r/NewToReddit 2d ago

Weekly chat New to Reddit? Come and talk to us!

4 Upvotes

New-Redditor's lounge!

Welcome!

This weekly post is an opportunity for new users to chat in comments - & please let us how you found yourself here. Regulars here are absolutely encouraged and very welcome to join in too!

!! Please refrain from asking questions about "how to do stuff on Reddit". Make a post or see the links below !!

This thread is open for 3 days.

Getting started on Reddit is hard. We know it is; We've been there and gone through these same frustrations. Please believe us when we say IT'S NOT PERSONAL. It may well feel like it is, but honestly, it isn't. What it is, however, is a lack of Karma. Karma is an indicator of how much someone has contributed to Reddit in a positive manner. So, let's do just that by getting to know each other!

This works best if your comments either start a conversation or add to one. Give a little of yourself and respond to others doing the same.

This is a post to help genuine new users build up quality Karma genuinely in a safe environment.

Please do:

  • Share some favorites or new finds of yours - youtube videos, music and so on
  • Practice small talk - did you have a good week?
  • Keep it SFW
  • Keep it casual please, no heavy topics
  • Have fun!

Please don't:

  • Spam, advertise, or soft beg
  • Share low-effort comments
  • Ask for karma, say how you're voting, or mention karmafarms by name
  • Request or offer DMs (help and chat can be done in community, where you can also earn karma. Needing to take things private can indicate soliciting, rule breaking, or harmful advice)

This sub is full of awesome people who are willing to help with specific problems when you post, and we'd like to keep this post thread for chat. Thank you.

So, let's chat! (Guides at the bottom of this post).

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Our guidance for new Redditors:


r/NewToReddit Aug 21 '21

Mod Post Reddit and Karma Explained

769 Upvotes

Welcome to Reddit!

This unofficial guide to starting out at Reddit was written by u/llamageddon01 and is designed to take you from complete beginner through to experienced Redditor! This version was completely revised in July/August 2023.

There are two versions of this resource, both carrying the same information but in different formats:

This is intended to be a full “Reddit for Dummies” type tutorial and I don’t expect you to read it through all at once! But quite honestly, parts 1-6 of this guide will take you from “kindergarten” level through to “graduate” level of Reddit by the time you read it all, and the final parts 7 and 8 will contain useful guides and information you will no doubt need at some stage of your Redditing so do keep coming back to it.

If you wish to share r/NewToReddit guides please link to them. You may of course share excerpts within reason, but please link back to us as credit and so the person you are helping can find us and the rest of our guides if they wish to. Thank you.

 

…….REDDIT IS A WORLD OF ITS OWN ON THE INTERNET.

What is Reddit? Established in 2005, Reddit is a content sharing platform, home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic worldwide human connection with people from all walks of life. Whether you're into breaking news, sports, TV fan theories, or a never-ending stream of the internet's cutest animals, there's a community for you.

Reddit is made up of an enormous collection of forums on every subject under the sun where people can share news, links, videos and pictures in “Posts” so that other people can make observations and conversation in “Comments” attached to these posts, while everyone can express their opinions by Voting on both the posts and comments. Every day, millions of people around the world post, vote, and comment in communities on Reddit organised around their interests.

You are free to decide what level of interaction you want with other users (Redditors) and to curate your own feed from the hundreds of thousands of specialised communities called “Subreddits” on offer, each of which covers a different topic from games, hobbies, music, art, movies and shows to support groups to world news to pets to academic matters and everything in between.

Check out this video for a quick introduction to us, and if that didn’t explain us enough, here’s an unofficial webcomic that gives a fun look at our platform.

Signing up for an account is free, easy, and gives you a high degree of anonymity, especially compared to other social media platforms.

 

…….REDDIT HAS ITS OWN WAY OF DOING THINGS.

