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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
Popper's Falsifiability Principle
Puns and Pop-Culture References
Comment by llamageddon01 at 17/06/2022 at 16:33 UTC
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Oh dear. You got here, then. I suppose this day had to come. Ok, here we go. r/Confession is a place to admit your wrongdoings, acknowledge your guilt, and alleviate your conscience, and in January 2018, a Redditor did just that in the infamous “Poop Knife” post[1]. The original post was deleted but the comments remain[2] for ~~posterior~~ posterity.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/
Incredibly, you should know that the ‘poop knife’ is now an actual thing[3]. Complete with other related merch. You thought you’d seen it all? You have now.
3: https://www.originalpoopknife.com
Reddit, as you might expect, loves a good story about excrement and if you do too, then r/AskReddit and r/NoStupidQuestions are your dookie destinations[4] with enough poopular tales[5] and stinky surveys[6] for you to read while on the throne[7] no matter how often you go[8].
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ex4z9/why_do_people_read_while_shitting/
That last link references a notorious IAmA from 2011[9] which OP kindly posted a sequel to[10]. Not to be outdone, several years later r/AMA featured a similar tale of woe[11]. Even r/dataisbeautiful has gotten into the act[12] - illustrated, of course.
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jo5at/iama_guy_that_hasnt_pooped_in_the_month_of_august/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jp44z/iama_guy_that_hasnt_pooped_in_the_month_of_august/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/dzheft/i_just_went_two_and_a_half_months_without/
The internet has always been a centre for serious debate and one of its first and longest-standing conflicts was about the correct orientation of a roll of toilet paper[13] with respect to the bathroom wall. Should the roll be either hung *over* the toilet roll holder (with the end piece being away from the wall), or *under* (with the end piece being close to the wall)?
13: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/the-correct-way-to-hang-toilet-paper-according-to-.html
Know Your Meme[14] traces the earliest online reference to June 1997, though the debate itself goes much further back. I was a Prefect in my Junior School in 1969 and one of my duties (heh) was to put new rolls of the very popular San Izal toilet paper[15] in the girls’ toilets every day. I distinctly recall having a debate with the Head Girl who insisted that the piece that hangs down had to be against the wall as that meant the “smooth” side kept cooler, but I disagreed for reasons I can’t recall now.
14: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-great-toilet-paper-debate
15: https://sheffielder.net/2020/04/02/izal-the-invisible-guardian-against-risks-to-health/
Incidentally, it was popular not because of it being toilet paper but because it made very good tracing paper. As toilet paper, it was… terrible. One side was slippery, the other side was scratchy. Similar stuff exists today[16].
Anyway, if she’s reading this now (hello, Susan), can I say I was perfectly justified in my choice as, in 2010, when I was at the grand re-opening of the refurbished Savoy Hotel in London, their toilet rolls were presented on the holders with the end piece neatly folded into a point with a shiny green “Savoy” sticker on to hold it in place, *facing outwards*. Nobody can argue with the Savoy, being the bastion of good manners and “properness” that it is. Ha.
And if that isn’t enough evidence for either Susan or you (heathen) then the original patent by Seth Wheeler, the inventor of perforated toilet paper, clearly shows the paper going up and over the roll[17].
17: https://www.businessinsider.com/patent-shows-right-way-to-hang-toilet-paper-2015-3?r=US&IR=T
Do you want Fatbergs? Because flushable wipes are how you get Fatbergs[18]. If it isn’t human waste or toilet roll, DON’T FLUSH IT, FOLKS! When it says ‘flushable’ on the packet that only means it is capable of being flushed, not that it’s advisable to flush it[19].
18: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HgpCUVyrY1g
r/nosleep is a place for Redditors to share scary stuff, and they absolutely know[20] all about fatbergs[21] and how to make them even worse than reality[22].
20: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/pq18xf/do_you_know_what_a_fatberg_is_part_one/
21: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/preqb9/do_you_know_what_a_fatberg_is_part_two/
22: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/pv4lhb/do_you_know_what_a_fatberg_is_part_three/
In a vain attempt to be a little more serious after the excesses of the links in the first paragraph, here’s the bottom line (heh) on how long you can go without pooping[23] and if you want to know just what’s in the deposit you make at the porcelain bank, Vox digs all the dirt[24] with 9 surprising faecal facts.
23: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-long-can-you-go-without-pooping
24: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7871579/poop-feces
Back to Reddit, and r/ibs takes a look at the Bristol stool scale[25], while r/Parenting is a place you can discuss toilet training[26] with other parents. Finally, let me leave you with a serious post from r/IAmA which discusses the realities of living after bowel cancer[27].
25: https://www.reddit.com/r/ibs/comments/rqdrdn/the_bristol_stool_scale/
27: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/luvt2l/im_a_36yo_who_has_had_bowel_cancer_and_had_2/
r/poop: all things poop and r/ratemypoo: for rating poop. Because of course Reddit needs at least two subs on this (faecal) matter. And r/ToiletPaper.
28: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhconzs/
29: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu337p/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:18 UTC*
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Sometimes you will see a little yellow padlock icon on a post. That means the post has been locked by the moderators and people can't comment on it any more. Some mods will pin a comment to the top of the post about why it was locked, but it isn’t required and some don’t. Subreddits use the padlock in different ways:
Moderators can unlock a padlocked post or comment at any time to open it up for new discussion. If your post on a sub gets locked, you could try modmailing the mods, but there is no guarantee that they will answer or that they will tell you why it was locked. Reddit also automatically locks all posts over 6 months old, and these will show a yellow box icon. Again, this is now an option that mods can turn on or off should they need to.
