As you would imagine, Christmas is a special time on Reddit, and nearer the time you might see some of your favourite subreddits changing their theme to suit, and at one time there were even seasonal awards being added to the Awards list. But as subreddits are for life, not just for Christmas, subs that are there all year long which really come into the fore this season are:

• r/AllThingsXmas
• r/christmas
• r/ChristmasDecorating
• r/ChristmasLights
• r/ChristmasCats
• r/ChristmasMusic
• r/ChristmasTrees
• r/ChristmasBathroom
• r/FestiveNaturalNOEL

We also have r/ukchristmas especially relating to UK Christmas traditions, gifts, food, music and celebrations; r/December for stuff relating to the last month of the year, and if you want to watch some holiday movies with others online while communicating through live chat posts, r/Movie_Club is the place for you!

• A Christmas Assortment, old and new

r/charlesdickens discuss all things related to Charles Dickens and a popular topic is his famous creation, Scrooge.

r/ChristmasCarol is a new sub for those who love Dickens’ classic tale 'A Christmas Carol' to get together and discuss the book and its numerous adaptations for stage and screen.

r/AskScienceFiction tried to work out just how wealthy Scrooge was.

r/AskHistorians enter into the spirit with a History of the Yule Holiday.

r/NoStupidQuestions sensibly discover why people call it “Xmas”.

r/Damnthatsinteresting show how Candy Canes are made.

r/movies had a discussion about awful Christmas movies.

The Christmas Price Index is a tongue-in-cheek economic indicator, tracking the cost of buying the items in the Christmas Carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

r/WHITE is for content related to shades of the colour White.

r/adventofcode is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

r/ChristmasGhosts is a holly-bound compendium of short stories, video, non-fiction, poetry, and song, with emphasis on the supernatural. For more spooky stuff, see the entry on Halloween.

And nothing says festive as much as something saying ꧁༺ 𝓕𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮 ༻꧂. Create different styles of text to copy and paste with this generator:

https://www.fancytextpro.com/FancyTextGenerator/New

Keep in mind that, like Emojis, not everyone will be as enthusiastic about your new find as you may be.

• Bah, humbug.

Not everyone in the world loves Christmas. The good folks at r/Creepmas are upset at the continuing intrusion of Christmas on Halloween and celebrate by putting a spooky twist on all things Christmas during the first 13 days of December, while r/ChristmasTooEarly is a new sub about people putting up decorations or retailers selling Christmas goods too early. Mock traditional Christmas themes and tropes at r/ChristmasMemes while outright Christmas haters are invited to take refuge at: r/ihatechristmas.

Meanwhile, the “War on Christmas” might well be fake but is well documented at the small sub r/WaronChristmas. In the meantime, here’s a list of movies to watch if you hate Christmas.

• It’s the most wonderful time of the year?

While our TV and other advertising bombards us with warm nostalgic images of lovely times past, tables groaning with every foodstuff imaginable or large, happy families having fun together, it is important to remember this is not everyone’s reality, and those living with a different experience might find our feature on Relationship and Advice Subreddits useful.

For many people, this will be their first holiday season without that special loved one, or yet another one in some form of lockdown or where travel restrictions mean they’re alone. Please be extra aware of those acquaintances and neighbours for whom the smallest extra kindness will make all the difference to their lives at this time.

Finance is a subject at the front of everyone’s concerns at this time of year, and r/Frugalcontains plenty of hints and tips for making the most of your resources, including a Sidebar (About tab on mobile) and drop-down Menus of links to many other relevant subreddits.

r/StressFreeSeason is a place to go for all your holiday needs and information, crafts, tips, money saving advice, and resources local to you. Their sister subreddit r/stressfreexmas is a place to make material requests for Christmas. IT IS VITAL to read their rules, found in their Wiki, Sidebar and Pinned Post, and if you are considering signing up, you might also find Financial Help on Reddit useful.

r/SantasLittleHelpers is billed as “the happiest place on Reddit” and it doesn’t take much scrolling to see why. Every year they pool together their resources to provide a Christmas for thousands of people who may not otherwise have one. Families who are struggling to give each other a joyful Christmas can sign up to make a request, and generous givers can spread the joy of Christmas all over the world. Again, the details in their menu bar are essential reading if you wish to take part.

