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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:23 UTC*
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Following and messaging other Redditors is currently disabled for new users. It'll eventually unlock when you gain more account age and karma - both of which are unspecified but not too prohibitive.
You should know that ‘following’ is very different here than on any other social media. Reddit is primarily a content sharing platform where we follow Subreddits (or ‘subs’) - communities which are focused on topics. In fact, it’s actually seen by some as a little creepy to follow individual people on Reddit.
You’ll be relieved to hear that you’ll never need to work hard to gain a large following here. You don’t need followers to gain more visibility or to be moved upwards on lists, receive priorities, etc. The number of followers you have doesn’t even show on your public profile to others except yourself, so collecting or soliciting followers serves no actual purpose on Reddit.
‘Following’ isn't even following your every move on Reddit. You won’t get notification that someone has read your post, liked or disliked it or even saved it to their favourites. You will never know if your profile has ever been accessed or by who, nor will you ever know who browsed, liked, disliked, saved or even reported your posts and comments.
There are, however, those who do live streams on Reddit, and if you were to follow them, you’ll get notified when they do a broadcast. Check out r/pan for the rules on live streams.
You used to be able to see the list of the Redditors you follow on mobile by clicking the ‘Square-Circle-Square-Magnifying Glass’[1] icon at the bottom, second from the left, but users of the new interface will have to click the three-line “hamburger” or “drawer” menu on the top LH of the screen which will slide out the list of your communities[2]. They will be in alphabetical order with your “favorites” first, and the users you follow will be listed beneath your subscribed subreddits list.
1: https://i.redd.it/nibfggzbcd281.jpg
2: https://i.redd.it/7titwy3thwu81.jpg
On desktop, you can click on Home (house or spaceship icon) at the top of the page or if you don’t have these, click your username on the top RH of the page[3] or the subreddit name on the top RH of the page[4] and the drop down menu lists your communities; again in alphabetical order with your favourites first and the Redditors at the bottom.
3: https://i.redd.it/hnqyrku7jwu81.jpg
4: https://i.redd.it/mj046rqoxwu81.jpg
On Old Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/[5] your subscribed subreddits list is on the right-hand side of the screen[6], where those you follow will be listed as if they were subreddits that begin with ‘u’. Nobody can see this list except you.
5: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/
6: https://i.redd.it/epswt472o2w81.jpg
Until 2020, you couldn’t actually tell who was following you. Reddit started sending notifications when someone new followed you; up until then, you simply didn’t know if you had any followers unless you looked at the number on your profile. In mid 2021, we were finally allowed to see the list of our followers. However, the only option we were given was to follow them back or not and there was still no way of blocking or removing someone who followed you.
In August 2021 the news many people had been waiting for was revealed: we can now opt out of being followed[7]. That link tells you everything you need to know, but if you go to your User Settings --> Profile page there will be a toggle to Allow people to follow you.
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/pbjshi/you_can_now_optout_of_being_followed/
The list of your followers is found on your Profile underneath your Snoovatar[8]; click the link on the number of followers you have to see their username and profile name, along with their Karma count, which enables you to see at a glance if they are prolific on Reddit. You also have the option to Follow them back. If you want to know more about them, their username is a clickable link to their profile which they will never be aware you ever accessed or not, as with anyone’s profiles. Again, nobody can see this list except you.
8: https://i.redd.it/lychp3evk3w81.png
The number shown of followers might differ to the actual name count. I’m pretty sure that’s because deleted, banned or Shadowbanned accounts aren’t on the list anymore but the count system hasn’t caught up yet.
Let me explain, using me as an example. Who’s following me? Personally, at the time of writing, I have accumulated over 150 followers. Who are they and why are they following me? I believe they fall into three categories:
Porn or t-shirt shill / spambots join Reddit and follow huge tranches of people to spam them with dodgy links. There is a way of limiting these accounts under your Profile settings. In your settings for Chat, you can change it so that only accounts older than 30 days can chat with you. This will catch many spambots before you even are aware of them. Reddit is very good at catching and deleting spambots, but once they have “followed” you they may still be numbered as followers on your profile. So, out of my 150+ followers on my count, now I’m able to see their usernames I discovered some of them no longer exist on Reddit by the laborious process of physically counting the names and comparing it with the profile count.
Secondly, and much nicer, some of my followers are people who like to read the little rhymes I used to post around Reddit. Some of them are people I’ve helped in r/NewToReddit or elsewhere and have “bookmarked” me for future reference. I know that because some of them said so at the time or I recognised the name from a recent interaction. However, I have no idea whether or not they’ve ever looked at my profile, posts or comments let alone saved, upvoted or downvoted them since. If they ever unfollow me, I won’t get a notification but I will see the number of followers on my profile go down.