Padlockmageddon![1] was a “fun” time on Reddit mid 2021 where every OP had their own comments locked on their posts, and you can read not much more about it here[2].
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/pfroqg/new_locked_comments/
r/Locksmith is the place where Locksmiths of Reddit hang out and talk shop, while r/lockpicking is a subreddit dedicated to the sport of lockpicking. r/locksport have a passion for locks and like to share it with other locksport enthusiasts, and r/LockPickingLawyer is for everything related to the LockPickingLawyer YouTube channel.
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho6386/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhuiz8x/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:53 UTC*
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A word posted when the the words “great!”, “super!”, “fantastic!” and other terms used to convey excitement or sudden joy either aren’t enough, not cool enough to use, or maybe even too long to type. It’s a shortening of pogchamp[1]; the name of an emote on Twitch. Incidentally, “Pog” is an initialism of ‘Passionfruit, Orange, Guava’ from the eponymous 90s playground game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game[2]). There was an erroneous idea a while back that Pog originally meant ‘Play(er) of the Game’ which was roundly debunked as that usage came about much later, though that meaning has since stuck around.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamp
2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game
r/POG is a community for people to share their collection of Milkcaps, Pogs, or Slammer Whammers.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:57 UTC*
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In 2020, Reddit announced the testing of a new concept[1] which at first was only available in a few Subreddits[2]. This proved to be popular and for a while, many subreddits had a banner blazing lightning[3] across the top or in their sidebar[4] “advertising” for Reddit Power-ups.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/iicyi1/testing_a_new_concept_with_select_subreddit/
3: https://i.redd.it/4cmzotx93cc91.jpg
4: https://i.redd.it/0r8uzgjc3cc91.jpg
However, in July 2022, it was decided[5] to retire the concept in favour of rolling out some of the benefits across Reddit as a whole, and the official announcement[6] followed shortly after.
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/vt002w/powering_down_powerups/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/vyyne6/changelog_outerspace_gifs_in_comments_fixing_the/
A subreddit’s members could become “patrons” of the subreddit by buying monthly subscription-based power-ups. A subreddit then had access to new features when it met a minimum threshold of power-up subscriptions; our little sub needed 25 per month minimum. When the requisite number of users - known as “Community Heroes” - had powered up a community, some new features were able to be unlocked for everyone to use, provided they were enabled by the mods:
If the monthly power-ups dropped to below 25, the features were removed until we achieved 25 once more; this happened twice to my recollection. We never had more than 26 at any one time but some of the larger subs had hundreds, yet received no extra benefits than we did by just making the threshold.
Our first Community Heroes were our long time lovely friends u/vancityace, u/MasterYoshi5 and u/Vapidmusings, and while the power-ups feature was running, each time they - or any of our subsequent Community Heroes (except the five who chose to remain anonymous) - posted or commented in r/NewToReddit, you would see a ‘Shazam’ style lightning bolt next to their usernames, a bright red frame on their snoo thumbnail on posts and comments, along with a special mention in the Power-up Community Heroes sidebar. We also gave our Community Heroes a choice of user flair. There was a list of all our Community Heroes in our sidebar and I would give them all a hug if I could for supporting our little help sub at the time.
Paying Premium users were given one free power-up per month, and anyone else had to purchase a power-up subscription for $4.99 a month by clicking the "Become a Hero" button on the sidebar. If a paying Premium user wanted to power-up multiple subreddits, they had to buy a separate power-up subscription for each additional subreddit.
Power-up Heroes ware not committed to keep powering up the subreddit they first chose. They could move their monthly power-up to a different subreddit by going to their settings and selecting the Premium tab: https://new.reddit.com/settings/premium[7] where they could see the option to manage power-ups at the bottom.
7: https://new.reddit.com/settings/premium
Before considering becoming a Community Hero, it was important to understand the following from https://www.redditinc.com/policies/previews-terms[8] :
8: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/previews-terms
More information is available here:
Before giving any money to Reddit, please familiarise yourself with the full Reddit Premium and Virtual Goods agreement[12].
9: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403699823629-Powerups
10: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403386953108-What-are-Powerups-
11: https://www.reddit.com/powerups
12: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/premium-and-virtual-goods-agreement
If a user was considering purchasing power-ups for us or any other community, I suggested they might want to think about buying Reddit Premium at $5.99 a month instead. That is $1 extra each month but came with a monthly power-up and many other benefits too[13]. Reddit Premium members use Reddit free of adverts, get 700 Reddit Coins a month (plus first-time subscribers get an extra 1,000 Reddit Coins just for signing up), exclusive items for dressing-up your Snoovatar, exclusive awards, custom app icons, and access to the lovely r/lounge.
13: https://www.reddit.com/premium
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/i3mwkrw/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hid465l/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwts1/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsj6n6/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:19 UTC*
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A Parent Comment is a direct response made to a Post. Also known as Top-Level Comments. There may be many Parent Comments made on any one post, and any follow-up comments in response are known as Child Comments. Parent comments are also known as ‘threads’. You can see what these both look like from the illustration here[1].
1: https://imgur.com/a/DE7DiaL
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9sqcti/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:41 UTC*
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Your question seems to be about having problems logging in with your password. If you have simply forgotten your password, you can find that information here in our FAQ[3]. If you think your account has been hijacked, please refer to this thread: Is your Reddit password invalid? Your account might have been hijacked[4]. If you are being told that the password on a brand-new account is invalid, you need to contact the Reddit admins. For all other questions regarding passwords and logging in, contact the Reddit admins by emailing contact@reddit.com, via this support request form[5] or using this old modmail link[6].