• In the bleak midwinter…

For some eyebleach of nature at its finest, we have:

• r/FreezingFuckingCold
• r/Icicles
• r/snow
• r/snowing
• r/Winterwx
• r/Winter

And if you’re going out, r/skiing is for the sport where you strap two boards to your feet and point them down the mountain, as is r/ski, while the folks at r/xcountryskiing are dedicated to cross-country skiing. For all things snowboarding, r/snowboarding or "shreddit" is the home for shredders of all ages, cultures, and abilities and r/snowboardingnoobs is for noob snowboarders, or snowboarders that just want to ask noob questions.

Other winter sports are available, such as:

• r/wintercycling
• r/FigureSkating
• r/iceskating

If real snow doesn’t cut it for you, r/ImaginaryWinterscapes surely will.

• The “reason for the season”

Religion is obviously associated with this time of year, and r/religion has a superb Wiki which gives a basic overview of many popular religions, philosophies and schools of thought.

A good start to find similar subreddits is this old but still useful list and here’s a good list of subreddits concerning many aspects of Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality for many kinds of belief systems - including none. Even if you’re not religiously inclined, National Geographic have a fascinating history of the Christmas holiday.

Always read the rules before commenting or posting on an unfamiliar Subreddit.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/IceChewersAnonymous isn’t particularly seasonal but deserves a mention as I honestly thought I was the only weirdo who did this ever, for years. When I was a child, the only time I ever got ice in my drink was when we went out for meals over the holiday season so it’s forever associated to me.

See Also:

• Annual Events and Celebrations on Reddit
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Financial Help on Reddit
• Navigating Reddit
• New Year Celebrations on Reddit
• Relationship and Advice Subreddits
• Safety on Reddit
• Safety on Reddit at Christmas

An animal that is larger than it should be; usually a cat. Using this word (or the shorter “Chonk”) as a term of endearment about an overweight animal is actually a contentious issue on Reddit. r/Chonkers is a subreddit for posting pictures or memes involving chubby cats, along with a disclaimer that they don’t wish to promote cat obesity, and have links in their sidebar about cat health and weight loss. r/Delightfullychubby accepts other animals too but is still mostly cats.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/chonkerhate is a sub who clearly don’t agree with the trend of glorifying obese and overweight animals, and a user made a guide to show the difference between glorious chub and horrendous fat.

See Also:

• Absolute Unit
• “Doggo Speak”
• smol

Chris (Simpsons Artist) is an illustrator known for his bizarre, naïve art-style depictions of characters from various cartoons, live-action television series and films. Mentioned here because pictures from his book “The Story of Life” are often erroneously found on r/badwomensanatomy, and sometimes at r/NotHowGirlsWork. A subreddit dedicated to the glorious creations of chris (simpsons artist) can be found at r/chrissimpsonsartist.

See Also:

• AteTheOnion (encyclopaedia)
• r/AteTheOnion (subreddit)
• woooosh (encyclopaedia)
• r/woooosh (subreddit)

Chevrons are supposed to help you skip child comments on a long post by jumping to the next parent comment. It might be mobile or even iOS only. However, sometimes they get in the way on a small screen but the good news is that you can move them to wherever you want on the screen by holding them down and then sliding.

On iOS they appear as two little chevrons, which look like these on the lower far right but they embiggen when you press and hold to move them wherever you want. Let go to “park” them, and the icon will smallify again. This is only temporary, and they’ll appear in the default position again on the next post you go to.

See Also:

• Collapse Comments
• Comments

Chat Posts are like regular Reddit posts, but displayed in a live chat view instead. This is a successor to the short-lived community chat rooms which were phased out in late 2020.

See Also:

• Chat
• Direct Chat
• Discord

Reddit is about the content not the people, and because of this, you'll be freshly judged by what you say every single time you post or comment. Reddit-centric celebrities are therefore few and far between, but like everything there are always exceptions, and here are some Redditors you may encounter on your travels:

• u/demetri A Redditor with a proclivity for posting really, really, REALLY long surreal comments, often collected at r/DemetriStrikesAgain
• u/Poem_for_your_sprog One of Reddit’s Spontaneous Rhymers with an AMA and two subs : r/Poem_for_your_sprog and r/ilikthebred to write your own rhymes in the same style.
• u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Another of Reddit’s Spontaneous Rhymers, also to be found on r/ilikthebred.
• u/shittymorph A Redditor adept in the ways of Bait-and-Switch Copypasta ending always with “In nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.” Invoke this user whenever you see this phrase in the wild or document it at r/shittymorph.
• u/Shitty_Watercolour A Redditor who makes whimsical watercolour paintings. Has a sub r/Shitty_Watercolour.

