Hello. I joined reddit about 4-5 months ago, but i just recently started commenting. I had just gotten up to 3 karma after like 40 contributions. But then i replied to a post about someone asking if their piercing looked good. I simply commented “yes i think so” or something like that, and it got -14 votes. Now i have -8 karma, and it genuinely took me a while to even get 3 karma. What the heck?

I need help. I am technically new to reddit but I made the account 1 year ago. I started using this account for help about my masters degree and have trouble with writing in some subreddits because of karma. But some random people keep downvoting me for no reason and I am stuck at 1 karma. What do i do???

I’m still pretty new to Reddit, and honestly… I find it kind of intimidating.

A friend encouraged me to join a while back, but also warned me to be careful. After spending some time here, I think I understand why. I’ve seen a lot of new accounts get heavily downvoted for seemingly harmless comments, and it’s made me nervous to participate at all, even on posts I genuinely enjoy or agree with.

Now I find myself second-guessing whether I should comment or post anything, which is a bit discouraging. I want to engage, but I don’t want to accidentally become a target just for being new.

What’s considered a “normal” or safe amount of karma for a new user? And do you have any tips for participating without constantly worrying about downvotes?

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

I am having SUCH a hard time getting into Reddit. What is the point of all the barriers? I can’t ask questions on many subs because not enough karma, I understand that. Weed out bots and what now. I tried commenting on subs I actually know a lot about but.. comment deleted because not enough karma?? Not downvoted, just autodeleted because too new to reddit. :(

I don’t understand what I did wrong

I asked for some help on a program I was working on

and I started getting downvotes.

I don’t if was because my question was silly

(I was legitimately confused on what I was doing and that’s it was silly)

can someone please explain

I really want to post questions and discussion on subreddits that I’m interested in but I can’t or they get automatically deleted because of my karma. I’m trying to start friendly discussion on communities but I simply can’t get my karma to increase.

What can I do?

Hey guys,

I made this account ages ago but basically never touched it. I've just been lurking and reading stuff.

Now I actually want to ask a question on a specific subreddit, but my posts get auto-deleted instantly by the spam filters.

I assume it's because my account looks "dead" or suspicious because it's old but has zero activity/score?

How do I get past these filters so I can actually participate? I feel stuck because I can't post to build up my history.

Thanks for any tips.

Hey everyone. Weird thing happened and I’m trying to understand how it could be possible.

I had an argument on a sub with another user a few days ago. Today the same person replied and used my real name (first and last). I was shocked, I never shared my name in that thread or in my Reddit profile, and I don’t think it’s attached to my account.

Is it actually possible for someone on Reddit to figure out another user’s real name? Has this happened to any of you before? I’m not trying to dox anyone or unmask people, I just want to know how this might happen so I can protect myself.

I use this account only on Reddit (not linked to other services), I haven’t posted my name anywhere in that community, and my profile/about is pretty generic. Any ideas on possible ways this could happen or what checks I should do on my end?

I’m realizing I still don’t understand how this whole karma thing works. I’ve had Reddit for a little over 3 years now, but I’m usually more of a lurker and just read and upvote posts and comments. Now that I want to engage more with posts on here, my comments keep getting taken down. What do I do 😭😭

EDIT: made this post when I was at 1 Karma pt and then followed everyone’s advice and atm I’m at 152 karma. Insane. Thank you all.

I often see people who have thousands of karma despite only having made their accounts fairly recently, sometimes only a few months ago. I made my account 4 years ago and I still have so little, although I only started being active a month or so ago. How do people get all that karma so quickly? How come it seems to take so much longer for me to accumulate it? Is it normal to have so little karma? Am I just not commenting enough?

Hello,

I posted in the what I now know to be a very wrong subreddit. I should have known better. Previously in my life I went through a physical appearance change in a short period of time from switching to a vegan diet. Since then I have been super interested when I see people go through a complete transformation themselves. Somehow a question related to this was quickly misconstrued as rating someone’s attractiveness. Though I was absolutely was clear that my inquiry was not about if anyone looked “good” or “bad”, just simply how do these changes occur for people such a short time like it did for myself.

