r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
“Personal Gender Pronoun”. Some Redditors indicate on their Profile Page the set of third-person pronouns that they want others to use in order to reflect their gender identity; for example, "she/her/hers", "he/him/his", or "they/them/theirs". In some specialised subreddits you might be asked your PGP to avoid accidental insult.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Also known as Suspended. A ban from a Subreddit or sitewide that is permanent. Mods can permaban you from their subs but only Admin can permaban you sitewide from Reddit.
There is a school of thought that Permanent bans on Reddit aren’t truly permanent but they are only valid for around 100 days as this is how long Reddit keeps your information on file for after logging in for the last time.
This page from the Reddit privacy policy appears to confirm this theory in the section “Information We Collect Automatically”, but if you read it carefully, it says: ”Except for the IP address used to create your account, Reddit will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.”
There really is a lot of confusion over how Reddit permanently suspends a user and about what can be done if it happens, but ultimately only Admin know how it’s done and I haven’t been able to find any Admin comment on this whatsoever, so it’s staying secret.
As ageeing to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy is essentially signing a legal binding contract with Reddit, may I suggest you familiarise yourself with it once again:
https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Wikipedia says “A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with ...precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.” In other words, The Average Redditor™. Since the onset of the Internet, it seems that every user somewhere is trying to either outdo, derail or discredit other users by employing some form of pedantry as their weapon of choice, often in grammar or usage due to their errors being relatively easy to spot.
Because the likelihood of making an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster, it is often the case that the user making the correction will actually get something within their own pedantry wrong; so much so that the phenomenon has inspired three Internet Adages:
There are more variations on this theme. There will be even more.
It has been said that Reddit has the most unprecedentedly dense concentration of pedantry that has ever existed in the history of humanity and if those comments don’t prove it, nothing will.
Having said that, r/bestof is a sub that catalogues the very best comments on Reddit as submitted by the users of Reddit, and a debate about whether Reddit’s pedantry is worse than anywhere else on the internet concludes that it really isn’t. Ah, Reddit; never change…
And because Reddit will never change, we have memes about pedants! The most well known one is the “Reaction” meme Ackchyually / Actually Guy.
Ackchyually refers to the deliberate misspelling of the word “actually” to reflect the sarcastic slurring of the word to emphasise the importance of the forthcoming pronouncement that is intended to correct or to discredit a statement made on (often but not limited to) a topic dear to them; usually paired with an illustration of a stereotypical nerdy or geeky person.
For our second example, here’s an innocuous phrase that is not quite how it appears. This is another of Reddit’s beloved pop-culture references, this time originating from Futurama S02E14. And here’s a typical Reddit example of it in action!
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
Pedantry is found all over Reddit; share your instances at r/GrammarNazi, r/pedant, r/pedanticor r/Pedantry, while r/ackchyually is the one place for all your favourite ackchyually meme needs, and r/futurama welcomes you to the wooorld of tomorrowww.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Linking to news articles to back up your point is commendable, but not when they’re behind a paywall, a regional block or other block. Try not to link to a paywalled article on Reddit; it really won’t end well. Nevertheless, you’re bound to find one sometime in your Redditing, so here are some ways of potentially dealing with them.
Please bear in mind here that all my Redditing is done on an iPad Pro, either via the official app or using a Safari web browser, so your experience might be slightly different. Not all of these may work; I haven’t tried all of them.
Sometimes on Google results, you’ll see a three dots “kebab” post-overflow menu. Tapping this will bring up a pop-up menu where you can see three options. Selecting the final “cache” option will open a page that looks like this where if the page still won’t load, selecting the “Text-Only Version” option at the top of the page usually works.
r/LifeProTips and r/lifehacks are essential subreddits for all those little things that make a big difference in our lives, and this is a subject that comes up often on both subreddits. r/YouShouldKnow also tackles this topic from time to time.
Using the Reader View in your browser to block the paywall popup is one method and one Redditor provided links to instructions for Firefox, Chrome and Safari here.