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/m0pc2i/question_about_reddit_accounts/gq92yiw/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/49x3ik/is_your_reddit_password_invalid_has_your_verified/
5: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?
6: https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Freddit.com
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:42 UTC*
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Linking to news articles to back up your point is commendable, but not when they’re behind a paywall[1], a regional block or other block[2]. Try not to link to a paywalled article on Reddit; it really won’t end well. Nevertheless, you’re bound to find one sometime in your Redditing, so here are some ways of potentially dealing with them.
1: https://stackdiary.com/how-to-bypass-paywalls/
Please bear in mind here that all my Redditing is done on an iPad Pro, either via the official app or using a Safari web browser, so your experience might be slightly different. *Not all of these may work; I haven’t tried all of them.*
Sometimes on Google results, you’ll see a three dots “kebab” post-overflow menu[3]. Tapping this will bring up a pop-up menu where you can see three options. Selecting the final “cache” option will open a page that looks like this[4] where if the page still won’t load, selecting the “Text-Only Version” option at the top of the page usually works.
3: https://i.redd.it/7zo2qmmewsz81.jpg
4: https://i.redd.it/03riot4uysz81.jpg
r/LifeProTips and r/lifehacks are essential subreddits for all those little things that make a big difference in our lives, and this is a subject[5] that comes up often on both subreddits[6]. r/YouShouldKnow also tackles this topic[7] from time to time.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/pvu8e9/get_around_paywalls/
Using the Reader View in your browser to block the paywall popup is one method and one Redditor provided links to instructions for Firefox, Chrome and Safari[8] here.
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/djpvj4/lpt_used_all_of_your_free_articles_on_a/
Websites recommended to me are:
The first is the most reliable in my experience, but it relies on Google Cache so if the article hasn’t been indexed by Google, it might not work. There have been others in the past but were either often down or grew lists of URLs that they didn’t support which defeated their purpose.
11: https://www.printfriendly.com
Two tips I���ve been given are:
However, I’ve not tried the first and I don’t use Quora so again, YMMV.
There are plenty of browser extensions for bypassing paywalls for the main web clients; Google (or your favourite alternative) and YouTube will be your friends here. Neither I, this subreddit nor Reddit itself endorse any particular methods on this matter.
r/lifehacks and r/LifeProTips aim to improve your life in one way or another; r/shittylifehacks and r/ShittyLifeProTips certainly don’t, and r/unethicallifehacks and r/UnethicalLifeProTips might land you in real trouble.
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjoibi/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh9bf9f/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu3vv6/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcybsb/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:43 UTC*
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Wikipedia[1] says “A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with ...precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.” In other words, *The Average Redditor*™[2]. Since the onset of the Internet, it seems that every user somewhere is trying to either outdo, derail or discredit other users by employing some form of pedantry as their weapon of choice, often in grammar or usage due to their errors being relatively easy to spot.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant
2: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pedantic
Because the likelihood of making an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster, it is often the case that the user making the correction will actually get something within their own pedantry wrong; so much so that the phenomenon has inspired three Internet Adages[3]:
3: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eponymous_laws
4: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skitts%20Law
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_McKean
There are more variations on this theme[7]. There will be even more.
7: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/breaking-muphrys-law/
It has been said that Reddit has the most unprecedentedly dense concentration of pedantry that has ever existed in the history of humanity[8] and if those comments don’t prove it, nothing will.
Having said that, r/bestof is a sub that catalogues the very best comments on Reddit as submitted by the users of Reddit, and a debate about whether Reddit’s pedantry[9] is worse than anywhere else on the internet concludes that it really isn’t. Ah, Reddit; never change…
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/8v3hlt/umritopmd_loses_patience_with_reddit_pedantry/
And because Reddit *will* never change, we have memes about pedants[10]! The most well known one is the “Reaction” meme Ackchyually / Actually Guy[11].
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ltsgbq/ackshually/
11: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy
For our second example, here’s an innocuous phrase that is not quite how it appears. This is another of Reddit’s beloved pop-culture references, this time originating from Futurama S02E14[13]. And here’s a typical Reddit example[14] of it in action!
13: https://youtu.be/hou0lU8WMgo
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/36m7dh/just_a_turtle_eating_pancakes/crfacnb/?context=3
Pedantry is found all over Reddit; share your instances at r/GrammarNazi, r/pedant, r/pedantic or r/Pedantry, while r/ackchyually is the one place for all your favourite ackchyually meme needs, and r/futurama welcomes you to the wooorld of tomorrowww.
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhipt1/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/3
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjjeme/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjjifk/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjjmk8/
20: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
21: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icg6kj3/
23: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1l7j/
24: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1npp/
25: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1r7e/
26: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhukmzu/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:44 UTC*
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Also known as Suspended. A ban from a Subreddit or sitewide that is permanent. Mods can permaban you from their subs but only Admin can permaban you sitewide from Reddit.
There is a school of thought that Permanent bans on Reddit aren’t truly permanent[1] but they are only valid for around 100 days as this is how long Reddit keeps your information on file for after logging in for the last time.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/uakeb0/so_my_account_got_suspended/
This page from the Reddit privacy policy[2] appears to confirm this theory in the section “Information We Collect Automatically”, but if you read it carefully, it says: **”Except for the IP address used to create your account**, Reddit will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.”
2: https://i.redd.it/htu357f41a291.png
There really is a lot of confusion[3] over how Reddit permanently suspends a user and about what can be done[4] if it happens, but ultimately only Admin know how it’s done and I haven’t been able to find any Admin comment on this whatsoever, so it’s staying secret.
