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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
Hiding or Blocking a Subreddit in r/all
Comment by llamageddon01 at 28/10/2021 at 10:25 UTC*
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You may notice some Redditors have some version of 'Helper' or 'Contributor' next to their username. This is a user flair added by r/NewToReddit mods as a thank you to that Redditor for being helpful within the community, and a signal to everyone that they are a helpful community member! Our latest information is here https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/helpers[1].
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/helpers
Any questions, please modmail[2] us.
2: https://new.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/NewToReddit
Thank you very much to each and every helper! You help to make this community what it is and really are a great help, not only in providing a friendly welcome, guidance and support to new users, but in helping to keep the community a safe, welcoming space, and embodying the spirit of the community. Thank you!
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhirho3/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwo3k/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsk313/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhui797/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 16:20 UTC*
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Unfortunately, a hacked Reddit account can happen[1] and if you suspect it’s happened to you, here’s what you should do[2].
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/mg21z0/account_hacked_and_now_posting_porn/
Reddit had a security breach[3] some time ago, which led to the possibility of Reddit accounts being bought and sold with the intention of using them for spambot accounts[4].
Spam from an established account has more credibility and is more likely to make it through our spam filters and other such measures, and this form of identity theft is known as ‘credential stuffing’[5] - where someone gains access to somewhere by using credentials that have been exposed and shared online[6].
5: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-credential-stuffing/
6: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/bots/what-is-credential-stuffing/
Even if you didn’t have a Reddit account at that time, it could still happen if you’re not careful. A study found that a startling 61% of people admit to using the same password across multiple websites[7].
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 16:21 UTC*
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Otherwise known on Reddit as Spooky Season[1] or even Spooktober[2]. As you would imagine, Halloween is a special time on Reddit, and nearer the date you might see some of your favourite subreddits changing their theme to suit, or even seasonal awards being added to the Awards list. But as subreddits are for life, not just for Halloween, subs that are there all year long which really come into the fore this season are:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/halloween/comments/ikjp3a/happy_first_day_of_spooky_season/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/spooktober/comments/pzz718/credit_is_in_the_bottom_left_panel/
And, of course, who could forget r/Halloweenmovies. Talking of which, this is the time of year for scary stories, and you’ll find some great ones at:
For some eyebleach of nature at its finest, we have:
Speaking of such; spiders are a staple of the season, and see a super selection of spooder subs:
Paranormal goings-on are always more popular this time of year:
Did anyone say….. bats?
…..or more strange encounters?
And more seasonal-not-seasonal eyebleach can be found at:
Finally, nothing says spooky as much as something saying S͎̣̦̦͙̤̈ͤ̔ͧ̿̚p̟̤̹͍̟̙̰̀͌͂ͭ͐͊̅ỏ҉̜̱̮o͍͕̱̖ͯk̢͔̠̣ͤ͛́ͥ̇͝͡y̶̛̟̩̋͊̎͋̊͛͒̚. Create “Zalgo” style Void Text with these two generators:
Keep in mind that, like emojis[5], not everyone will be as enthusiastic about your new find as you may be.
4: https://lingojam.com/CreepyZalgoTextGenerator
r/hauntedattractions is a place for actors or enthusiasts of the “haunted house” industry. If you make your own seasonal decor or just like to see people’s creations, we have r/HalloweenProps, and for 2021, r/Costuming had a Halloween Megathread[6]. I absolutely know you’ll want some more suitable subs for this season, and here’s two large collections:
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/halloween/comments/cc1ipo/autumnhalloween_subreddits/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 22:09 UTC*
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One of the many “Mystery Meat” names[1] for Overflow menus.
1: https://i.redd.it/cdu0yuus1gw81.png
The history of the development of the Graphical User Interface[2] is a fascinating rabbit hole to lose yourself into. “Mystery Meat Navigation” is a term coined in 1998 by usability analyst Vincent Flanders[3] to describe user interfaces in web sites in which it isn’t obvious for users to find navigational hyperlinks or know what they contain without clicking them first. Prescient as he often was, this term became even more appropriate over the years as mobile navigation systems struggled with Progressive Disclosure - the need to present additional menu options to the user - but were restricted by space constraint.