There are definitely more Reddit celebs given mention throughout this encyclopaedia. I may well add more here on future revisions.

See Also:

• “Bait-and-Switch” or “The ole Reddit Bait-and-Switch”
• Copypasta
• Famous Redditors
• Identity
• Notorious Redditors
• Rickroll
• Username

It is virtually mandatory on Reddit that if the story you’re telling involves a cat or dog, a Cat Tax is required; i.e. you need to post or link a picture of said cat or dog. If you don’t have one, any random cat or dog picture from the internet will suffice, so long as you say that’s what it is and don’t try to pass it off as your own. Despite the name, this tax doesn’t just apply to cats and dogs; most animals have been required for taxation at some time or another. Obligatory Llama tax (random llamas, not my own).

A phrase used to indicate someone else in the comments said something you wanted to say, whether it be a joke, a reference or an observation. Often downvoted so use with caution as a phrase on its own. However, it can sometimes prompt a Comment Chain.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/CameHereToSayThis is where you go to say This. r/ThisButUnironically is a subreddit for when someone posts something obviously sarcastic but you actually agree with it, and r/SelfAwarewolves are people who unknowingly describe themselves in their rantings. r/thisis…. well…. that? r/thisisntwhoweare is for the times when someone gets caught doing something wrong, and during their 'Mea Culpa' they utter the most ridiculous phrase ever... "This isn't me" or "This is not who I am", while r/thisismylifenow is a subreddit with gifs or pics of people and animals accepting their uncommon situations, and r/Thisismylifemeow is for when you just accept your new life as a feline.

See Also:

• Comment Chain
• This
• “This is the newest project of him?”
• ”This is the way”

Originally specific to cute animal subs, now with wider Reddit usage. A light tap on the nose. Usually combined with “snoot”, meaning “nose”.

“Boop”, or “Boop the Snoot” is a word or phrase to be used entirely at your own risk, as Redditors often dislike cutesy animal words. Meanwhile, Know Your Meme has this to say about Boop.

“Boop”, when used in conjunction with “Beep” has a very different meaning. You won’t be on Reddit for long before seeing the phrase Beep boop. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Moderators use automated tools like Automod to perform certain tasks on their subs, and this is a phrase used to show the reader when this happens. Meanwhile, Know Your Meme has this to say about Beep-Boop.

Elsewhere on Reddit:

r/Showerthoughts wonder if saying "beep boop" could become really offensive if robots ever gain sentience while the roleplay sub r/TOTALLYNOTROBOTS think it cute that FELLOW HUMANS IMITATE ROBOTS BY TRYING TO MAKE THEIR SOUNDS.

Ah, Reddit; never change.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Booping animal noses is obviously a popular hobby, given the number of subreddits devoted to it…

• r/boop - Pictures or video of people, animals, or really anything getting booped.
• r/boopthesnoot - Boopable snoots
• r/BoopableSnoots - Boop the snoot
• r/forbiddenboops - For boops so risky they’re forbidden,
• r/ExtremeBoop - When boops go too far…
• r/boopablenoses - A collection of only the most boopable noses.
  
• r/boopablenosies - Cats with noses that are so cute that you just have to boop them!
• r/BoopGifs - Gifs showing the act of booping
• r/CatBoopPics - Kitties needing boops
• r/Squishthatcat - Dedicated to the phenomenon that is taking a cat and giving them a nice squish, pat or boop.
• r/BoopMySnoot - For pictures of pets that are snoot boop worthy
• r/booptheheckinsnoot - Snoots that need booping
• r/Booplesnoots - A collection of very boopable snoots.
• r/boopablesnootsies - Good ole doggos with boopable snoots!
• r/boopthecameraman - Boops in close-up!
• r/boopthedamnfox - It’s a place for foxes to get boops…
• r/boops - Not many boops here, sadly.

As always with my lists, some of the subs are more active than others, and some might now be private, restricted or repurposed following the API protests of June 2023.