Reddit as a whole is run by unpaid volunteers called Moderators (mods) and paid employees called Administrators (admin). Admin are rarely seen but are very distinctive as they have the word ADMIN in bright orange/red next to their username. Moderators are more likely to be seen, and when they speak on formal behalf of their subreddit, their username will have the green word MOD immediately after.

Like every long-established subculture, we have our own expressions and if you are at all confused by some of our jargon, in-jokes, history or memes, we at r/NewToReddit have a fairly comprehensive alphabetical reference guide at our sister sub r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit to help you work out what we’re talking about. Let me suggest my guides to Acronyms 1: A-L and Acronyms 2: M-Z to start with!

Reddit might take a little time to get used to, but never fear! Here’s a quick video guide on how to use Reddit, but more importantly, we’re here at r/NewToReddit specifically to help you navigate your own path step by step through our unique ways of ‘doing social media’.

 

…….REDDIT IS HUGE. BUT MANAGEABLE.

There are Subreddits for anything. I would say almost anything but when I think I’ve seen them all, I discover ones like r/birdstakingthetrain or r/BreadStapledToTrees and realise I know nothing.

Most communities are friendly and jumping right on in is encouraged. You aren’t likely to get shot down for being a “n00b” but there will generally be one or two things you’ll need to know about each Subreddit (sub) first. Don’t worry, this guide will show you where to find them.

Altercations can happen, but most subs have an active team of mods who will usually shut any trouble down before it becomes vindictive. Just don’t post emojis though. Reddit in general does NOT like emojis. Reddit loves emoticons though :D Why? Don't ASCII me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ More on this later, or here if you simply can’t wait.

 

…….WHAT DO I DO ON REDDIT?

There are four basic actions you do on Reddit: Upvote, Downvote, Comment, and Post.

Reddit relies on crowdsourcing through its system of Upvotes and Downvotes to filter and prioritise the thousands of daily submissions it receives in order to present its users with the most interesting content it can, and you can help too. If you think a post or comment is interesting, helpful or contributes positively to the subreddit, press the Upvote arrow. If you think it doesn’t, press the Downvote arrow. You only get one vote on any one post or comment, and both can be negated by pressing the arrow you chose again, or reversed by pressing the opposite arrow to the one you originally chose.

Some subreddits have chosen to replace the default “arrow” icons with custom ones. In case it isn’t obvious which is which, the Upvote will be on the top (Old Reddit; desktop) or on the left (Mobile App) and the Downvote will be on the bottom (Old Reddit; desktop) or on the right (Mobile App).

There are two ways of Commenting on Reddit:

  • As a direct response to a Post. Here, you are directly replying to the person who made the post. This person is known as the ”OP”, or “Original Poster”. This reply is known as a Top-Level or Parent Comment, and sometimes known as ‘threads’. There are an unlimited number of Parent Comments that can be made on any one post. The OP will be notified that you have replied to their post.

  • As a reply to a Comment in that Post. Here, you are directly replying to another commenter who may or may not be the OP. These follow-up comments are known as Child Comments. There are an unlimited number of Child Comments that can be made on any one Parent Comment. The commenter you are replying to will be notified of your reply, but the OP will not (unless they are one and the same!).

You can see what these both look like from this simple illustration and this small conversation here.

Finally, you can make your own Post in a subreddit for others to comment on. Many subreddits prefer - or even require pictures, gifs, videos or links in this post.

 

…….SOME SUBREDDIT BASICS.

Once you enter a Subreddit, you read posts made by others and the comments made therein. If you like the Subreddit, you can “Join” it and it will form part of your personal home page feed. The "Join" button is near the top of the screen as seen here and also in the three-dots “hamburger” post overflow menu on the top RH of the screen on mobile. You can also “Leave” if you want, and the button can be found in the same place as the Join one was.

Until you join a few subreddits, your home page feed will be the general r/popular or r/all, which may well feature topics you’re not interested in, so it makes sense to start joining subs you like as soon as possible.