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
3: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/bad-web-design.html
An important goal of progressive disclosure in website and mobile app design is to free up valuable screen ‘real estate’ by only showing information that is relevant to the end user's current activity at any one time. Most modern websites cannot fit all their menu options into a single Action Bar without making it cluttered and/or unreadable on a small screen, and started to rely on small icons usually resembling three horizontal or vertical dots or lines[4] to show the user there was more stuff inside; coincidentally (or not?) resembling simplified graphical representations of fast-food items[5].
4: https://i.redd.it/kxv72kyug9v81.jpg
5: https://uxplanet.org/choose-correct-menu-icon-for-your-navigation-7ffc22df80ac
The term “Overflow Menu”(or “Post Overflow”) is a more formal way of referring to buttons or links that don’t explain to you what they do until you click on them to find out, and the hamburger icon may also be referred to as a “Navigation Drawer” or a “Slide Drawer” icon as pressing it often causes an additional menu to slide out of one side of the screen[6].
6: https://i.redd.it/7titwy3thwu81.jpg
Hungry after reading this misleading title? Find what you’re really looking for at r/burgers or r/hamburger, and discover the recipe that surprised the Internet[7] at the wonderful r/Old_Recipes. Finally, this popular repost sparks controversy every time it tries to prove that the perfect burger does exist[8], while the subreddit r/VintageMenus showcases old restaurant or hotel menus pre-1985.
7: https://www.thekitchn.com/reddit-surprise-hamburgers-review-23200375
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/r4rxy5/hungry_the_perfect_burger_does_exist/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 22:10 UTC*
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Currently, you can’t easily hide a sub in r/all. There’s some useful information here[1] but these options only work for desktop users of Reddit, not the official mobile app. If you use Reddit on the desktop site, then you can filter a sub from r/all by going to Old Reddit[2]. Enter the unwanted sub name in the 'filter subreddit' section on the sidebar. There is no filter for r/popular.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/44498b/how_to_hide_or_filter_a_subreddit_from_rall/
2: https://old.reddit.com/r/all/
Users who don't find r/all and r/popular to their tastes are probably better off creating a list of their own preferred subs and browsing "Home" instead. Reddit are working on a filtering system, but this is taking time.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssh6c/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9stoov/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 22:10 UTC*
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An option on your Profile Menu[1]. You can sort your recent Reddit history by Recent, Upvoted, Downvoted or Hidden.
1: https://i.redd.it/x0xh4nn6lhw81.jpg
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 22:12 UTC*
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A collective term used disparagingly, also known as the Reddit Hivemind. In general, people tend to gravitate to groups where they feel a connection to the others in the group, and Reddit is no exception. The opinion of the majority of people on Reddit is often aligned, and for the outlier, this often seems like a “Hivemind” in action. Things often happen on Reddit that are inexplicable and therefore attributed to the Hivemind, such as mass downvoting. Sometimes a post will get a downvote and for no other apparent reason than the ‘bandwagon effect’ others will downvote it too until it gains negative traction and is r/DownvotedToOblivion.
To see the Hivemind in full flow[1] you need look no further than this image post of someone's daily in-game earnings for a farming simulator game. The total happened to be 69420, and the comment section contains hundreds of identical comments, all saying "Nice". Nobody organised it; nobody suggested it; it just happened.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/sw0g2s/i_accidentally_sold_one_fiber_and/
A meta discussion[2] about a previous post concerning the Reddit Hivemind[3] is fascinating with lots of insight into Reddit algorithms, but draws no real conclusions. In a more navel-gazing subreddit, some fascinating insights[4] were shared and discussed but again without a verdict being reached.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/comments/5j0cdx/udeggit_explains_the_reddit_hivemind/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/mdcxqk/what_is_the_reddit_hivemind/
As one Redditor said in the depths of one of the most “Reddit” of Reddit posts ever[5]: *”The hivemind is always right, the hivemind is infallible. Your opinion will conform to the hivemind or you will be found wanting. You will not dissent from the hivemind.“*
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhq94y/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi8gd6/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi95gm/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhifogw/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhirvqx/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho8eoe/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhp6oys/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhpyhjm/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu0ve1/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1bx6/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 21/10/2021 at 22:12 UTC*
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A list of the subreddits you have joined. Once you start to join subreddits, their posts will appear on your home page. There are various ways of sorting these (Best, Hot, Top, New, Rising) from a menu at the top of the page[1]. Click "+Join" to add a sub to your Home feed (if you ever want to leave it, the Leave button will be in the same place). You should also be able to see them in http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/mine[2].
