Jared's Guide to Reddit

This is reddit a glorious website that is so good it will make your d*ck hurt. BEWARE reddit is highly addictive. It is easy for hours to disappear in its sweet grasp.

Reddit it s website built in karma and the upvote system. When you see a post and like it upvote it. When a link has been upvoted it appears orange and if you feel that something is irrelevant or does not contribute in any way or is a repost you downvote it. Downvotes appear blue. remember don't downvote something that is a good post and contributes to the conversation just because you dont agree with what the person is saying. That is a summerfag move. [Side note: The use of fag is not intended as a homophobic slur. Fag us a popular suffix on 4chan for people (ie moralfag, artfag) in this sense fag is equivalent with person (so dont get all butt-hurt about it)] Don't be a summerfag. Take a look at the reddiquette It will help you get a feel for the social rules of reddit so people dont make fun of you.

Karma is a way of feeling important over nothing. Whenever someone gives you a upvote you get 1 link-karma. That is the number displayed next to your username. Whenever you make a comment on a post and someone upvotes it you receive 1 point of comment-karma. This number is not displayed next to your name. In order to see it click on your username and it will be displayed on your user page below your username. Only summerfags take karma too seriously, but everyone wants more. The more a post gets upvoted the higher it moves on the subreddit. The most popular posts make it to the front page. It is every redditor's goal to make it to the front page. Look at the pics below and LEARN!!!!!!!!

Finding Subreddits and General Navigation

You may have noticed a bunch of words across the top of your homepage

This is a easy to access list of the reddit communities you are subscribed to [reddit communities are also called subreddits- this name comes from file extensions because the folder that contains all community information marked 'r' is below the index file I only go into this information because it is useful to easily get to subreddits. Say you want to go directly to the videogames subreddit and bypass the front page. All you have to do is type reddit.com/r/videogames This works with any subreddit.] This top list is a list of the most commonly viewed reddits that you are subscribed to. This is what determines the contents of your feed. If you subscribe to /r/videogames then it will appear on your top banner and when people make posts to /r/videogames they will show up in your feed or the list of links that appear when you log in.

Now you are probably thinking I only subscribed to /r/ermahgerdcats [aka the best subreddit ever] but i still have a ton of subreddits in my top bar. When you make a reddit account you are automatically subscribed to a few default subreddits. To edit the subreddits you are subscribed to look for the tab on the far left of the top bar that says "My Reddits" click it and a dropdown menu with all of your subscribed subreddits will appear and at the bottom is a link that says "edit my subscriptions" click that shit!

You will see a page like thon one below. This screen is a great place to discover new and interesting subreddits that are more appealing to you than the defaults.

If you keep scrolling down you will see on the right a box that has all of your subscribed reddits together for easy unsubscribing.

A Few General Navigation Tips Like communities you can subscribe to users. When you have a friend on reddit you can subscribe to their posts. You can either search their username or use the same file extension system example: reddit.com/user/TigerRat1/ Once you have subscribed to a persons posts you can see them by clicking on the "friends" tab in the top left corner. To get back to the front page click the "front" tab and to view the top submissions of all the subreddits (not just the ones you are subscribed to) click the "all" tab. Mail: there is an envelope next to your username. This is where you go to access your messages. The envelope will turn orange when you have a new message and will stay white when you have no new mail. This icon will also tell you when someone has replied to one of your comments. (I did not know about the envelope turning orange for the longest time). Post navigation is pretty straight forward. You and see how many replies a post has and link to make a reply yourself directly below each post. You can also save that post for later, hide it, share it by email (no one does this) or report it to the mods. All of these functions are directly below a post.

Creating Your Own Posts

Submitting posts to reddit is actually very simple. When submitting pictures, videos, or gifs you do not upload the file to reddit, you are only allowed to link things to reddit and post text (because reddit has limited server space no uploads are allowed.) Instead you must upload it to a image sharing site first. Everyone on reddit generally uses Imgur for pictures and i.minus for large GIFs. You can create posts that are just text. This is called a selfpost and you do not receive link karma for upvotes on a selfpost (you only receive link karma from links that you submit.) You can recognize selfpost because they will not have a link pic and they have the option to be expanded so you can read the post. See below.

You can submit a link from any website. To submit a link click on the tab that says "submit link" see below.

Once you clicked it you will be automatically brought to the link submission page. If you want to create a selfpost click the tab at the top of the submission window that says text. Otherwise make a title and put the full url for the link you want to submit. Then you can either write the name of the subreddit that you want to post to or click on the link for one of your subscribed too subreddits. see pic below.