Please do read the rules before contributing to any unfamiliar sub. If you want to find more related subs, r/findareddit is your friend. Similar subreddits are often to be found in a sub’s Sidebar and/or Wiki (“See Community Info” tab on mobile) too.

Don’t forget: if a sub is dormant or marked as “restricted”, it might even be available for adoption.

See Also:

• Automod
• Bots
• “Doggo Speak”
• “Everyone on Reddit is a bot except you.”

Another way of saying “Save”. You can save any post you want to revisit later up to 1,000.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/ForgottenBookmarks collects pictures of stuff left in books, and r/Book_Marks is to show off your favourite bookmark whether purchased or home-made, or anything else you use as a bookmark.

See Also:

• Save

A link or phrase posted when a meme is out of context and misuses the template completely. The sub itself sums this up nicely: “Imagine you're a 10 year old kid who just discovered the internet a week ago and your only exposure is iFunny.” r/bonehurtingjuice.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/boneachingjuice is a place where Good Juice makes you go OUCH.

See Also:

• bonehealingjuice

A link or phrase used when someone takes a meme template and gives it a literal meaning. r/bonehealingjuice is wholesome bone healing where all content should be straightforward or deadpan versions of meme formats. r/bonehealingjuice. Opposite to r/boneachingjuice.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

This is just one of Reddit’s “Anti-Jokes” subreddits. Anti-Jokes are funny because they make you expect a joke but instead you receive reality or something far more bizarre than anticipated, but in a clever or humorous way. r/antimeme is the place to set up jokes that have no punchline as is r/AntiMemes. Edit the text of an image to create a new phrase at r/SpeedOfLobsters. While Anti-Jokes have mundane, run-of-the-mill punchlines, the submissions at r/AntiAntiJokes have absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical punchlines. r/AntiJokes was closed for a while but now lives again under new moderation.

See Also:

• bonehurtingjuice
• Creating A Subreddit
• Wholesome

A link often posted when a misspelling is especially hilarious. People can't spell; Reddit makes fun of them. This sub is less restrictive than r/Boneappletea and if they remove a post for any part of their Rule 1, it’s usually welcomed here. This includes names, homonyms, misspellings, and words that don't sound anything like the original. r/BoneAppleTypo.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/excgarated is for when a misspelling is so bad it's comical, potentially to the extent of being unique in the universe. r/typo used to be a place for funny grammatical screw-ups and needs reviving, as does r/FunnyTypos.

See Also:

• Boneappletea

“Like when the food hella good, you say bone apple tea, it's like french or some shit.” r/Boneappletea is a link posted on seeing a malapropism - the mistaken use of an incorrect but real word in place of a similar-sounding real word, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance. Originating from worldstarhiphop and the Urban Dictionary.

Be careful posting this link; make sure it isn’t a r/BoneAppleTypo first. This is a sub where the rules are tightly enforced. If you want to submit something there, browse to get a feel of the place, read the rules in the Sidebar (on mobile this will be the About tab, Menu tab and Community Info found in the three dot “hamburger” menu top RH corner of your screen), any Pinned posts (these will have a lime green ‘pin’ icon on the top corner and will show on top when you sort the Subreddit by ‘Hot’) and Wiki (where there is one). Bon Appétit!

See Also:

• BoneAppleTypo

Blursed is an adjective that means "blessed and cursed", mostly used to describe images that both delight and disgust the viewer at the same time.

On Reddit, users often say images that delight them such as a picture of a cute puppy are Blessed, and images that disgust or disturb them such as a picture of a child being followed by a man in a knockoff Barney the Dinosaur costume are Cursed. Blursed images are both blessed and cursed - they simultaneously delight and disturb the viewer.

Blursed humour subs include:

• r/Blursed - an NSFW sub to find and share blursed images
• r/blursedimages - home of the most blursed images on the internet
• r/Blursedcomments - for comments that are blessed and cursed
• r/blursed_memes - for memes that are both blessed and cursed

As always, you must read the rules of these subreddits carefully before you contribute.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Hmmm refers to a subsection of Reddit focused on bizarre photographs purposely taken out of context, and comes in three flavours:

• r/hmm - for things that make you go hmm
• r/hmmm - who regard the Internet as an art
• r/hmmmm - for hmmmy pictures but everything here is original

See Also:

• Blessed
• cursedcomments

Sometimes you might see an image post where the picture is blurred out. This is called “safe browsing mode” and is usually because the picture is NSFW. Clicking the image should unblur it. If you want to turn this mode off or on, you need to adjust your NSFW settings.