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/o2npiw/how_do_i_get_rid_of_a_reddit_ip_ban/
As ageeing to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy is essentially signing a legal binding contract with Reddit, may I suggest you familiarise yourself with it once again:
https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8kb0q/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8m9e9/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhqe4t/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:45 UTC*
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“Personal Gender Pronoun”. Some Redditors indicate on their Profile Page the set of third-person pronouns that they want others to use in order to reflect their gender identity; for example, "she/her/hers", "he/him/his", or "they/them/theirs". In some specialised subreddits you might be asked your PGP to avoid accidental insult.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 20/10/2021 at 11:47 UTC*
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Also known as a Tag or Username Ping, this is simply mentioning another user in a comment anywhere on Reddit, using the u/ tag. For instance, typing u/llamageddon01 will send me a message and a link saying I was mentioned in that comment. If you're the subject of a conversation in the comments of a post you could get pinged quite a lot, so to avoid this, most people will refer to you as OP instead.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhldwpq/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhpzxry/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcwdbk/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:51 UTC*
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No doubt you will have been asked to read, or have even seen “pinned” posts[1] when you enter a subreddit. These are posts that a moderator (or even admin) has fixed to the top of a subreddit page, usually containing essential information on that subreddit. If you see a pinned post, always read it before posting or commenting on a sub. You should know that you will not see pinned posts if you Sort by ‘New’ or ‘Rising’.
1: https://i.redd.it/3vnu3pnh1n191.jpg
As you can see from the screenshot, we have two here on r/NewToReddit: our general guide **Reddit and Karma Explained**[2] and our weekly Chat post. Pinned posts will have a lime green ‘pin’ icon and will show on top when you sort the Subreddit by ‘Hot’ or ‘Top”. Posts pinned in this way are also referred to as “sticky” or “stickied” posts.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/
You can also pin posts to your profile page, so that they’ll be the first thing anyone sees on accessing your profile. You can see how this looks on a browser page[3] and here on the app[4]. If you’re an App user, you’ll need to open up your profile page in a web browser to pin posts.
3: https://i.redd.it/k5om95v50n191.jpg
4: https://i.redd.it/b07ng4cf0n191.jpg
5: https://i.redd.it/j3i1aksfawr81.jpg
6: https://i.redd.it/7lxhn8h7qo191.jpg
Subreddits and profiles alike can only ever have two pinned posts at any one time, but these can be unpinned or re-pinned at will (by the mods of the sub or by you on your profile) and replaced with other posts at any time.
As the word “pin” has different associations, I would be remiss in not mentioning r/EnamelPins - a sub to and share Hat Pins, Lapel Pins, Pin Badges etc., r/Pins - including a resource on how to collect, trade, design and make your own lapel pins, r/pinprojects - aka The Craft & Enamel Pins Projects Subreddit, and r/PinCollecting - they really like pins. Meanwhile, talking of “sticky”, r/recipes have the definitive list of best sticky toffee pudding[7] recipes. Oh yeah.
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/recipes/comments/1y8sva/give_me_your_best_sticky_toffee_pudding_recipe/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhjoibi/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx2f0/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:52 UTC*
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An Eponymous Law named for a user calling himself "Nathan Poe" on a Christian forum in 2005. Basically, it claims that no matter how hard you try to be sarcastic or make a parody, some people will still think you were serious.
Poe, an agnostic, was engaging with some creationists about the origins of everything. However, the Internet has always been the Internet and there were other users who were not creationists but were instead having fun writing satirical posts on the topic. The problem was that the satire was so good it became hard to tell which posts were sincerely defending creationism and which were just trolling.
Poe then called the phenomenon “Poe’s Law”[1] stating “Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is uttrerly [sic] impossible[2] to parody a Creationist in such a way that *someone* won't mistake for the genuine article.”
2: https://i.redd.it/8m20poikaa291.jpg
Over time, this has been expanded to encompass any kind of extremism where parody and reality are indistinguishable from each other[3]. Poe was not the first to notice this phenomenon. In 1983, user “Jerry Schwarz” on a Usenet group[4] posted: "If you submit a satiric item without this symbol - a sideways smile, :-) - no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously."
3: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Poe%27s_Law_examples
4: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poes-law
Unfortunately, a form of “meta-trolling” has emerged where people deliberately post something offensive and when called out on it, hide behind Poe’s Law[5] claiming that their offending statement had been a joke and that the reader is just being hypersensitive, when it clearly wasn’t and the reader really isn’t.
5: https://www.wired.com/2017/06/poes-law-troll-cultures-central-rule/
r/AteTheOnion is a glorious repository of people falling for satire, and r/poeslawinaction, now sadly defunct, also collected notable examples.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhijqk/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icg6kj3/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhuk3gs/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:54 UTC*
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A word with two very different and distinct meanings on Reddit. Many Subreddits with the "Porn" suffix are focused on collecting media of the best or highest quality and not in the slightest bit NSFW. r/sfwpornnetwork[1] will be your starting point here. Link for those who would prefer to avoid visiting subreddits with the word "porn" in their titles[2]. Unfortunately, neither of these lists are remotely up to date.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/sfwpornnetwork/wiki/network
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoSillySuffix/wiki/index
For the second meaning there is r/NSFW411. NSFW, obviously. You do have an NSFW filter at your disposal (the Settings option in your profile) should you wish. You cannot enter a sub (or profile) marked NSFW without going through a warning screen first.
Don’t say I’m not good to you (NSFW)[3].