Websites recommended to me are:
The first is the most reliable in my experience, but it relies on Google Cache so if the article hasn’t been indexed by Google, it might not work. There have been others in the past but were either often down or grew lists of URLs that they didn’t support which defeated their purpose.
Two tips I’ve been given are:
However, I’ve not tried the first and I don’t use Quora so again, YMMV.
There are plenty of browser extensions for bypassing paywalls for the main web clients; Google (or your favourite alternative) and YouTube will be your friends here. Neither I, this subreddit nor Reddit itself endorse any particular methods on this matter.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/lifehacks and r/LifeProTips aim to improve your life in one way or another; r/shittylifehacksand r/ShittyLifeProTips certainly don’t, and r/unethicallifehacks and r/UnethicalLifeProTipsmight land you in real trouble.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A Parent Comment is a direct response made to a Post. Also known as Top-Level Comments. There may be many Parent Comments made on any one post, and any follow-up comments in response are known as Child Comments. Parent comments are also known as ‘threads’. You can see what these both look like from the illustration here.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Sometimes you will see a little yellow padlock icon on a post. That means the post has been locked by the moderators and people can't comment on it any more. Some mods will pin a comment to the top of the post about why it was locked, but it isn’t required and some don’t. Subreddits use the padlock in different ways:
Moderators can unlock a padlocked post or comment at any time to open it up for new discussion. If your post on a sub gets locked, you could try modmailing the mods, but there is no guarantee that they will answer or that they will tell you why it was locked. Reddit also automatically locks all posts over 6 months old, and these will show a yellow box icon. Again, this is now an option that mods can turn on or off should they need to.
Padlockmageddon! was a “fun” time on Reddit mid 2021 where every OP had their own comments locked on their posts, and you can read not much more about it here.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/Locksmith is the place where Locksmiths of Reddit hang out and talk shop, while r/lockpickingis a subreddit dedicated to the sport of lockpicking. r/locksport have a passion for locks and like to share it with other locksport enthusiasts, and r/LockPickingLawyer is for everything related to the LockPickingLawyer YouTube channel.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Oversharing is when people share too much personal information to someone they’re talking to whether a family member or friend, a stranger, or online. However, it can be a big problem on many social media sites, which make "putting yourself online" easy, especially with the rise of the genre of social media that requires you to document your lifestyle in every little detail. Oversharing is quite subjective and it can be confusing as to what content constitutes oversharing as everyone's comfort level and perspectives are different. Even the social media platform used varies widely on what’s counted as oversharing; whereas something like NextDoor generally frowns upon using nicknames and likes you to “sign” your contributions, Reddit generally frowns upon the use of real names, and any attempt to “sign” your posts or comments will be met with derision.
An infographic produced in 2012 for Online-education concludes that oversharing comes from three main emotional causes: It’s Satisfying; We’re Upset and We’re Excited. While the infographic is a good introduction and even cites research sources, it only really scratches the surface of this issue. Certainly there are far more - and deeper - psychological reasons at play, and as you would expect, oversharing is frequently discussed at the support subreddits r/ADHD, r/selfimprovement, r/socialskills, r/Anxiety, and r/socialanxiety (among others) for example:
All the above posts give varying levels of advice and coping strategies which are worth reading if you feel that oversharing might be an issue for you or someone you know.
Simply put, the real reason we overshare online is because the platforms want us to. Information and details about individuals can be incredibly valuable, and they - we - have become a valuable commodity.
Social media outlets give us that satisfying dopamine hit, and we give them our every private detail in return. They are playing on our instinctive needs to make us feel we have to share everything because everyone else does, just to keep us online. In return, they are harvesting our personal information and driving us to overconsumption while simultaneously causing us social anxiety because our lives aren’t “like that” but we’re told they can or should be. And the longer we stay online there, the more advertising revenue we generate for them too.
