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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
Comment by llamageddon01 at 19/10/2021 at 17:08 UTC*
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Short for “Janitors”, used on Reddit as a dismissive insult for Mods. r/OutOfTheLoop recently gave an excellent potted history of the word “Jannie”[1], tracing it back to a forum from 1999 called “Something Awful” gone, but not forgotten[2] where their unpaid volunteer moderators (sound familiar?) were called Janitors.
2: https://www.somethingawful.com
Comment by llamageddon01 at 22/10/2021 at 09:16 UTC*
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Every group or subculture has its own specialized terminology, and Reddit is no exception. We have sitewide acronyms, initialisms, terms, memes, slang, references and responses, some of which will be familiar to internet users and many exclusive to Reddit. I’ve tried to list as many as possible throughout this encyclopaedia for your ease of reference so you don’t feel like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.
Some subreddit types have their own dedicated lexicon, particularly those dealing with family, relationship or gender issues; especially some of the more controversial or darker ones.
I have included one or two examples of subreddit jargon throughout this encyclopaedia which occasionally appear in general Reddit, but more definitions will be found in those particular subs. There is one sub, however, which has its own jargon that I haven’t even begun to attempt. r/wallstreetbets (or WSB) uses a combination of financial terminology and its own slang to form a unique language that demands its own lexicon[1]. Some of their more common terms that appear in general Reddit are listed here, but you should go to https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/wiki/glossary[2] for their full definitions.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/wiki/glossary
“Lexical change” refers to a change in the meaning or use of a word, or a generational shift in preference for one word or phrase over another, and one notable example is the internet acronym “LOL”. Internet “generation gaps” mean that some of us actually remember when “lol” meant lots of love[3], and the transition to it meaning “laughing out loud” gave rise to many an awkward situation[4]. And now, it would appear it doesn't really mean "laughing out loud" anymore anyway[5].
3: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/06/lol-favourite-abbreviation
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dflpwc/comment/f33zop8/
5: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katieheaney/the-12-meanings-of-lol
A fun romp down memory lane went on here[6] as one group of Redditors suddenly realised they were “elders”.
Sometimes jargon is co-opted from pop culture, as one Redditor found when asking what the meaning of references to different coloured pills meant[7] in some of the more controversial[8] areas of Reddit.
8: https://qz.com/1092037/the-alt-right-is-creating-its-own-dialect-heres-a-complete-guide/
r/FuckImOld is for those who can't help but think of how everything is old and you just gotta say “Fuck, I’m Old”, while r/nostalgia take pleasure in reminiscing about the good ol' days, and r/OutOfTheLoop is a subreddit to help you keep up to date with what's going on with all kinds of stuff.
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhidypw/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhif00a/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh9bpc9/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hha75nq/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhq07q5/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsjswn/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 22/10/2021 at 09:17 UTC*
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If you find a subreddit about anything you're interested in, make sure to click Join so that new posts in that community will show up in your Home feed. On desktop, you can join a subreddit by clicking +Join in the upper right of a post in your feed. You can also join a sub by clicking or tapping the "Join" button at the top of the page while visiting it. There is no limit to the number of subreddits you can be Joined in, and you are not making any commitment to that community by being Joined. You need never comment or post in that sub or you can Leave and rejoin as many times as you like and nobody will ever know.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 04/05/2022 at 09:16 UTC
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A link or phrase posted when you’ve had enough of a subreddits’ shenanigans that you never want to see that sub in your feed again. r/JustUnsubbed is for sharing the ‘straw that broke the camel's back’ in post form: that post which made you unsubscribe from a subreddit. Read their rules[1] carefully before contributing as they have a blacklist[2] of subs that must be so infuriating you’re not even allowed to mention them.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnToReddit/comments/pjsazs/finding_a_subreddits_rules/
But don’t despair. r/JustUnsubbedAgain is for those who unsubbed from JustUnsubbed because they keep a blacklist of subs you can't talk about, and r/unsubbed is for those times when you unsub from a sub, and you just want to talk to other people about how stupid that sub is. r/justbeenbanned is a sub to post your experience of being unfairly banned, and you’ll find similar subs in the footnotes of my entry Ban[3]. I mean, where better to complain about Reddit than on Reddit itself? Reddit loves being meta.
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8m9e9/
An interesting look at some statistics on the most frequently unsubbed subreddits on justunsubbed[4] found a list of over 700 subreddits, with many having multiple results.
Reddit, as you would expect, has quite a few subreddits where you can get out your strong feelings, not just about Reddit itself but life in general. These include:
Finally, r/undelete keeps track of submissions that moderators remove from the top 100 in r/all. [position in /r/all | score | number of comments].
On a happier note, r/JustSubbed is the place to let everyone know that you joined a sub that was new to you!
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8m9e9/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho8eoe/