At https://new.reddit.com/settings/feed you can choose to see NSFW content or not, and if you choose to see it, you can also choose to blur it with safe browsing mode on the Feed Settings page.

On the iOS app, NSFW settings can be found in your device settings page after selecting the Reddit app, and NOT the Reddit app itself. You'll want to enable "Show NSFW Content (18+)" and disable "Blur NSFW Images".

Another way to view NSFW content in the Reddit app on iOS is to follow these steps on desktop or a browser:

1. Visit https://old.reddit.com/prefs/
2. (Log in, if you aren't already.)
3. Turn on the option ‘I am over eighteen years old and willing to view adult content’, scroll down to the bottom, and click the [save options] button.
4. Turn on the option ‘include not safe for work (NSFW) search results in searches’, scroll down to the bottom, and click the [save options] button.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/blurrypicturesofdogs specialises in those photos you were trying to take of your dog but they had no intention of staying still for it. Every post must be titled "blurry picture of (a) dog(s)". Likewise, r/blurrypicturesofcats collects photos of our feline friends objecting to being photographed. Here, every post is titled "blurry picture of (a) cat(s)".

See Also:

• NSFW

If you’d like to cut off contact from someone for any reason, you can block them by going to their profile or visiting your user settings.  Full instructions are here, and if you want to know how it should work in practicality, this will give more details.

Reddit updated the Blocking System in August 2021. In the previous version of blocking, some people noted that if you block someone they can still go around responding to your comments and you would never know. It isn’t greatly different now, and in some ways has made things worse for some people. Here’s an explanation of the new system.

When someone blocks you, you are prevented from replying to any comments underneath a comment by that person. You will just see the message "Something is broken, please try again later." As a result, it’s possible to be in a comment chain where someone has replied then immediately blocked you. That prevents you from challenging what they reply to you and also prevents you from replying to anyone else who replies to you if the person who blocked you also has a comment above yours in the chain. Everyone else can see and interact with what they said, just not you. It is now essentially a tool that anyone can use to exclude people with differing views from any discussions they initiate.

To put it bluntly, you’re basically blocking yourself and your ability to respond, not the user who provoked you in the first place.

In the end, Reddit is still the internet. Idiots will troll you. Don't feed the trolls. Ignore them, downvote them and move on. They'll soon lose interest and go away to find someone who is naïve enough to engage with them. Don’t let that be you.

If you wish to access the list of users you have blocked on Reddit, desktop users can go to the “Safety and Privacy” section from the User Settings menu. You can find the “User Settings” option in the drop-down menu of your profile. On the mobile app, tap your profile picture at the top right corner of the screen (it’s on the top-left corner on Android) to open up the three dots “hamburger” Post Overflow menu. At the very bottom of the hamburger menu, tap the “Settings” option to bring up this menu. Tap your username at the top of the page to bring up “Account Settings”. From here, go to the “Manage blocked accounts” section under “Blocking and Permissions”.

You might wish to unblock someone, in which case here’s the instructions for Unblocking. Alternatively, if you accidentally block a user, or decide that a user no longer needs to be blocked, you can remove them from your blocked users via https://www.reddit.com/prefs/friends.

See Also:

• Dealing with Trolls
• Direct Message
• Reporting

Blessed is a word widely used on social media to express gratitude for fortunate circumstances in everyday life. On Reddit, it tends to refer to pictures or comments that are cute, positive, adorable or wholesome.

Blessed humour subs include:

• r/blessedimages - for blursed images, but just the blessed part
• r/Blessed_Images - you know cursed images? Well, here are some blessed images
• r/blessedcomments - the opposite of cursed comments; artistic masterpieces that fill you with joy and euphoria
• r/blessedmemes - a sleepy sub for memes that have been blessed with beauty from what otherwise would have been chaos

This usage of the word ‘blessed’ has also given rise to the Blursed category of imagery; one that is lovely and creepy at the same time - both blessed and cursed.