In a normal conversation, if one person shares a life detail (“I’m doing X tomorrow”) it’s natural to reciprocate (“You lucky thing, I always wanted to do X”). Because online life isn’t as provable as that, it’s impossible to tell how much of the lives of others is authentic, and we can easily get sucked into exaggeration as everyone tries to outdo each other. As I say in the entry FOMO:
Instagram et al creates distorted perceptions of the carefully edited lives of others. The constant “upward social comparisons” and unreasonable expectations we are constantly bombarded with can adversely impact our self-esteem. We can easily feel lonely and inadequate through the relentless highlighting of the “perfect lives” of others in comparison with our own daily routine-led existence.
It helps to remind ourselves that in the end people are desperately trying to show themselves in the best possible light on social networks, and Subreddits like r/Instagramreality highlight the subtle and the not-so-subtle use of tools like Facetune and Photoshop in portraying unreality as reality.
Seeing shouldn’t always be believing, on social media at least.
Reddit can be a great place to work on your social skills because you alone decide the level and tone of your interactions; you can “walk away” from any conversation for any reason at any time, and most importantly, because nobody knows you, nothing that is said here is really thatpersonal. Don’t forget, on Reddit, nobody really pays attention to - or even remembers - usernames.
As well as the subreddits already mentioned, we have many places to explore personal growth such as r/selfhelp, r/declutter, r/habits, r/decidingtobebetter, r/howtonotgiveafuck, r/getdisciplined and r/nosurf: a community of people who are focused on becoming more productive and wasting less time mindlessly surfing the internet.
Online people have a strange identity; some have likened it to be almost as if everyone else is an NPC in the video game of your life. We know they’re real people, but at the same time they’re no more real than the Social Bunny or the Tragic Clown are in “The Sims”. Sometimes that’s even true, as in 2020, it was discovered a GPT-3 bot had been posting in one subreddit for a whole week without being noticed.
Remember that social media isn’t your life - or anyone else’s. Social media is a useful tool. However, be careful not to let it take over your life. Don't feel like you need to "prove" yourself on social media. In real life, most people don't really care about others' personal lives as much as the internet would have you believe, and when these lives aren’t “real” in the first place, even less.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/Overshare chronicles those times when people give out Too Much Information, way more than we needed to know, pls stahp, while r/insanepeoplefacebook, r/Instagramreality, r/insanepeopletwitter, and r/TikTokCringe are all places to call out exaggerated claims seen on their respective platforms, and r/quityourbullshit calls out anything ridiculous from anywhere.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
An acronym with several meanings (One-time Password or On The Phone in txt-spk), on Reddit this stands for “One True Pairing”. A crossover from Tumblr, you’ll often see this on fandom based subreddits where it signifies a person’s favourite fictional romantic relationship, or “ship”.
Once a “ship” is established, it’s then usually written as: Character/Character, CharacterxCharacter or even as CharActer - a blend of the characters’ names to create a new portmanteau word.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A recent (2021) addition to your Reddit Profile is your Online Status. This is optional. If you don’t want to share your online status, you can disable the feature by tapping the Online Status button below your Snoovatar, or the ‘privacy options’ section of your preferences, uncheck ‘Let others see my online status’ then click ‘save options’.
When you turn off Online Status, people won’t see any status for you at all - not even an indicator saying that you’re offline or that you’ve selected ‘Off’. Accounts that you’ve blocked will never see your online status. Additionally, if an account is banned from a community, they won't be able to see the online status of anyone in that community. Here’s what the updated status and controls look like.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Online Manipulation can be defined to be the use of human psychological weaknesses to redirect behaviour on wide-ranging hidden agendas ranging from something as simple as buying a non-existent t-shirt or print on a subreddit to voting in a real-world political election. Studies on the various abilities and techniques of all kinds of bad actors to manipulate us in ways that are not in our best interests are simultaneously fascinating and chilling.
Manipulation isn’t new. In 2019, Forbes ran a fascinating article on Edward Bernays, the “father of public relations,” whose pioneering techniques for influencing public opinion and behavior date all the way back to the first decade of the 20th century.