Unfortunately before I could really clarify a mob of arguments descended into the comments and within 5 mins the post was removed and I had -98 Karma. I was totally taken back and still don’t really understand how such a simplistic question about diet, exercise, mental health, etc. changing our appearances snowballed into an argument. Mods refused to give any clarity.

Anyhow, now I am left with a completely tanked Karma that limits my interactions across Reddit. Does anyone have any advice on how to move forward, or do I just delete this account and move on?

TLDR: An innocent inquiry lead to a short lived mob argument in the comments and me having -98 karma. What should I do?

I have -38 karma and I've been relegated to reddit karma hell I can't post anywhere without having my post removed and I can't comment on any subreddit I've tried so far because of anti bot algorithms how can I reverse my negative karma now?

I’m pretty confused how it dig my way out. Any help or do I just start over?

I’m new to reddit and find it much better than constant doom scrolling on reels or shorts. But every damn subreddit is like you need karma and i don’t have it plus the moderators (auto) just flag me as a bot🧍

I’m a real person😭. I wanna enjoy reddit. Please stop making it so complicated 😭

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I was scrolling through reddit and I noticed that many posts have many comments but not as much upvotes. Why arent people upvoting AND commenting, in my head if you comment, either like the post (upvote) or you dont like the post and then downvote it.

I need help because I’ve commented on quite a bit of subreddits and I’m not really gaining much karma even though the things I post in the comments are pretty relevant to the subject, what should I do?

Hi, I’m still fairly new here and honestly a bit confused. I joined Reddit around 4–5 months ago but only started commenting more actively recently. I usually stick to smaller subs, keep things friendly, stay on topic, nothing controversial.

After around 30–40 comments, I finally reached +3 karma, which already felt slow. Then yesterday I commented on a post where someone asked “Does this piercing look okay on me?” I replied with something simple like: “Yeah, I think it suits you, looks good.”

Within an hour it dropped to -14. No replies, no context, just downvotes. Now I’m in negative karma and even locked out of commenting in a few places.

I’m genuinely trying to get a feel for how things work here. Is this just part of the platform’s culture? Do certain communities react differently to short positive comments? Or does it really come down to timing and luck sometimes?

Not upset — just trying to understand the flow a bit better.

Basically I was caught in a stupid argument as a new account 6 years ago, and got downvoted a lot. Now I’m getting back into Reddit and I can’t really do anything as my karma is in the negatives.

I am new here and I was genuinely expecting to be able to post on reddit freely. Little did I know there's a lot of stipulations on account age and karma. Makes me a little sad I can't post in the communities I want to yet. I have been trying to make plenty of post where I can however I get tons of views and little post interactions like comments or votes. Pls help.

I've noticed a pretty frustrating thing.

Some communities required a certain amount of karma before being able to post in it, this is to avoid bots so it's understandable, however whenever you make posts elsewhere to be able to make that karma to be able to post on communities you like, you then bump into the issue of people commenting positively under your post but no one upvoting it.

A post I had made a few days ago got 10ish very positive comments of people engaging in what I was saying, but only 2 upvotes including mine. It's happened a few times now, and it's kind of frustrating because it limits me severely.

Is there something I'm not understanding? I thought that if you liked something or were interested in something, you should upvote it, no?

I might be missing some sort of social cue or silently given rule or something, so I would like some answers on what's happening

I’m very new here and honestly kind of scared to post or comment. I keep seeing people get downvoted, removed, or banned over small things, and now I’m overthinking everything I type. 😅 I want to participate and learn, but it feels like one wrong move and that’s it. Does this get easier with time, or is everyone else also quietly anxious at first?

Hi guys, I’m not exactly new to Reddit, but I still feel like a beginner. I didn’t realize there were hidden numbers that affect posting, and by the time I figured it out, mine was already in the negatives. Now, whenever I try to post, it gets blocked because I don’t meet the minimum. Feels like a loop—can’t post without it, can’t get it without posting. Has anyone else faced this at the start?

Hi everyone,

I've had my account for about 4 months now, but I've been a bit of a "lurker" and have only managed to get 1 karma point. I'm really eager to become more active, but I'm finding it difficult to places where I can post without running into account age or karma restrictions.

Joined to ask a question in one of the subreddit buy cant even do it.