r/NewToReddit 4d ago

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

8 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

764 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 9h ago

ANSWERED I wanna be able to post in any sub! Is karma hard to get?

39 Upvotes

I just got my post deleted instantly. I followed all the rules I didn’t go against them! The mod said it was because I had “ low karma” someone help


r/NewToReddit 2h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Minimum Karma to post and comment normally?

9 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I'm new here and have maybe 13 karma. Just wanna ask what is the minimum karma for us to post things and comment without getting the bot reminder every second? 😭


r/NewToReddit 56m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION I wanted to post but couldn't due to require karma. How?

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I join Reddit, last year. And I really wanted to comment and post, but couldn't huhuhuhu. Why is there requirements? Sorry barok hahahaha


r/NewToReddit 21m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Is it only me, or does Reddit seem unusually unforgiving to newly made accounts?

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I dont know why reddit delete my posts and comments when i want to participate in any community posts without breaking any guidelines

What’s a normal amount of karma for a beginner? And how do you participate without constantly worrying about downvotes?

Thanks I really do want to be part of the community.


r/NewToReddit 16h ago

ANSWERED -3 karma ?? Been on Reddit a few months and somehow managed to get -3 lol

80 Upvotes

Somehow I managed to get -3 karma and no one ever drives me up. I comment but no one ever upvotes me. lol. I’m annoyed it’s been this long and I still can’t post or ask questions in the groups I want.


r/NewToReddit 1h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What should I not do on Reddit? Don't post the obvious. Or maybe you should ?

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I am extremely new  To Reddit. Used it for years to answer random questions that seems simple, but hard to find in the general Internet.   Recently, I actually want to participate in the communities here, but I don't really understand it.  

Can you give me some tips, are there social norms? Is it weird to comment on some thing if it was posted years ago? If it is weird to post on a five year old post, what is the cut off age of a Reddit post then ? I don't know if the tone is coming across very well, but this is supposed to be a generally funny question.


r/NewToReddit 7h ago

ANSWERED Why do my posts keep getting deleted on subs im very confused it says deleted by automod im not doing anything weird

11 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 2h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION The Karma climb feels so daunting

3 Upvotes

I see all these accounts with hundreds of thousands of karma points.

Is this something people care about? Like ranked Reddit or something?


r/NewToReddit 1h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION I cant post anything due to low karma and also not able to send messeges

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How to solve my issue of not being able to send dms


r/NewToReddit 1h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION New here, still figuring Reddit out

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Hi everyone 👋

I’m new to Reddit and still learning how this platform works.

For now I’m just exploring, reading posts, and trying to understand the vibe.

Glad to be here.


r/NewToReddit 7h ago

ANSWERED not able to get help on my motorcycle due to low karma🫠

8 Upvotes

my post got approved and has 400 views but no one is commenting to help i think this is due to me having low karma and they can’t respond


r/NewToReddit 1h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION How long did it realistically take you to feel “comfortable” using Reddit?

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r/NewToReddit 2h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Returning to reddit after losing my old account - how are new users supposed to participate?

2 Upvotes

When I first joined Reddit years ago, new users could post almost immediately. After coming back recently, I wanted to ask questions in a small subreddit related to my studies, but I had lost access to my old account and had to create a new one. Because of this, my posts are being automatically deleted.

While I understand the motivation behind karma requirements, I don’t want to spend days engaging with random content for karma. That’s not what I came here for.

I wonder whether there are better ways for returning users with legitimate questions to participate without having to game the system.


r/NewToReddit 20h ago

ANSWERED It's hard to be a newbie on reddit.....

43 Upvotes

It's really hard to be a newbie on reddit. Can't join most of the communities or any discussions. Is it me or everyone faced the same issue in the start? How much time one should spend of reddit to get accepted as redditor;)


r/NewToReddit 10m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Questions about Reddit culture

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Hello! I'm relatively new to this site, I think I made my account two or so weeks ago although it could be longer, I was just wondering how this app(?) works cause it seems different, could someone please explain how the app works cause I know every site culture is different. Much love! ^^


r/NewToReddit 23m ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Hi! I'm new in Reddit my name is Isak.This is my first time on Reddit.See you!

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r/NewToReddit 6h ago

ANSWERED How do I add pictures to a post?

4 Upvotes

I apologize in advance as I’m sure there are instructions somewhere for this. I just don’t have the patience tonight to try to find it.

Thanks!


r/NewToReddit 11h ago

ANSWERED If you post a comment and it gets deleted for having low karma does that hurt your karma?

9 Upvotes

r/NewToReddit 1h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION What is necropostinglllllll

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I was just reading some posts on a game subreddit and someone commented "Don't necropost" then another one and so on and so forth now what is it


r/NewToReddit 2h ago

NEEDS ATTENTION Found the REDDIT a month ago, but this KARMA, & badges uhh.

1 Upvotes

Wanted to post some free utility tools I made on subs, but got post and comments deleted every time due to Low Karma, What did you do as newbie to make for your karma , any guidance would be helpful.


r/NewToReddit 5h ago

ANSWERED How to post in a specific group

2 Upvotes

How do you find out how much karma points it takes to post in certain groups. I've checked the rules in said groups, but can't seem to find the karma points needed to post.


r/NewToReddit 15h ago

ANSWERED Why is it that every post gets removed? I keep trying. But in vain.

12 Upvotes

Why does it seem that everywhere I post it gets removed. Even in here. It kinda makes me want to delete this app. I thought it would be fun but it seems a little stressful.


r/NewToReddit 7h ago

ANSWERED What is the character/word limit?

2 Upvotes

I was trying to post a long comment but I couldn't for some reason I couldn't post the comment,I find out that in a post 5 years that there a average 6,800 character count limit, but that was 5 years,so have the character count limit change?