1: https://i.redd.it/hi4w88migjq81.jpg
2: http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/mine
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi9rnq/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhibegc/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiqoam/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu15tm/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 29/04/2022 at 14:51 UTC*
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Hanlon’s Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor[1] that reads ”Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”[2].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
In philosophy, a razor is a principle or a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the “shaving off”) of unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that sometimes people intentionally do bad things but more often than not, those bad things are the result of incompetence. In other words, when assessing people’s actions, you shouldn’t assume that they acted out of a desire to cause harm as long as there is a reasonable alternative explanation, because it’s far more likely that they’re simply being one or more of the following:
For example, if you didn’t receive a notice about an important event, Hanlon’s Razor means that you shouldn’t assume that this happened because the person in charge deliberately decided not to send it to you because they dislike you; rather that it’s far more reasonable to assume that they simply just forgot to send it in the first place.
Applying Hanlon’s Razor can help you avoid the negative emotions associated with assuming bad intentions. In many cases, believing that someone acted out of malice will cause you to experience more negative emotions such as anger or stress, compared to assuming that they acted due to other reasons. You could, for instance, be seething inwardly at that person in the example above who you believe deliberately excluded you while the truth of the matter is that they’re nothing but a total airhead with no malice - or much else for that matter - in their thoughts, and the only negative emotions in play here are the ones you’re manufacturing for yourself which will only get worse while you watch the airhead breezing merrily through life in total oblivion.
Hanlon’s Razor can also be used effectively to defuse a situation like the one above. If you really do believe that you didn’t get the invitation because of malice, using the razor to say something to them like “I guess you must have been too busy to send me the invite” is a lot less likely to cause friction than being directly confrontational, and allows for a “get-out clause” to save face for both of you in the event of an innocent mistake or guilt-trip them into either admitting their feelings (unlikely) or quietly sending you the invite next time (more likely) if it were, in fact, deliberate. Or, as I like to say in crude haiku form: **The benefit of the doubt is the best gift you could give anyone** - “anyone” here including yourself, of course.
When you combine Hanlon's Razor with Clarke's Third Law[3] (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”) you get Grey's Corollary: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”[4]. Various related principles have been formulated throughout history, but my all time favourite variant comes from the novel “Time Enough for Love”[5] by Robert A. Heinlein: “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
4: http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/2007/07/greys-law.html
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love
Reddit, as you would expect, takes Hanlon’s Razor Very Seriously Indeed™[6] with many Redditors trying to explain it from the informative[7] to the inevitable “Reddit Moment” comment chain[8].
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/mnk3yy/cmv_redditors_often_ignore_hanlons_razor/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7pkrsz/eli5_what_hanlons_razor_is/
r/facepalm is a gallery of inexplicable stupidity and r/stupidpeoplefacebook is dedicated to stupid posts that people put on Facebook. r/PeopleAreFckinStupid is a place to show off fucking stupid people, unsurprisingly, while r/KidsAreFuckingStupid is more for showing how inferior childrens’ skills are than ours are as adults. And that babies know literally nothing. God damn kids are so dumb.
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi95gm/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhifx7j/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hkpzla4/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho69q8/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcm6su/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icg6kj3/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsizas/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 29/04/2022 at 17:30 UTC*
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You can Hide posts on Reddit. The “hide” button on your profile[1] makes the post disappear from your view so you won’t see it again on any listing. You click hide, then refresh the page, and that post will be gone from your feeds. The post hasn’t been deleted because you cannot delete anyone else’s posts or comments from Reddit. In fact, using the “hide” button on one of your own posts doesn’t delete it either, nor does it hide the posts from other users. If you don't want others to see a post or comment you made any more, you need to use "delete".
1: https://i.redd.it/k732ju47qhw81.jpg
If you change your mind about hiding a post, on the mobile app head over to your profile icon in the upper right hand corner of the page[2] and tap "History" --> "Recent" --> "Hidden" to get this menu[3].