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/nsfw/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssh6c/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:54 UTC*
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A Reddit Post is the broad term for any content shared on Reddit, whether it is a story, link, image, gif, poll or video that is made in a subreddit for others to comment on. Always read the rules before posting on an unfamiliar Subreddit. The main entry on posting is Participating on Reddit: Posting[1].
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ss4vt/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:55 UTC*
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Some subreddits give you the option - or even require you - to add a Post Flair when posting. There will be a drop-down menu of the choices available to you when you submit your post. This is to help people quickly scan posts and see what they are about, because if you click the Post Flair, you should be able to see ALL the posts that have been tagged with that same flair. In effect, it helps organize the subreddit into topics.
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:56 UTC*
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When you go to make a Post (‘Create Post’ pencil on paper icon or the ‘+’ tab bottom centre on mobile) from the front page of a Subreddit, you are given 5 options: Link, Image, Video, Text, and Poll. You can either upload your own image from your device or use Imgur’s “share” link (more on this below). The option you choose will then talk you through the steps.
Please note that some communities don't have image posting enabled, and those options will be greyed out. You also should be aware that there are certain domains that Reddit have blacklisted and any links to them will automatically get removed as they're not approved for use on the site.
NSFW subreddits and profiles are not allowed to use Reddit's native image and video uploader, and must host videos elsewhere and make link posts.
If you’re on mobile and have problems uploading an image, try going to Settings --> App --> Reddit and allow permissions for files and media.
Reddit's image hosting is a bit weird at times. Sometimes you can directly upload your image through the "image" tab in the uploader, but other times you're required to use the "link" tab and use that to upload your image to the sub. Most people use Imgur for this as it’s preferred by Reddit. It’s easy to use and you don’t need an account there. Just head on over to https://imgur.com[1], upload your photo and post it as "hidden". Then copy the image’s direct link and paste it into the "link" tab of the upload section of the post and voilà, your image will be uploaded!
Don't use the "copy link" which shows once the upload is completed, instead do a right click and click "copy image location". The result is much better, especially for mobile users, as seen in these examples:
With copy link: https://imgur.com/225EVr4[2] With copy image location: https://i.imgur.com/225EVr4.jpg[3]
3: https://i.imgur.com/225EVr4.jpg
There are more details and instructions on our sister sub here
This is a simple explanation[4] of how to post pictures on Reddit. There’s another one here too[5]. There are also a number of guides on Quora[6] and Google led me to this YouTube video[7] which is short but to the point.
4: https://imgur.com/a/ZFcg0Fn
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7az5gp/posting_images/
6: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-add-a-picture-to-a-post-on-Reddit
7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5hrXIiRSeY
There are details and instructions on creating a gallery post on our sister sub here[8].
To post an Image Gallery on Reddit, all you have to do is visit the community you want to post in, and then follow the steps below:
1. Tap on the “Create Post” button, and select the ‘Image Post’ option from the tabs.
2. Select up to 20 images or GIFs, and rearrange to your liking.
3. Include a post title, add an optional caption (up to 180 characters), or URL, for each image or GIF.
4. Tap ‘post.’
Note: You can also apply a ‘Spoiler’ or ‘Not Safe For Work’ tag to Image Galleries if you need to. Again, Image Galleries may not be available in all communities.
For GIFs/MP4s people use https://gfycat.com/upload[9] and will make a link post to the URL of what they uploaded.
If your subreddit is NSFW or private, images and videos on it must be hosted on an external site (like Imgur), as they can’t be hosted on Reddit[10]. However, an NSFW account might be able to use the mobile app to post images, but not the desktop browser[11].
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/i03jfz/how_can_i_allow_video_posts_on_my_subreddit/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/s5v43z/upload_images_in_my_community/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleayp/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhp7iml/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ss4vt/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:56 UTC*
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A phrase used in an apology for, or accusation of an image or video being pixelated, blurry or other forms of very low quality. The exact origin of this usage is unclear but is generally credited to a comment on a YouTube video from 2008 which asked “did you record this with a potato?”. However, B3ta[1] and other digital art and meme communities have referred to the well known image-altering software as “potatoshop” long before that[2].
1: https://b3ta.com/challenge/PhotoshopUK/
2: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=potatoshop
An interesting discussion which brought up several anecdotes of people using the word “potato” to mean poor quality over the years went on here[3], again with no real conclusion for the origin of today’s usage.
The phrase has become a Snowclone[4] as internet communities dealing with audio or video often use the disclaimer “recorded with a toaster” or another contextually absurd object such as a calculator or microwave to acknowledge they know the quality is lower than they would ideally like.
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu0ve1/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:58 UTC*
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As you already know, every subreddit has its own rules, post format, karma requirements and moderators all totally unique to that community, and very few subreddits will tell you their minimum karma level basically to avoid spammers, throwaway troll accounts or low-quality participants. It doesn’t take much for an idiot to make it vital for both Reddit and subreddit mods to tighten our overall criteria which in turn makes us feel impenetrable to the new user. The system isn’t fun to be caught in or fun to enforce, but because people suck and are spoiling the fun for others, we can’t tell from the onset who’s going to do that or who’s going to be an asset to the community.
Think of it this way: because one bad egg once ruined the omelette, we now have to crack each egg open and examine it individually before allowing it into the mix.
Mods are increasingly using tactics[1] to remove shills and low-quality participants from their subs before they can start their mayhem, but another problem that some mods increasingly face in today’s divisive political and social climate is “Brigading” - where people from a particular sub go to post on another sub that they do not usually frequent in a deliberately disruptive manner without intending any form of meaningful contribution.