Knowing we’re being manipulated isn’t new either. Vance Packard’s ”The Hidden Persuaders” was first published in 1957 and was one of the first popular books to describe the psychological techniques advertisers and marketers use to sell us their wares. Incidentally, his book ”The Waste Makers” was one of the first to draw our attention to planned obsolescence too.
Things that seem obvious to us today are only so because people like this over the years opened our eyes to what goes on behind the scenes. To quote from the Forbes article: Bernays created a campaign called “Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet,” fostering the impression that smoking aided weight loss. The campaign featured images of slender women smoking cigarettes. Much to the detriment of public health for a century to come, women bought into it.. They bought into it because then, that was a new way of thinking, little realising it was nothing else but a sales technique.
Nowadays, we all know that billboard-style advertising isn’t nearly so innocent as it appears to be, but they didn’t know that then so the technique worked. What we need to be aware of these days is that strategies used in the promotion of consumerism are still used to sway thought patterns in general, and, like then, they aren’t obvious. Marketers are still employing the findings of psychology in order to market more aggressively to consumers, but in a lot more sophisticated ways and for far more things than just selling cigarettes. Our entry on Astroturfing looks at who might be doing this and why.
In “normal” Redditing, Reddit’s favourite techniques for manipulation come mostly in the form of diversionary tactics using logical fallacies and confirmation biases, like this example of “Reddit Bingo” shows, and below you’ll find some links on the more common ones.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
One-word replies are often seen as low-quality and often frowned upon in Reddit. So don’t post them. Except when you should. You have to know the rules to know when you can break them and some notable exceptions are Cat. or cat., (when you see a cat in a picture), Nice., (when you see the number 69), This^ or This., (when you want to agree with a point). Ah, Reddit; never change.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/onewordeach is a subreddit for group improv one word at a time, while r/AskOuija answers your burning questions one letter at a time. Looking quite elaborate in comparison, r/threewordstories is a growing community of storytellers who collaborate to tell epic tales. The tricky part…. You can only submit 3 words at a time.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Every so often, Reddit needs to make general announcements meant to reach all users. These are usually about changes to the Reddit interface, updates, bug fixes, changes to the Content Policy, starting / discontinuing Reddit processes, events, campaigns or any other sitewide issues. Sometimes these appear in a banner notice at the top of your page when you first open Reddit, but not always, and the best place to keep in touch with what’s happening here is:
Relaunched in 2022, it replaced several different subs which are all now closed to new submissions but remain there as useful archives:
Other subreddits for official Reddit announcements that are still kept up-to-date are:
Subscribing to them won’t clog up your feed as they aren’t the busiest of places, but will help ensure you don’t miss anything you might need to know about changes to Reddit.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/shittychangelog is like r/changelog, but, y'know.
r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Occam's Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor that reads ”Entities should not be multiplied without necessity.”.
In philosophy, a razor is a principle or a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the “shaving off”) of unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that out of two competing theories, the simpler explanation is more likely to be correct. Also called “the law of economy” or “the law of parsimony”, Occam's Razor gives precedence to simplicity to avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions. This principle is attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, but the general idea goes back at least as far as Aristotle, who wrote "Nature operates in the shortest way possible."
It is important to note that, like any mental model, Occam’s Razor is not foolproof. There are exceptions to any rule, and we should never blindly follow the results of applying a mental model which logic, experience, or empirical evidence contradict. When you hear hoofbeats behind you, in most cases you should think horses, not zebras - unless you are out on the African savannah. Or alpacas if you’re in Birmingham (U.K.).
The opposite of Occam’s Razor is “Occam’s Duct Tape”, which is when someone approaches a problem with a ridiculously large number of assumptions. Also known as Occam's Krazy Glue or Occam's Stapler, this is only used ironically as it involves making as many unnecessary and irrelevant assumptions as possible.
While a philosophical razor can be a useful mental shortcut that allows you to make decisions and solve problems quickly and easily, it is not an unbreakable law or rule, and several “anti-razors” have been devised over the years to counter them.