Unfortunately, up until mid 2021, I suspected that at least two or even more of my followers were someone I’d annoyed in the past who’d occasionally follow me around to downvote my posts. I did notice occasional patterns of downvoting and was fairly confident as to who some of them were. When we were allowed to see our list of followers in mid 2021, I found was correct in this assumption as the number of followers went down as some “unfollowed” me and the downvote patterns stopped. Downvoting like this is mostly ineffectual and harmless though very - and deliberately - annoying. Any escalation of this behaviour would become what we call “Brigading[9]”.
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsn0v/
Again, I’ll explain further using me as an example. Let’s say you started following me (please don’t follow me).
Following somebody on Reddit therefore isn’t following them as such; it’s more or less joining their own personal subreddit which relatively few people actually use.
10: https://i.imgur.com/zNIr7n7.jpg
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhhpap/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhrmz2/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiekt0/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhldwpq/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhle0an/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwvwq/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcsj0z/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1bx6/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:27 UTC*
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Awards are normally purchased using Reddit Coins but you occasionally get given a free award by Reddit to confer on any post or comment you think is deserving. Check the “Get Coins” icon[1] at the top RH of the page - on some platforms, a red strikethrough will indicate a free award (or a special offer on purchasing coins) is available. On some platforms, if it says “Sale” instead of “Get Coins”, the free award might be hidden behind it. The icon might even just change to say "free"[2]. On the new design of the mobile app, the option is totally hidden behind the “Reddit Coins”[3] option on your profile, and there’s no way of knowing if there’s a free award to claim until you click the option to check.
1: https://i.redd.it/4kicigc5s8w81.jpg
2: https://i.redd.it/8g3gca48s8w81.jpg
3: https://i.redd.it/5clbyetau8w81.jpg
Sometimes you might see an “advertise” button where it usually says “get coins”. The “coins” button is still there next to it, albeit reduced to a small icon resembling a small stack of coins with a C in the centre.
Either way, you click on “Free” and it gives you the opportunity to claim a free award that you can give to any post or comment you want within 24 hours. If you claim it but don’t use the award in that time, it will simply vanish.
As I say, you have 24 hours to give the free award from when you open the box, but if you don’t click the “free” icon and claim the award once it appears, it will stay on your profile until you do. Free awards don’t accumulate, however, so if you leave the icon there for, let’s say a month, when you click it there will only be one free award whereas had you claimed it immediately you might have been given multiple free awards in that same time period.
There is no set pattern to being given these awards; not one that Reddit lets on about in any event, but there has been much speculation about it being tied to positive karma growth. It is true to my experience that the free awards come in waves; sometimes I’ll get one a week, but at other times it has been less frequent (and at one time even more frequent) than that.
The free awards are usually low cost with a general meaning; either Wholesome, Helpful, Reddit Silver or Hugz. However, you should know that the Wholesome Award has become notorious for being used to react inappropriately to serious events and tragedies among other situations[4]. Don’t do this. It isn’t nice. The types of awards change from time to time and during early 2022, many people reported they had stopped receiving the Hugz award. I myself have only had Silver for the last few times I’ve claimed them (at time of writing).
4: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/reddit-awards
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhj0ui/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhj7df/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi8x5x/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhujqsp/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 15:44 UTC*
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Originally from “Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare” which had a funeral scene with the option “press F to pay respects”. People thought it was funny that they tried to make a cutscene interactive and now use it whenever something bad but funny happens to someone. There’s even an ‘F’ key Award[1] to “pay respects”, but trolls occasionally use it in response to genuine tragedy. Don’t be a troll.
1: https://i.redd.it/jw7dsdxmzzv41.png
Reddit has scores of Subreddits committed to gaming. The broadest of all is r/gaming, while r/GameDeals allows you to filter video game deals by retailers and developers. r/gamedetectives has been "solving ARGs (alternate reality games) since 2015" and r/Gaming4Gamers deems itself a "middle ground between the purely-for-fun Subreddits and the more serious ones. Show off your gaming setup at r/battlestations or construct one at r/buildapc.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 15:45 UTC*
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A single link to another subreddit is often given in a comment when the subject under discussion would fit there too. Yay! A new sub to play in! But you will also find links posted to subreddits that don’t exist; i.e. Fake Subreddits generated by someone putting the prefix r/ before a random word or phrase for comic effect r/likethis_forexample. Welcome to the meta world of fake subreddits: please hold onto your hat.
r/SubsIFellFor is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.