Individuals brigading are generally not there for discussion. They're there to shout down others, belittle and attack, and for a mod who’s subreddit has a specific ideological alignment where they see someone making trouble whose posting history suggests an opposing viewpoint, it’s not unreasonable to make the leap that maybe that person is just there to make trouble. This has become such a problem for some subs, they are having to implement preemptive banning[2] to try and “cut it off at the pass”.
Most people would agree that these measures are justified if the user is normally posting to a sub that's for nothing but trolling, or their history suggests they’re in the sub with deliberate intent of acting in bad faith. A serious socio-political history sub doesn't need the "alternative viewpoint" of a regular contributor to a sub dedicated to holocaust denial, for example, and it’s fair to say that it’s better to just deny some people access before they come in and start making waves of untreated sewage in their lovely clear pool. The problem is that defining “some people” isn’t always obvious[3].
It’s a problem with no clear solution, so the best way to guard against a preemptive ban is not to do anything that will warrant one in the first place - although sometimes again, it’s not so obvious[4] as that, especially as you won’t often know if one subreddit has another on their blacklist.
Whether this is fair or unfair can be debated in subs like r/TheoryOfReddit, r/RedditCensors, r/ModsAreKillingReddit, r/loligotbanned4this and the many other subs that exist to discuss or complain about Reddit. Reddit loves being meta, and it doesn’t get much more meta than complaining in the very place you’re complaining about. Be mindful that there are subreddits that have these types of sub on their blacklist and will ban you just for posting in them, so you might want to consider using an Alt for such complaining.
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhh2z2/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh8m9e9/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhqe4t/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsn0v/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwvwq/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhui9rj/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:59 UTC*
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Pay monthly to support Reddit https://www.reddit.com/premium[1] and get ad-free browsing and exclusive stuff for your Redditing. Small periods of Reddit Premium (with a smaller range of exclusive stuff) can be gifted to other Redditors by giving certain Awards. You get a Trophy on your Profile and a shield next to your Profile name when you have Premium Reddit, and your Snoovatar acquires a golden glow[2] with little sparkles rising from it. Buying or being gifted Premium also entitles you to access certain private subreddits for the duration of your premium time.
1: https://www.reddit.com/premium
2: https://i.redd.it/slcy3jw9j1d81.jpg
Any time you’re not sure when your premium time will end, go to your profile (press on your Snoo), and a menu will drop down: "my profile", "coins", etc. Under the heading that says “Reddit Premium” it will say “valid until X” where X is the final premium day. Alternatively, this link to your profile on “Old Reddit” should have this info on the top right hand side:
https://old.reddit.com/user/me/
If you are experiencing issues with a Reddit Premium subscription or Coin purchase, please reach out to Reddit directly through the contact form linked below where they can better assist you. Just choose "Premium/Coins/Awards/Powerups Support" from the dropdown menu:
https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Before giving any money to Reddit, please familiarise yourself with the Reddit Premium and Virtual Goods agreement[3].
3: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/reddit-premium-and-virtual-goods-agreement-october-15-2020
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhjybg/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhisew6/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwo3k/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwyx6/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx2f0/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu4tdu/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 14:59 UTC*
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Reddit is very private and very public all at the same time. Be very careful what you share here. Anyone can go to your profile (by clicking on your name) and see your previous posts and comments. Reddit is open to anyone to read; you don’t have to join or be a member to see the vast majority of things posted here which makes it a tempting target for other internet outlets craving for new content. Reddit is not immune to search engines like other social media; it’s a paradox as we can be an extremely supportive place and very conducive to openness, but Reddit is also very “googleable” and for the more determined person, even posts that you may delete can be resurrected[1].
1: https://marketedly.com/read-deleted-reddit-comments-posts/
There are also websites that archive old or deleted Reddit posts, and as Reddit supports an API to access data, people have built tools using that API to make scraping data easier. https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/[2].
2: https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Some Subreddits and Reddit Campaigns because of their nature require you to relinquish some degree of privacy. For instance, r/secretsanta and the now defunct redditgifts.com were started in 2009 to provide a Secret Santa exchange for the Reddit community, performing many gift exchanges over the years until it was discontinued in 2021[3].
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts/
While that’s now gone, there are still many subreddits where gift exchanges, financial assistance and random acts of charity are performed where you’ll have to give your personal details out to participate. You should always check the rules[4] and information of the Subreddit or Campaign in question to see how comfortable you are with their levels of security before making a commitment.
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnToReddit/comments/pjsazs/finding_a_subreddits_rules/
You might also come across Redditors on your travels that you mutually feel you want RL interactions with, and in such cases make sure any personal traceable stuff (eMail, real names etc) is only shared in private messages with them.
If you believe a person or group of people are following you around Reddit with the express intention of downvoting, negatively commenting or generally harassing you, this action is called “Brigading”, and is a serious offence on Reddit. Proving it, however, is not so easy, and your best course of action here is simply to ignore it. Redditors generally forget personal vendettas quite quickly when they aren’t fun (i.e. not provoking a response) anymore.
Brigading is also when a group of users "invade" a specific subreddit and flood it with down / upvotes in order to damage karma dynamics on the targeted sub. This is easier to prove, and as Reddit regards this as being Content or Vote Manipulation[5], anyone who is attempting to incite a brigade will be banned. Anyone participating in a brigade is also liable to be banned. See Reddit’s Content Policy[6]. You should also see the related link in the **See Also:** section at the end of this entry.