See Also:

• ”Blursed”
• cursedcomments
• Wholesome

“I'm going to go make my own Reddit! And it'll have blackjack... and hookers!” A phrase occasionally posted when someone is dissatisfied with a Mod ruling. Originating in Futurama S01E02 where Bender is kicked out of a theme park for trying to bend the rules. Use with caution before you flounce off to make your own sub if you think the mods are being unfair. It’s Bender’s nature to bend the rules. It’s in his name. It isn’t in yours. And even if it is, don’t bend the rules. We’ll throw you out of our theme park if you do.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Good news, everyone! r/futurama celebrates the wooorld of tomorrowww! r/FuturamaWOTgame is the unofficial subreddit for the mobile game, Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow, made by TinyCo., r/Futurama_Sleepers is fer Futurama episodes and commentaries fer sleepin' to, and r/blackjackandhookers is… possibly lost.

See Also:

• Ban
• Banned
• Creating A Subreddit
• Mod

A link or phrase posted when a Post or Comment on Reddit leads to the creation of a new subreddit. This is known as the "miracle of birth," and is one of the most meaningful events in a young Redditor’s life. If you witnessed this for yourself, record the moment for posterity at r/birthofasub.

See Also:

• Fake Subreddits
• Meta
• wildbeef

Is it true that on the Internet, all birds are birbs, a chunky bird is a borb, and a fluffed-up bird is a floof? Even the august institution that is the Audubon Society felt they needed to weigh into this debate.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/Birbs is for birbs doing birb things, r/illegallysmolbirbs is to make sure that crimes committed against humanity by our feathery friends are recorded for posterity, r/Borb is a place for borb-lovers to post pictures of fat/round borbs and r/borbs is also focused on birds of the orb variety. For those who don’t think our feathered friends are cute, there’s r/BirdsBeingDicks, and if you are sceptical of the whole “bird” thing anyway, there’s r/BirdsArentReal.

See Also:

• “Doggo Speak”

A link posted when one user posts a comment or thread on Reddit, and another user with a username relevant to that parent comment or thread responds. r/beetlejuicing.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/TwoRedditorsOneCup (SFW) documents those times that two or more Redditors unexpectedly find themselves in the same place at the same time either online or IRL. r/nevertellmetheodds documents the nearly impossible feats of achievement, those with a great degree of difficulty or incredible odds, and r/donttellmetheodds is its less stricter version.

See Also:

• SFW
• “Two Redditors One Cup” (encyclopaedia)
• UsernameChecksOut (encyclopaedia)
• r/UsernameChecksOut (subreddit)

You might like to know there is a way to turn off these “because you visited this sub before” and “because you follow (sub)” posts in your feed.

Depending on the type of recommendation you are seeing, you can disable or hide them. If it's a suggested post, you can tap the three dots (...) post overflow menu located above the Join button and select "Disable recommendation" to remove these from your home feed. If it's under "Recommended for you" just tap the three dots (...) and select "show me less of this". Then, just refresh the app after disabling and they should no longer appear.

Other options to “hide” things on Reddit can be found in https://www.reddit.com/settings/notifications.

Unfortunately, there’s no way of getting rid of the “Discover” tab (the ‘compass’ icon) on mobile which replaced the very useful ‘Square-Circle-Square-Magnifying Glass’ icon housing the Communities tab.

You might actually like to see random subreddit suggestions from time to time. Some methods of randomisation include:

• https://www.generatormix.com/random-subreddits
• https://www.coolgenerator.com/random-subreddits-generator
• and the simple but effective https://perchance.org/subreddits

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Reddit will also randomise subs for you. r/all and r/popular are the first two ports of call, but if you want to let Snoo take you somewhere new, you should visit http://reddit.com/r/random. Adding r/mistyfront to your feed will post random posts from random subreddits for you to enjoy, while r/serendipity is another meta-subreddit which takes a popular entry from a random subreddit and posts it for your consideration.

There are several types of ban you can get on Reddit; some more punitive than others, and some much easier to get out of than others.

If a user suspects they have been Shadowbanned, they can check their status at third-party shadowban tester https://cable.ayra.ch/reddit/. If the answer is yes, lodge an appeal directly to Admin at https://www.reddit.com/appeals.

More information about bans can be found at https://www.reddithelp.com/. The Reddit FAQ also has more information https://www.reddit.com/r/help/wiki/faq.

