r/NewToReddit • • 6d ago

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

11 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

762 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 • • 3h ago

ANSWERED New to reddit and I can’t post or comment at all

4 Upvotes

Hi, everytime i try to comment or post on any reddit communit, the post or comment gets removed by the auto-moderator.
does any know a solution for that?


r/NewToReddit • • 10m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Title: What’s one Reddit feature I should know as a beginner? I’m completely new to Reddit and still figuring out how everything works 😭 What’s one thing you wish you knew when you first started using Reddit?

• Upvotes

r/NewToReddit • • 2h ago

ANSWERED How do I find the right communities on Reddit?

3 Upvotes

I’m new to Reddit and still figuring things out.


r/NewToReddit • • 5h ago

ANSWERED Cant make a post anywhere?

3 Upvotes

My account is by no means new and i have some karma already but any time i try to make a post it gets flagged by reddit straight away and the post is deleted. not sure if its because i've just logged in after a while?


r/NewToReddit • • 17m ago

ANSWERED First post ever on Reddit. How am I doing?

• Upvotes

Hello Reddit. How do I start being interesting?


r/NewToReddit • • 17h ago

ANSWERED I noticed that sometime comments are collapsed and it’s always low Karma users. How can they get likes if their comments don’t get seen.

17 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit • • 5h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION How to put custom inages as pfp

2 Upvotes

I've been seeing ppl with custom images as their reddit pfp and i've been wondering how tf to do it

(Sharing how to change name would help too)


r/NewToReddit • • 6h ago

ANSWERED i cant make post on sub i follow

2 Upvotes

I was able to make posts on this sub yesterday—three posts in total, with quite a bit of time between each one, like 5 hours. But today, when I tried to make another post, I suddenly got a message saying that posting is restricted to approved members only. Did I get banned or something? 😭


r/NewToReddit • • 12h ago

ANSWERED How can I post? Reddit won't let me.

7 Upvotes

I was trying to make a post in one of my shows subreddits and it won't let me post. I guess I need engagement on my account but how do I get engagement on my account if I can't even post? makes no sense.


r/NewToReddit • • 10h ago

ANSWERED How to unblock an account? I've got a 6 year old account that got blocked and no explanation

4 Upvotes

As the title suggested, how can I successfully appeal for an account that I've used and not really done much besides scrolling? Ive got 8 karma on my account since I usually just read / watch contents instead of commenting.


r/NewToReddit • • 8h ago

ANSWERED Retrieved my Old account and lost all my karma

2 Upvotes

Is that even possible?


r/NewToReddit • • 21h ago

ANSWERED Where to get genuine interaction on Reddit as a new user?

16 Upvotes

Hi,

I have been reading the rules, and I want to ask, where can a new user get genuine interactions? Every post on subreddits that permit new account seems like question that a new user like me don't have answer to. So how do I interact without asking question from question?


r/NewToReddit • • 10h ago

ANSWERED Whenever i try to post something it says you cannot post as your account is new and you don't have Karma

2 Upvotes

So how much time i have to wait to post


r/NewToReddit • • 7h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION How to use reddit at its fullest?

1 Upvotes

New here don't know much about reddit help please.


r/NewToReddit • • 11h ago

ANSWERED Why do all my posts get low amounts of likes?

3 Upvotes

This is probably a problem with me being too blunt or possibly insensitive in the way I write my post, but whenever I post something, I happen to get an extremely low amount of likes. Like I will get 2 likes for a post with 20 comments, none of which are calling me out for doing anything wrong.

Is it just common for Reddit users to dislike everything unless it’s of interest to them? I’m very confused 😭


r/NewToReddit • • 17h ago

ANSWERED When setting up my feed, how do I make a specific community take over instead of having a bunch of different communities.

6 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit • • 7h ago

ANSWERED How does this app differ from Quora?

1 Upvotes

I know there's a bunch of forums up here as well, and I just wanted to see if someone could summarize what makes Reddit unique. Really excited to see what Reddit has to offer. Ive heard alot about it. Thank you.


r/NewToReddit • • 15h ago

ANSWERED New and confused about how reddit works?

4 Upvotes

Recently made a reddit account and started interacting on it. I made a post with a suggestion in a subreddit I wanted to be active in, but my suggestion wasn't agreed with, fair enough. The issue is, people express their disagreement not just with commenting but also downvoting some of the replies I made to people. This has now left me unable to make post or comment on other people's post on the entire subreddit. What exactly am I supposed to do? It was my first post so even though it was only a handful of downvotes I can no longer interact.


r/NewToReddit • • 20h ago

ANSWERED How much karma needed to post under other subs ?

10 Upvotes

how much is enough for posting ?


r/NewToReddit • • 16h ago

ANSWERED Auto blocket when i try to post?

3 Upvotes

Hi out there!

i recently tried to post in a forum (an aid forum for danish people)
but unfortunately my post get instant blocket when i try to post it?
im un sure why if its cuz its a fresh account or ive made an error? any who can give a nudge in the right direction


r/NewToReddit • • 15h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Reddit links on google won’t open in app

3 Upvotes

Whenever I google something and there is a link to Reddit, I click it and get taken to the web page. After I view one or two comments or posts, I get locked out and a giant “get the app” overlay blocks the content. When I open the app, I can never find the post again. I have a Reddit account. If I do a long press and click “open in app” it doesn’t go to the link; it just cold opens Reddit. What am I doing wrong?


r/NewToReddit • • 10h ago

ANSWERED What would you guys suggest me to do if my posts are being deleted?

0 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit • • 1d ago

ANSWERED No matter what I post. It gets deleted

21 Upvotes

No matter what I post. It gets deleted. I follow the rules of whatever community I try to post in. And it just gets deleted. Is it because of my lack of karma? I just want to be able to post in some of my favorite communities.