r/subsiwishexisted is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you were disappointed at the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.
r/subsithoughtifellfor is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you thought you might be falling for a fake sub that seemed real in comments which is indeed real and does actually exist.
r/subsyoufellfor is a sub dedicated to bamboozling you into falling for a fake sub that seems real in comments which is indeed real and does actually exist but with no content or purpose other than the bamboozle you were meant to fall for by clicking the sub. Reddit loves being meta. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
r/wowthissubexists is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you thought a sub couldn’t possibly exist for something but it does. There really is a subreddit for everything.
r/twentycharacterlimit is a sub dedicated to documenting the *Traditional Reddit Reply*™ to someone posting an obviously fake sub name that's too long to be a subreddit.
r/21CharactersAndNoMore, and r/21CharacterLimitation are subs dedicated to documenting other examples of subreddit limitations!
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8lhbp/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8lzlx/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhlezio/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho8eoe/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho8o2d/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsizas/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu38al/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 15:46 UTC*
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Because there is a Subreddit for everything, we have a fine selection of parody subreddits to peruse. Subreddits that exist not for participating in but quite the opposite include:
There are more of these; there will always be more of these. Let me know if you find any!
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 15:48 UTC*
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Also known as a Formal Fallacy. Very simplistically, this is where you make an argument based on a comparison of traits that misrepresents and mischaracterises those similar traits. For example: Redditors generally like dogs, and Hitler liked dogs, so Redditors are just like Hitler. Another simple example of a false equivalence of the type you’ll often see on Reddit is saying things like because a knife and dynamite are both tools that can be used as weapons, they're pretty much the same thing so because we allow people to buy knives at the store, we should allow them to also buy dynamite there too. Any false equivalence generally exaggerates similarities and ignores important differences.
An accusation of a logical fallacy is often used on Reddit when the OP’s goal of achieving common agreement is more important to them than utilizing sound reasoning. Usually it's done intentionally to detract from or even derail the argument to persuade people that your point of view is the correct one. Reddit is extremely pedantic about logical fallacies, of which this is one. Or is it?
Catch a fallacy? What type and why? Note and discuss it at r/fallacy.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 15:49 UTC*
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Some very famous people have Reddit accounts. Some, like Bill Gates[1], President Obama[2] and the late Stephen Hawking[3], hosted an r/IAmA (Bill Gates has done 9 so far!), while others like Rick Astley u/ReallyRickAstley to Wil Wheaton u/wil, and Deadmau5 u/reddit_mau5 can be found in the wild.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m8n4vt/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_and_melinda/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/
There are many celebrity figures to be found in Reddit’s hallowed halls and they often go unnoticed[4], though some are admittedly more noticeable[5].
There’s a Ranker list[6] with some other instances. Often a celebrity will do an r/IAmA session especially if they have something to promote. Look on the Sidebar (or About tab) for forthcoming sessions on r/IAmA.
6: https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-on-reddit/celebrity-lists
You don’t have to be famous to host an AMA. At r/casualiama, anyone's welcome to host or participate in an AMA. Topics may involve anything from ordinary to extraordinary subject matter. It’s even more random over at r/AMA, but it’s still important to read the rules in both subs before contributing.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:16 UTC*
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There’s an enormous amount of content on Reddit, which is loosely organised into three main Feeds:
New users are automatically directed to two top feeds: r/all and r/popular. This is the start of your Reddit Front Page: a personalized homepage view of reddit.com, which includes top posts from all the subreddits you have subscribed to. It should look a little like this[1].
As you explore Reddit and find more niche communities suited to you, you can join them which will create your personal Home Feed to see popular posts from those subreddits. You can always browse those individual subs directly, of course. You don’t have to join a sub to be able to vote, post or comment, but if you’re not joined to a sub, posts from it won’t form part of your Home Feed.
You are not making any commitment to a sub by joining it, and you can leave or join it as many times as you like and nobody will ever know - not even its moderators. There is no limit on the number of subs you can join, but Reddit does restrict the number of subs that filter to your home feed at any one time.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhibegc/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjom4x/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjozji/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu15tm/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:17 UTC*
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Social media isn’t usually the place for sound advice on real-world problems, but Reddit does have more than its fair share of communities based on and around financial issues[1]. There are two kinds of financial help one can get on Reddit: advice and support.
Subreddits like r/personalfinance (for USA-based discussion), r/eupersonalfinance (for advice on personal finance in EU countries) or r/UKPersonalFinance will help you to learn about budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, credit, investing, and retirement planning. Their sidebars or wiki pages will be a wealth of useful information and links to help you plan your personal finances.