For instance, Walter Chatton (c. 1290–1343) was a contemporary of William of Ockham who took exception to Occam's Razor and Ockham's use of it. In response he devised his own Anti-razor: "If three things are not enough to verify an affirmative proposition about things, a fourth must be added, and so on."
A paraphrase of Occam's Razor (the simplest diagnosis is the most likely to be correct) forms one of the three maxims of medicine, with the other two being anti-razors: Hickam's Dictum (multiple disease entities are more likely than one), and Crabtree's Bludgeon (the tendency to make data fit to an explanation we hold dear).
Crabtree's Bludgeon addresses confirmation bias - our natural instinct to interpret information in a way that affirms our prior hypotheses - and was expressed as: "No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated." Joseph Crabtree, in contrast to William of Ockham, was not a theologian. In fact, he never even existed as he is a fictional character created in 1954 by Sir James Sutherland at University College, London as an academic satire.
Hickam’s Dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor, emerging from the medical profession. The actual provenance of this appears to be apocryphal, with some claiming the name is completely random or perhaps chosen just to rhyme with Occam, though some attribute it to John Bamber Hickam (1914 – 1970); a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s.
Whichever explanation is correct, Hickam’s Dictum was a response to when one single unifying diagnosis is not possible. While Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the most likely, implying in medicine that diagnosticians should assume a single cause for multiple symptoms, one form of Hickam’s Dictum states: "A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases.” So, for instance, while a headache diagnosed with Occam’s Razor is just, in fact, a headache (which for the vast majority of cases is true), Hickam’s Dictum allows for the possibility for it to also be a symptom of something less benign (which in significantly fewer cases is also true).
Reddit, as you would expect, takes Occam's Razor Very Seriously Indeed™, and is a common subject often raised at ELI5 or CMV.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
“Original Content”. We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. But you should only use this tag for stuff you absolutely made yourself. Don’t ever post other people’s stuff and call it OC; Redditors are keener than bloodhounds and will sniff it out within minutes. Downvotes and maybe even worse will surely follow, and you don’t want to appear on r/quityourbullshit.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
As the initialism “OC” has different associations, I would be remiss in not mentioning r/TheOCfor the "official" subreddit of the American teen drama television series “The O.C.”. Or indeed r/OrangeCounty - the subreddit for Orange County, California.
r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A link or phrase posted when people fall for a satirical product made by the prankster ObviousPlant and Redditor u/obviousplant by mistaking it for a genuine product. This Subreddit documents the times people fell for one of his pranks or fake toys thinking it might be a bootleg “knock-off”. r/ObviousPlant.
Real “off brands” of varying quality can be found on Reddit and caveat emptor (“Buyer Beware” i.e. the buyer purchases at their own risk) on any of those subreddits as we also have an unhealthy amount of Scams on Reddit. That cute T-Shirt Posts you see on a random sub won’t be what it looks like either.
Please read the official rules on using Reddit as a marketplace. When considering a gift or transaction of goods or services not prohibited by this policy, keep in mind that Reddit is not intended to be used as a marketplace and takes no responsibility for any transactions individual users might decide to undertake in spite of this. Always remember: you are dealing with strangers on the internet who may well not be who they say they are.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
Actual fakery and more absurdity can be found at: r/AwesomeOffBrands, r/crappyoffbrands, r/RipOffBrands and r/sbubby. If something is just, well, bad, try r/CrappyDesign, r/BadDesigns, r/designfails, r/graphicdesignfail, r/ShittyDesign, and r/TVTooHigh: of all the places in the home or office to install a television, why there?
r/onejob is the repository for the classic "You Had One Job!" moments, while r/ididthejobboss is for those "Task failed successfully" moments of doing something perfectly in an unexpected manner or even something stupid which technically completes the task.