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhujb0m/
6: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy
Harassment is the action of repeatedly messaging users on or off of Reddit, pinging them repeatedly, or following them around and commenting on everything that they say either in a passive-aggressive manner or outright maliciousness. Anyone who deliberately pings the subject of a post where the usernames are blocked out will be banned. If you believe you are being unfairly targeted in this way, you need to collect the links as evidence and report it directly to Reddit at either:
I recommend everyone familiarise themselves with Reddit’s Policy on Harassment & Bullying[9].
7: https://www.reddithelp.com/
8: https://www.reddit.com/contact/
9: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043071072-Do-not-threaten-harass-or-bully
To ‘dox’ someone means to release their personal or private information that may prove harmful or embarrassing. This can happen in the real world, but the internet has made it easier both to find and release this information to a wide audience. Doxxing may reveal someone's personal information like their home address or workplace, social security or phone number, private correspondence or pictures, criminal history, IP address, or other details. Some people fail to realize that information they share on social media or other sites may be “scraped” and used against them, potentially opening themselves up to unwelcome public disclosure, identity theft, cyberbullying, stalking, or threats to their personal safety.
Harassers and stalkers use several tools and techniques to gather information about their targets, but since these are mostly public and easy to use, we can also use them ourselves, on ourselves, as a preventative measure[10]. You should also see the link on Doxxing in the **See Also:** section at the end of this entry.
10: https://guides.accessnow.org/self-doxing.html#self-doxing-to-prevent-doxing
You can request a copy of your Reddit data and information, including IP Address Logs, and an archive of all your posts including deleted ones.
You should also familiarise yourself with Reddit’s Official Privacy Policy[12].
11: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
12: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy
One of our lovely helpful users wrote a guide[13] on whether to be anonymous on Reddit or not which is well worth a read, and one of their suggestions was to use r/PowerDeleteSuite to wipe all your account clean. They describe it as this:
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/ppocu4/reddit_to_be_anonymous_or_not/
I have been given to believe that there is an addon for Chrome that lets you delete bulk comments, and that some of the third-party Reddit clients can do so too. I have not tried any of the above so cannot vouch for their effectiveness.
Finally, everyone deserves basic respect both online and in real life. Reddit is no exception. https://www.antibullyingpro.com/dont-face-it-alone[14].
14: https://www.antibullyingpro.com/dont-face-it-alone
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhhpap/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhrmz2/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsn0v/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhia8yc/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhifs24/
20: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiqskr/
21: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhldwpq/
22: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhpzoz9/
23: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx2f0/
24: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsk313/
25: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhskacx/
26: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssyt6/
27: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcx6bt/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 15:00 UTC*
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It is rumoured that there are secret places in Reddit shrouded in intrigue, hidden from all but a select few. Subreddits only open to a certain elite. Subreddits cloaked in mystery and only spoken of by tantalising whispers in darkened rooms. Subs you don’t find but rather you are found by them and invited into when you least expect it. Is this true? Do such clandestine places exist, lurking in the shadows and hidden corners of Reddit’s bright and hallowed halls?
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/privates
Ok, it isn’t up to date and not nearly complete, but it gives you some idea of what surprises you might find in your inbox one day.
Certain private subs have set rules that govern admittance, and getting invited to one usually depends on the reason it exists, perhaps because you have won particular Reddit awards or achieved a Reddit milestone. One such example is r/CentennialClub once you have 100k comment karma. There are also subs accessible only to Premium subscribers; more information here[2].
2: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043034632-Premium-Only-Subreddits
Bots roam Reddit to find and invite qualifying people to private subs. You might even be noticed from a larger sub to join one for a specific topic, or you might hear about one randomly. Clicking on a private subreddit will bring up a page like this[3] (screenshot taken during the short while that sub went private in mid 2022) where you may get one or more of the options *Request to Join; Message Mods; Browse Reddit.*
3: https://i.redd.it/eeo9y32co1z81.jpg
To request access to a private subreddit you know the name of and think you qualify for, paste the following link into a browser which will send a message to all the moderators of the subreddit. Replace XYZ with the sub name:
https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/XYZ
If they approve your request, you will get a private message from them in your Inbox -> Messages with an invite link from any of the moderators of the private subreddit.
There’s an old but still relevant discussion on ELI5[4] that tells you a little more about private subs.
As you know, all the posts or comments you make on Reddit can be seen by anyone on your Profile History. However, any posts or comments you make in a private sub can only be seen by someone else if they are also a member of that same private sub. Private subreddits aren’t googleable either, nor are any contributions to them eligible for consideration in statistical analysis tools such as r/RedditMetis. You can crosspost into a private sub (if it allows crossposting) but you can’t crosspost out of one.
You should note that Reddit Admins can see inside of private subreddits regardless of whether they've been approved as users or not.
The main types of subreddits are detailed here[5], and whether you mod a sub or not, r/modguide have a very interesting post[6] on some of the differences between private, restricted, or public subreddits.
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/dt2qgr/private_restricted_or_public_subreddits/
The screenshot linked above showed a public subreddit that temporarily went private, and in the entry on Brigading[7], I gave an example of a subreddit going private without any notice:
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhsn0v/
8: https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-interview
This is something that happens on Reddit from time to time for various reasons, and is usually only temporary. Recent incidents where many subreddits turned private to make a statement included a protest against Covid misinformation[10] and shortly before that, a protest against a controversial employee[11].
This is not quite the same as the intentionally private subreddits, as in these instances, nobody except the moderating team (and admin) could see inside the subs; not even the regular members, and applications to join were not accepted.
There are some private subs with weird letter or number combinations for names that invite random people in from time to time. They don’t appear to have rules, or the ones they do have are so arcane they’re incomprehensible, as are their posts. Quite honestly, it’s really unsettling when you get an invite to one because they’re just *that* strange.