Subreddits like r/finance discuss financial news and views, while r/povertyfinance gives frugality tips, stories, opportunities, and general guidance for people who are struggling financially.
Subreddits like r/FinancialCareers will help plan your career in the wide world of finance and r/financialindependence gives ideas and tips for those who wish to become FIRE: Financially Independent and Retired Early. There are many more subs on a wide variety of financial issues[2] and the Search facility will help you locate the ones you want.
2: https://onjuno.com/blog/best-money-personal-finance-reddit
Everyone needs help sometimes, and Redditors like to help active and contributing members of the community. r/care is a place for Redditors to get a chance to help other established, active Redditors and give back to the community. r/assistance also has a useful resource of Subreddits that may be able to help:
Other helpful subs include:
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/comments/1hexgp/other_subreddits_that_can_help_you/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/wiki/index/othersubs
r/CasualConversation maintain lists of support resources and subs that may help:
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/findareddit/wiki/directory
r/beermoney is a community for people to discuss mostly online money-making opportunities to make that little extra cash on the side, and they also have lists of resources:
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/wiki/support
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/wiki/directory
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/wiki/index/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/wiki/faq/sites
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnToReddit/comments/pjsazs/finding_a_subreddits_rules/
Reddit might be its own self-contained corner of the Internet but we are still subject to many of the scams and confidence tricks that go on out there[11]. A good general rule to follow in life is “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” and another one is that “it’s better to miss out on something because of misplaced doubt than to get taken in because of misplaced trust”.
If someone posts, comments or sends you a direct message or chat request asking for money of any amount for any reason[12] - no matter how genuine it sounds - please report them[13], refer them to r/assistance, block them and move on. r/assistance has a useful resource of Subreddits that may be able to help them[14] in a controlled manner.
13: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058752951-How-do-I-report-a-private-message-
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/comments/1hexgp/other_subreddits_that_can_help_you/
r/Scams is the place to let people know about any online, offline, email, SMS or postal scams you might encounter, and r/DontFundMe is a subreddit dedicated to showcasing shameless or particularly egregious GoFundMe projects.
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhrmz2/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiekt0/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssyt6/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcqgtf/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcqkre/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:22 UTC*
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Has two meanings on Reddit; distinguishing your username or categorising your post. Some subreddits require you to have been given a User Flair by the mods before you can post[1] to prove you’re a verified user. Some subreddits require you to use a Post Flair and it simply won’t allow you to submit the post without prompting you to choose one.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:25 UTC*
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“Fear Of Missing Out”. An initialism added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013, describing ‘‘the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you’re missing out; that your peers are doing, in the know about, or in possession of more or something better than you’’. It’s the compulsion that leads us to check social media again and again and again[1] so we don’t feel left out of the loop.
1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8283615/
Some studies propose that FOMO is the biggest driver of social media usage[2] while also being associated with feelings of inadequacy, loneliness, and anxiety[3]. Social media has the potential to be an addictive drug[4] by tapping into our intrinsic need to connect with other humans.
2: https://medium.com/digital-reflections/background-of-fomo-7b1d755f0e59
3: https://www.brainforestcenters.com/news/social-media-and-mental-health
4: https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/efa31e60b1e2498588ddc10d074b494c?525
Dopamine is the chemical substance produced by our brains which is responsible for regulating our mood and energy levels. It emits signals of pleasure and excitement to the brain but dopamine can also cause “seeking behaviour”[5].
So, are we missing out on anything if we don’t constantly check our social media[6]? Possibly, but missing out needn’t be a bad thing. By turning it around you can even reinforce your social bonds with your “real-life” others. “Did you see X doing Y?” you might be asked. Your best reply would be “Oh wow, how did I miss that? Tell me all!” and maybe even follow up with sharing something small you were perhaps saving for later.
Your friend will now feel “superior” at knowing something you didn’t, but your apparent excitement in allowing them to be the first to impart the information will deter any negative feelings they might have about your “lack of knowledge”. The best bit about this is that your dopamine hit now comes from making someone else feel good instead of making yourself feel bad.
Instagram *et al* creates distorted perceptions of the carefully edited lives of others. The constant “upward social comparisons” and unreasonable expectations we are constantly bombarded with can adversely impact our self-esteem. We can easily feel lonely and inadequate through the relentless highlighting of the “perfect lives” of others[7] in comparison with our own daily routine-led existence. It helps to remind ourselves that in the end people are desperately trying to show themselves in the best possible light on social networks, and Subreddits like r/Instagramreality highlight the subtle[8] and the not-so-subtle[9] use of tools like Facetune and Photoshop in portraying unreality as reality.
