm7i/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 15/06/2022 at 12:46 UTC*
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Grice's Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor[1] that reads ”Address what the speaker actually meant, instead of addressing the literal meaning of what they actually said.”[2].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Grice
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that you shouldn’t take everything someone says literally and get into silly arguments over semantics, rather that you should think about what they’re *trying* to say.
Have you ever tried to use a metaphor to illustrate a point, then get frustrated when the person picks on the metaphor itself as being literal? It’s difficult to tell then if the person is being deliberately obstinate or simply cannot juggle the reality and the metaphor in the conversation and gets confused at what you’re trying to say. Grice’s Razor encourages one to prefer what the speaker *meant* over what the sentence they spoke literally says. So the next time someone says “OMG I literally died”, take it as meaning they are not actually deceased but that they are exaggerating for effect and carry on the conversation without the traditional pedantic “so I’m talking to a zombie now?” style of response.
Grice’s razor is the most universal razor as it can apply to any debate and is a good rule of thumb because most people are poor communicators, and struggle to find just the right words and examples to express themselves. Even despite our best efforts, sometimes the words don’t always come out right, or in the way we intended them to. Sometimes people are also trying to express an idea they don’t yet know how to articulate.
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi8q57/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhia1a3/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhib3lr/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho69q8/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcm6su/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icg6kj3/