The reassuring news is that many of these remain from a long-forgotten April Fools event from some time ago but their bots still roam Reddit, waiting for that random trigger. Some of these subs are even still active - but with the only recent activity being from bewildered Redditors wondering where they are and why they’re there.
These legacy subs shouldn’t be confused with subs you might find with names in the format *a:t5_3akbn*[12] as these are dormant subs[13] that have been removed.
There are also places like this[14] which appear to defy anyone’s theories of what they are actually for.
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2q04qk/comment/cn1w50r/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhsj6n6/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 15:01 UTC*
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Your “home page” that everyone sees when they click on your username. Part of your “Settings” menu and at https://www.reddit.com/settings/profile[1]. Your profile is always public, though you can disable the option that shows subs you have recently been active in, and you can set your profile to NSFW. Your post and comment history, however, is there for all to see and cannot be hidden.
1: https://www.reddit.com/settings/profile
Posts to your profile can appear in r/all and your profile can be discovered in /users. Posting directly to your profile is optional. If you choose not to post to your profile you will not have a need for moderation tools, but those who might wish to use their profile page as a personal blog/subreddit are advised to look at the Profile Moderation Page link in Settings --> Profile.
There’s more detailed information on this here: Profile Page[2].
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhhpap/
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhia8yc/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhldwpq/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhpzoz9/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwvwq/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqx4j1/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssyt6/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcx6bt/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 15:02 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
All Redditors have a Profile Page linked to their username, and this basically works as a personal Subreddit where you can invite others to post or comment if you so wish. If you have Followers, posts to this page will come up on their home feed in the same way posts from any other sub they joined does. You can add links to certain other socials; indicate your Personal Gender Pronoun you might wish others to use; put a little bio of yourself or a favourite phrase or motto on it for everyone to see. You can also control your banner and avatar images, change your display name, and mark your profile as Not Safe for Work (NSFW). If you’d rather not have your profile be easily discovered on Reddit, you can choose to hide your posts from r/all and /users. If you’d rather people not know what communities you’re most active in, you can choose to hide that information from your profile, but you should know they can still see posts and comments you make in public subreddits and private ones if they’re joined there too. In reality, people very rarely look at profiles of other Redditors.
Whatever you want it to be! Many Redditors don’t use it at all. The Redditor u/Shitty_Watercolour uses their Profile Page as a (fabulous) showcase; others may want to use it like a diary or blog; others might only use it as a place for uploading pictures to link to, or you might even use it for testing stuff - like practicing Markdown Text, for example - as you can post and delete to your heart’s content there. Redditors like the good folks at r/AwardBonanza will pin a post to their profile to collect the awards that they trade. The entry Pinned Posts[1] will show you how to do this and the entry award-cost-bot[2] will tell you why. Only you will be able to submit content to your page. Out of interest, you might like to see Reddit’s Media Guidelines[3] for profiles of companies or corporations.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqw1wn/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhjawo/
3: https://www.redditinc.com/assets/images/site/Reddit-Profiles_Best-Practices_Media-Hub.pdf
Those who might wish to use their profile page as a personal blog/subreddit are advised to look at the Profile Moderation Page link at the bottom of https://www.reddit.com/settings/profile[4]. You can access your profile moderation tools on the web by going to your profile, clicking Other Options, and selecting Profile Moderation.
4: https://www.reddit.com/settings/profile
Profile moderation tools are currently unavailable on mobile, but you can access them on a browser by going to this link: https://new.reddit.com/user/me/about/edit/moderation[5]. If the link doesn’t work, substitute your own username for “me”. This will bring you to a page that looks like this[6]. Just like a subreddit, the same Mod Guidelines[7] and Content Policy[8] applies to posts and conversations on your profile, so make sure you’re familiar with them before using your profile page.
5: https://new.reddit.com/user/me/about/edit/moderation
6: https://i.redd.it/td4hdw0dav191.png
7: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines-for-healthy-communities
8: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy
You have a customisable profile, an avatar, a blog page, links to your socials…. so is Reddit a social media site or not? The debate is real[9].
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/2j5dze/is_reddit_considered_social_media/
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhix7s/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhj0ui/
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhjybg/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhirmki/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hha6pp2/
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/i8au48u/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcmerj/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqw1wn/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwvwq/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhcx6bt/
Comment by llamageddon01 at 23/10/2021 at 15:02 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
“Public Service Announcement”. In my younger and more vulnerable years, a Redditor gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. So, here’s a llama PSA of some essential tips for safe early Redditing I wish I’d known about when I first joined:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnToReddit/comments/pjsazs/finding_a_subreddits_rules/
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqwr1l/
You might like this parody of old-style newsreels on the history of The Elegant Reddit Upvote[5].
5: https://youtu.be/FHhnxJjJLRA
For those of us in the U.K. of a “certain age”, Public Information Broadcasts[6] were a staple of our viewing, and are often discussed[7] on some of the subreddits[8] about the United Kingdom[9], especially since the wonderful National Archives have made them all available in one glorious collection[10]. Another superb collection of old newsreels can be found here[11].
6: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/the-public-information-films-well-never-forget/p06vh8tr
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/dcafmv/public_information_films/
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/fgiuyn/uk_public_information_films_used_to_be_brutal/
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/65bj0e/the_best_ever_public_information_film_ever/
10: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/view_all_films.htm
11: https://www.britishpathe.com
r/pifsandpsas is for posting, viewing, and discussing public information films (PIFs) and public service announcements (PSAs), and r/PSA is for your Public Service Announcements.
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhle0an/
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh96swb/
14: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhui9rj/