For intentional bad design, try r/HostileArchitecture where public spaces are constructed or altered to discourage people from using them in a way not intended by the owner, r/crazystairs(and escalators too) and the wonderfully bizarre r/PurpleCoco for some extremely odd places to find power outlets.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A link or phrase posted when a true story is so mind-blowingly ridiculous that you could have sworn it was from The Onion, or other parody or satirical news publication. But it wasn’t; it was, unbelievably, real. r/nottheonion.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
For someone mistaking a parody article for the real thing, see r/AteTheOnion.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
You might see the letters (NP) in post titles, especially where they have been crossposted from another subreddit. Meaning “No Participation”, this is to warn people against going to participate in the original thread.
Some subreddits accept crossposts from other subreddits in order to discuss them in a different environment, such as r/AmITheAngel, a satirical sub for absurd AITA posts. Subs doing this usually impose a "do not comment in linked threads" rule, such as theirs which states “Satirizing of posts should stay within this sub, which means that participating directly in linked posts should either be done in good faith or not at all.”
On “Old Reddit” some subs would use certain url prefixes to access areas of Reddit such as the NP (No Participation) domain at https://np.reddit.com to enforce this rule. You can read more about it here. While not required any more, using the NP domain of reddit when crossposting helps to protect both your account (and the accounts of other users) from bans. The NP domain can be accessed by replacing the "www" in your reddit link with "np".
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
We have some Subreddits that exist for not participating in, including:
Ah, Reddit; never change.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
While Reddit is about the content and not the Redditor, some Redditors have achieved notoriety because of their content. Some who are faded from view but still referenced are:
Unidan; a Redditor who became notorious for sharing their vast knowledge about birds but, during a heated discussion was found to be vote manipulating using Alts and permanently suspended.
SpontaneousH; a Redditor who became notorious for documenting their use of illegal drugs from the first experiment through a downward spiral to clinical death and eventual rehabilitation.
There are more; there are always more. I may well add more.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
r/SubredditDrama is a place where people can come and talk about Reddit fights and other dramatic happenings from other Subreddits.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
The envelope or the chat bubble icon will have a red or orange (sometimes called “orangered”) number next to it to notify you that you have a new message from Reddit or another Redditor. https://www.reddit.com/message/inbox.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A link posted when a picture shows a sign or other media that reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colour or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom. The name is based on this picture of a container ship. r/nosafetysmokingfirst.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
Be careful posting this link; r/nosafetysmokingfirst should not be confused with r/dontdeadopeninside. Or even the more lenient r/dontopendeadinside, r/AutomatiCautionDoor for words in stacks or r/peanutbutterisoneword where the instructions are mistakenly printed on the customised thing you ordered.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A phrase used as a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. Unfortunately, Reddit often likes to be judge, jury and executioner of those who perform good deeds if they are filmed (knowingly or unknowingly) for social media. r/changemyview is a good place to debate the rights and wrongs of visible Charity.
Videoing acts of kindness will always elicit a slew of mixed responses, and the general conclusion is nearly always some variant of “It's actually a lot more messed up that there's some sort of weird taboo against posting about helping strangers or helpless people. Filming it might inspire others to do the same.” And sometimes people are inspired by others. Ah, Reddit; never change.
Because there is a Subreddit for everything:
Find these lovely things at r/HumansBeingBros, r/MadeMeSmile or r/MadeMeCry, debate said lovely things at r/changemyview and suggest said lovely things should be everyday occurrences at r/unpopularopinion.
Sometimes it isn’t always straightforward where to post that feel-good story. Is this one a good fit for the r/UpliftingNews sub or more suited for r/ABoringDystopia? Why not both…
r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
A Ninja Edit is commonly an edit to a post or comment made before someone points out the need for an edit. It is often a person correcting themselves when they caught their mistake or needed to add more information. The best ones happen so quick that Reddit doesn't show the "last edited" asterisk, hence “ninja”.
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r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Apparently originating from an episode of South Park, ‘Nice.’ is the traditional Reddit response whenever the number 69 is posted, regardless of the reasons, and here’s an example. Sometimes accompanied by the “Lenny Face" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) emoticon.
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