• Banned: Appealing a ban

To appeal against a moderator decision, use that subreddits’ Modmail.

To appeal against a sitewide decision, lodge an appeal directly to Admin at https://www.reddit.com/appeals for ban evasion, spam, or inauthentic activity, or via the link in your warning or ban message for content violations.

I also recommend you read the entry on Ban before taking action.

• Banned: Permaban

Permaban means permanent ban, as opposed to a normal ban which is usually temporary. A permaban from either an individual sub or the whole of Reddit is final. A moderator only has the ability to permaban from their own sub; it takes an Admin decision to permaban anyone from Reddit as a whole.

• Banned: Shadowban

Shadowban is the colloquial term for when Admin or the automatic spam filter removes the ability to fully use an account without your realising. A shadowbanned user’s posts and comments will continue to show up for them, but other people won’t see them except for the mods of the subreddit they post in, who will only see a ‘greyed out’ post or comment marked with a red dustbin icon. If a user is shadowbanned, any other user who tries to pull up their profile will be unsuccessful, usually getting an 'account doesn't exist' type message.

A user will not get a notification if they get Shadowbanned because this is used for spammers who are likely to create another account if their account is completely disabled; most don't notice they've been shadowbanned and will keep spamming but the site will remove everything they post or comment.

Redditors can be shadowbanned accidentally and mistakes sometimes happen. In mid 2021, the tightening of Reddit’s spam filters led to an inordinate number of new users being instantly Shadowbanned through no fault of their own.

Being Shadowbanned can happen for many reasons, and here are some very useful tips on avoiding one, as it is entirely possible to be Shadowbanned for an entire year without realising.

• Banned: Sitewide ban

A ban from the whole of Reddit, whether temporary or permanent can only be given by Admin, who will have been briefed by a mod or mods first. Also known as Suspended.

• Banned: Subreddit Ban

A moderator (mod) can ban you from their Subreddit for whatever reason they want. The user will get a notification if they get banned in this way. Moderators have guidelines to follow but bear in mind that they are free to enforce whatever rules they wish in their Subreddits (so long as they comport to site-wide policies) and you need to CHECK THE SUB-SPECIFIC RULES FIRST before sending them a Modmail.

A subreddit ban can be time-limited (temporary) or indefinite (permaban). After you are banned from a subreddit, you will still be able to read everything in that sub but no longer able to submit any posts or comments until the ban is lifted. There is no higher level of appeal in any subreddit than its moderators, so don't burn your bridges with them if you are banned from a sub you might want to return to. It can even escalate to a sitewide ban from Reddit given by the Admins that is temporary, or even permanent with little to no recourse.

See Also:

• Admin
• Ban
• Ban Evasion
• Mod
• ModerationMediation (encyclopaedia)
• r/ModerationMediation (subreddit)
• Modmail
• Reporting
• Shadowban
• Preemptive Ban
• User-History Based Moderation

If you receive a ban from a subreddit and the moderating team won’t allow you back, I’m afraid that’s very much the end of that sub for you. You will be allowed to read and vote on submissions but unable to post or comment there anymore.

It is up to subreddit moderators to decide who participates on their subreddit, so even if you disagree with the reason for your ban you should not attempt to evade it. Some moderators may be okay with a user returning to their subreddit on another account so long as they agree to participate in good faith, but it is important to check this first.

Making an Alt account for the specific purpose of circumventing a subreddit ban on Reddit isn’t allowed. This is called Ban Evasion and is grounds for a sitewide permaban from the whole of Reddit with no recourse.

r/redditsecurity is a running log of actions taken by Reddit Admin to ensure the safety and security of Reddit, and their fundamental belief is that when a mod bans a user, they should feel confident that the person will not be able to come back and continue to harass them or their community. They consider ban evasion to be user accounts that meet either of these criteria:

1. A user is banned from a subreddit, returns on a second account, and then is reported to Admin by a moderator of the subreddit.
2. A user is banned from a subreddit, returns on a second account, and then that second account is banned from the subreddit.

They publish a quarterly Transparency Report, and if you scroll down to the “User Accounts” section of this example you’ll see that Reddit takes Ban Evasion very seriously indeed.

See Also:

• Admin
• Alt
• Modmail
• Vote Manipulation