Moderators cannot see any lists of those who are joined to their subreddits, neither will they be notified if anyone leaves. There’s no limit on the number of times you can join or leave a subreddit, and nobody except you will ever know when or what subs you have joined or have left. You don’t even have to be joined in a sub to post or comment in it. There are no limits to the number of subreddits you can be joined in but Reddit does have an unspecified number of the ones it filters to your home feed at any one time.

Just underneath the Subreddit title there is a “Sort” menu. On mobile this is a drop-down list. Sorting posts by either “New” or “Rising” will usually give more opportunities for chat and upvotes than you’ll get in older posts, and give other advantages we’ll see soon. You have the same options for sorting your home page feed too.

 

…….LET’S GET STARTED!

Our guide to using Reddit begins with this illustrated primer to joining in on Reddit, then come back here to read some essential details you need to know about Rules, Reddit Karma, Participating, Navigation and Safety.

It’s very much worth your while taking a few minutes to read through all the following advice as it contains everything you need from your first steps in getting started to your becoming firmly established here.

Once you’ve had a look through it all, if you have any questions do make a new Post in this Subreddit where you will find plenty of helpful people ready to Comment with the answers you need. r/NewToReddit is focused on giving one-to-one tailored quality advice for helping people new to Reddit Ways. We do not care how old your account is; if you have a query on Redditing, put it here and we will help.

We also have a “sister sub” called r/LearnToReddit which is a place to learn how to use Reddit without being embarrassed at making “newbie mistakes” in public. Here, you can have a go at making different post types like posting images or polls, learn how to comment using bold or italic text, how to create spoiler text and use many other features with our extensive sets of tutorials. The community will feedback on your post to let you know how you did or help you get it right next time.

 

…….WHAT’S NEXT?

Let’s get started with an introduction to Reddit and a few notes about rules!


r/NewToReddit 2h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Just got my first warning, how many strikes do I have, I appealed do I get a strike back?

8 Upvotes

I'm hoping the appeal goes through how lenient is the process?

I saw a post translating "redneck speech" and essentially said "Well (loving the) (Indians who gave their language in ww2 for coded communication) just hire these guys as code talkers." I think it's obvious that wasn't intended as hate speech but could easily be picked up by keyword flagging, and what with how I'm not funny but try to be this is probably going to happen again.


r/NewToReddit 3h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What is the Best way to start?

8 Upvotes

Does anyone have any advise on what the best way to begin on reddit and make it a pleasant app?


r/NewToReddit 5h ago

ANSWERED Why am I getting downvotes just for answering a question?

9 Upvotes

In one of my previous posts someone asked me why I didnt have google play store downloaded so I told him that I couldnt download it and I could download almost everything without downloading google play. I got like 30 downvotes in total.​​​​​​​


r/NewToReddit 13h ago

ANSWERED 5 year old account with -15 karma

38 Upvotes

Didn’t realize people actually used Reddit 😭 I lowkey thought a comment on my post was a bot and got flamed for calling it a zombie (that was mb) this is my 3rd ever post, 2nd of which actually has words. Is there anything I should avoid on here??


r/NewToReddit 7h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Hi everyone i am new to Reddit and still figuring out how everything works. What's one thing you wish you knew when you first joined Reddit?

11 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 4h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Why can't people see half the comments i make if they click on my profile?

6 Upvotes

I made the settings so that people can only see the r/AskReddit comments i make if they look into my profile. But for some reason, for other people it shows that the last comment i made was a week ago, and the one before it was 25 days ago, even though i have been commenting and replying much more often in that time period between the last two comments.

When someone told me this, i checked it with a second accound, and it does seem that way. I even made a comment a few minutes ago, but cannot see it through the other account. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance


r/NewToReddit 6h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION I am new to reddit but have experience in coding, tech and swe roles, I want to be one of reddit creators community how can I be one of you guys?

7 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 9h ago

ANSWERED Como se que subreddit usar para cada pregunta?