When you land at the hidden post, tap the hamburger post overflow menu in the upper right hand corner of the post and choose the “unhide” option. You can also get there via this link in New Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/me/hidden/[4].
2: https://i.redd.it/ox0xqepzzvt81.jpg
3: https://i.redd.it/x0xh4nn6lhw81.jpg
4: https://www.reddit.com/user/me/hidden/
You should also know that if you report a post[5] for any reason, that post will now automatically be hidden and appear in your Hidden folder.
5: https://i.redd.it/k732ju47qhw81.jpg
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsk313/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 14/06/2022 at 18:01 UTC*
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Hitchens’ Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor[1] that reads ”What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”[2]. It falls under the philosophical concept of Burden of Proof[3].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that the burden of proving any claim is on the one making the assertion and that a lack of satisfactory evidence means the claim can be dismissed.
The late atheistic philosopher Christopher Hitchens did not, by any means, introduce a new way of thinking with this principle as he actually paraphrased it from a Latin dictum of logic which was widely used in the 19th century, *“Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.” ("What is freely asserted is freely dismissed")*.
However, due to the huge success of his 2007 book “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” where Hitchens used this phrase to discredit religion (successfully capturing the mood of the time) the idea of it being called “Hitchens’ Razor” soon caught on and gained popularity. One of its earliest appearances, though, was in 1704, by one Johann Georg Pritius; a German Bible scholar and theologian writing in Latin. What he wrote may be translated as *“How can you prove it, (Artemon)? Because you asserted it without cause, therefore also it may be denied without cause.”*
The problem is that no matter how we regard Christopher Hitchens as a rhetorician, the context he used it in was very much a polemic (against the late Catholic aid worker Mother Theresa) and because both science and the justice system hold that dispassion is at the core of their intentions, Tarzwell's Razor (*”High emotion leads to high bias”.; or ”Where there is passion the truth cannot be trusted.”*) counters his usage somewhat.
While a philosophical razor can be a useful mental shortcut that allows you to make decisions and solve problems quickly and easily, it is not an unbreakable law or rule, and Hitchens’ Razor can’t really be used to prove or defend a conclusion. Many people try to use it to say that an argument disproving some claim needs to have ironclad proof in order to dismiss that claim, but that’s the exact opposite of what this principle is stating.
Let’s take this example. "I have a pain in my leg". The evidence comes in the fact that I’m experiencing pain in my leg. The medical professional examining me obviously isn’t experiencing the pain, so to them it doesn’t exist as evidence. However, being (presumably) human and a medical professional, they do possess the knowledge that pain exists, so without examination they can’t say I don’t have any pain.
Hitchens’ Razor in this event would be used to prevent them from giving me a full body scan on the first examination, choosing instead to first determine by sight whether I have a broken bone, swelling or bruise on my leg. It isn’t being used at this particular time in the process to suggest the pain is psychosomatic, greatly exaggerated or that I’m lying about it. Instead, it should be used to conclude for now that the pain is non-physical, and further examination is needed.
Because we can have non-physical evidence for the existence of something, this is called “Swinburne’s Principle of Credulity”. The principle of credulity states that *”If it seems to a subject that X is present, then probably X is present.”* Again, this is only a razor and comes with its own set of flaws.
Reddit, as you would expect, takes Hitchens’ Razor Very Seriously Indeed™[4] and debates can be found[5] in many different subreddits[6].
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/religion/comments/t0e4sk/human_decency_and_morality_is_not_derived_from/
r/ChristopherHitchens is a subreddit dedicated to the life and works of Christopher Hitchens.
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi8q57/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhia1a3/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho69q8/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcm6su/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icg6kj3/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 14/06/2022 at 21:19 UTC*
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Hume's Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor[1] that reads ”If a cause isn’t able to produce the observed effect, we must eliminate it or show what needs to be added to create the effect.”[2].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that causes must be sufficiently able to produce the effect assigned to them; for example, a fallen power line isn’t enough to cause a national blackout.
While a philosophical razor can be a useful mental shortcut that allows you to make decisions and solve problems quickly and easily, it is not an unbreakable law or rule[3].
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/geb4fe/why_isnt_the_burden_of_proof_considered_a/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi8q57/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhia1a3/
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/