Demystify those “perfect” lives with r/TikTokCringe, r/quityourbullshit, r/thatHappened, r/insanepeoplefacebook, r/facepalm, r/cringe, r/cringepics and of course, r/Instagramreality. When the attempt for perfection goes too far, the NSFW sub r/Botchedsurgeries has a long list in their sidebar (‘about’ tab on mobile) on what they deem acceptable snark to unnecessary body-shaming.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:26 UTC*
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A link or phrase posted when a user capitalizes the ‘r’ in a link to a subreddit or anything else that proves a user is on mobile. R/foundthemobileuser. Stupid Autocarrot. r/foundthemobileuser.
r/foundthehondacivic is a sub about finding someone linking r/foundthemobileuser and not at all about finding Honda Civics.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:28 UTC*
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Beware of the many subs offering Reddit upvotes or karma for little to no engagement. There are legitimate reasons to avoid them[1]. However, there are some Subreddits which invite you to compete for useful Reddit goodies in an engaging and fun way. Warning: some might even become addictive.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/2cbf9l/karma_farms/
As always, it is extremely important to read the rules[2] carefully before posting in a sub that’s new to you, but especially so in the competition subreddits. Some of them may have minimum Karma requirements and all of them will have rules about Post format. Browse a few different posts to get a feel of the place before participating.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnToReddit/comments/pjsazs/finding_a_subreddits_rules/
r/freegold - Free Gold under certain circumstances. Rules for freegold
r/Predictor - Rules for Predictor
There will be more out there of varying quality. Because the posts in these subs have to be high in quality, these aren’t generally considered to be Karmafarms, so, good luck!
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhjybg/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjj52m/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh96swb/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsj6n6/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:30 UTC
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A phrase used by Reddit to describe itself, Reddit is a social news aggregator, i.e. a mixture of discussion platform and link distributor, gathering social news both serious and trivial. This is done in an almost unimaginable number of “subreddits” founded and filled with content by its millions of users worldwide bonding over shared interests. Reddit’s huge global community gives it a very quick turnover of posts with many viral videos and internet Memes originating here, and therefore has a great deal of crowdsourced power over what becomes famous online.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:30 UTC*
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“Fixed That For You”. A small edit of a previous comment that changes the meaning in a (sometimes) fundamental and (almost always) humorous or sardonic way. Often used with the unedited quote ~~crossed out~~ as strikethrough text.
We also like fixing real stuff on Reddit. r/DIY is your go-to source for awesome DIY projects and go over to r/fixit if you need to fix something but don’t know how. r/techsupportgore is for IT projects gone wrong and r/techsupportmacgyver is for innovative hardware fixes. r/DiWHY, however, is your go-to source for DIY that will leave you scratching your head.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 18:32 UTC
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“For What It's Worth”. You can ignore this Encyclopaedia Redditica but FWIW I think you should save it anyway just in case.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 27/04/2022 at 14:59 UTC
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Old Reddit had a certain functionality that the redesign (New Reddit) or the app doesn’t have, and that is the ability to force certain actions by filter. In the old design, Reddit had a convention to force a certain language for official Reddit action buttons. For example, https://old.reddit.com[1] is the old design in general but https://en.reddit.com[2] is the old design but forced to be in English. Forcing Old Reddit to be in, say, Spanish, would be https://es.reddit.com[3], but that translation only applies to the action bars and buttons, not the posts or comments.
Some enterprising subs would make their css a certain way to use such url prefixes to make filtering their content easier. The most well known one of these is https://np.reddit.com[4], used for a "no participation" mode when crossposting a post from another subreddit to make it hard to vote or comment in the original, so they could discuss it without danger of any accusations of Brigading or Vote Manipulation and the consequences thereof. While not required, you can still use Old Reddit to access the NP (No Participation) domain of Reddit when crossposting. The NP domain can be accessed by replacing the "www" in your reddit link with "np".
Some “old school” Redditors still use the letters (NP) in crosspost post titles to warn people against going to participate in the original thread.
Some of these old filters can still be seen[5]. The sub linked above uses "xi" to filter that sub to show only "fanart" tagged posts. You can see in the sidebar of that sub (on the old design at least) an entire "filter" section and can see the different filters use different prefixes.
5: https://xi.reddit.com/r/DarlingInTheFranxx/comments/ssjxz7/ichigoro_family/
Other legacy Reddit filters include:
There may well be others out there too. Let me know if you find any.
6: https://i.redd.it/epswt472o2w81.jpg
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsn0v/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiax1m/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hha8ay6/