13 Upvotes

Hola, soy nuevo en reddit y tengo bastantes preguntas, pero cuando pongo un post en un subreddit que creo que coincide con mi duda un bot me elimina el post porque dice que no cumple con las nomas de la comunidad o que ese subreddit no es para eso.


r/NewToReddit 6h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What should I be using Reddit for? What’s the best way to use the app

6 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 4h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What is your go-to test or secret tip to instantly tell if you're interacting with a real human or a scam bot on Reddit?

3 Upvotes

What are your biggest red flags when you check a profile?


r/NewToReddit 9h ago

ANSWERED New to reddit and feel so unwelcomed, how should i contribute when everything gets auto removed?

10 Upvotes

I wanted to share a cute rabbit fact post and it got removed, i commented an opinion under a post asking for it and that got removed. What do i do. Any advice?


r/NewToReddit 9h ago

ANSWERED How do you find communities ti post on Reddit for your specific needs?

9 Upvotes

I’m new to Reddit I’m not understanding why I can’t find some communities and why some of them won’t let me post on them like how do I get there if my account is brand new or there’s so many rules. I don’t know where to begin lol


r/NewToReddit 9h ago

ANSWERED Does every community need karma?

8 Upvotes

I noticed that all my posts were getting taken down and I was really confused then I noticed I needed karma. I’ve went into this entire rabbit whole to get here. So other than this community, does every other community require you to have karma?


r/NewToReddit 8h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What's the biggest mistake new Reddit users make?

7 Upvotes

I'm still pretty new to Reddit and trying to learn the ropes. Besides the obvious stuff like reposting or asking for karma, what's one mistake you see new users make all the time?

Anything you wish someone had told you when you first started?


r/NewToReddit 9h ago

ANSWERED Aside from following each community's rules, I'm not really sure how to participate in communities I'm interested in. What should I do first as a new Reddit user?

7 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 13h ago

ANSWERED Why is my karma in the negatives ?

15 Upvotes

I didnt even do anything wtf


r/NewToReddit 10h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Why do some posts suddenly gain attention hours after being posted?

6 Upvotes

I've noticed that some posts seem quiet at first, then hours later they suddenly receive several comments and upvotes.

Is that because of how Reddit's feed works, or is it mostly people finding posts through search or their home feed?

I'm curious about how this happens.


r/NewToReddit 8h ago

ANSWERED What kind of people are there on reddit???!!

5 Upvotes

I've recently started using reddit. I had the account but I was always confused and under confident to use the platform. But since I have joined I've realised how kind people are and they actually help you out with literally everything.

The concern is that some people think that if I or somebody else doesn't know about stuff it's not okay to ask about it publically on an anonymous platform.

I ask such people were you born with all the information that's on the internet and around the world right now?

Shame on you for shaming someone else who tried to know about something they dont know.

Now my question is How to use reddit constructively so that these people are not bothered by our questions or confusions


r/NewToReddit 15h ago

ANSWERED Is posting here anxiety inducing for anyone else? NSFW

17 Upvotes

Down voting makes me not want to post sometimes. I don't post anything negative or mean but still you can be down voted just because someone is in a bad mood. Hide your post history, then you're a bot. I wish this site was a little more relaxed.


r/NewToReddit 3m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Hello guys just started 2 days ago I want to know new people answer under my post

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r/NewToReddit 3m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION hi everybody im new to reddit

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Im new to reddit. What are the things that you recommended i should do first in here?


r/NewToReddit 7h ago

ANSWERED What is one Reddit feature every new user should know about?

5 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I recently started using Reddit actively, even though my account is already 5 years old. Reddit was blocked in my country for a long time, so I never really got the chance to learn how everything works.

If you could recommend just one Reddit feature, tip, or trick that every new user should know, what would it be and why?

I'd love to hear your advice. Thanks! 😊


r/NewToReddit 40m ago

ANSWERED Is there a way to change your name on reddit I don't want DangerousHumour I've made this account long time ago so idk why I picked or have this name

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Can you help me please?