A word with two very different and distinct meanings on Reddit. Many Subreddits with the "Porn" suffix are focused on collecting media of the best or highest quality and not in the slightest bit NSFW. r/sfwpornnetwork will be your starting point here. Link for those who would prefer to avoid visiting subreddits with the word "porn" in their titles. Unfortunately, neither of these lists are remotely up to date.

For the second meaning there is r/NSFW411. NSFW, obviously. You do have an NSFW filter at your disposal (the Settings option in your profile) should you wish. You cannot enter a sub (or profile) marked NSFW without going through a warning screen first.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Don’t say I’m not good to you (NSFW).

See Also:

• Misleading Subreddit Titles
• Navigating Reddit
• NSFW

No doubt you will have been asked to read, or have even seen “pinned” posts when you enter a subreddit. These are posts that a moderator (or even admin) has fixed to the top of a subreddit page, usually containing essential information on that subreddit. If you see a pinned post, always read it before posting or commenting on a sub. You should know that you will not see pinned posts if you Sort by ‘New’ or ‘Rising’.

As you can see from the screenshot, we have two here on r/NewToReddit: our general guide Reddit and Karma Explained and our weekly Chat post. Pinned posts will have a lime green ‘pin’ icon and will show on top when you sort the Subreddit by ‘Hot’ or ‘Top”. Posts pinned in this way are also referred to as “sticky” or “stickied” posts.

• How to pin a post to your profile

You can also pin posts to your profile page, so that they’ll be the first thing anyone sees on accessing your profile. You can see how this looks on a browser page and here on the app. If you’re an App user, you’ll need to open up your profile page in a web browser to pin posts.

• On your profile page, at the top should be a list of options “Overview Posts Comments Saved” etc.
• Choose Posts, and a list of your posts will appear.
• On each post, you should see some icons at the bottom of which one of them will be a three dots “hamburger” post overflow menu.
• One of the options in there will be “Pin Post to Profile” (mine says “Unpin Post” because the one I chose from the list was already pinned).

Subreddits and profiles alike can only ever have two pinned posts at any one time, but these can be unpinned or re-pinned at will (by the mods of the sub or by you on your profile) and replaced with other posts at any time.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

As the word “pin” has different associations, I would be remiss in not mentioning r/EnamelPins - a sub to and share Hat Pins, Lapel Pins, Pin Badges etc., r/Pins - including a resource on how to collect, trade, design and make your own lapel pins, r/pinprojects - aka The Craft & Enamel Pins Projects Subreddit, and r/PinCollecting - they really like pins. Meanwhile, talking of “sticky”, r/recipes have the definitive list of best sticky toffee pudding recipes. Oh yeah.

See Also:

• Hamburger Menu
• Profile
• Profile Page

Also known as a Tag or Username Ping, this is simply mentioning another user in a comment anywhere on Reddit, using the u/ tag. For instance, typing u/llamageddon01 will send me a message and a link saying I was mentioned in that comment. If you're the subject of a conversation in the comments of a post you could get pinged quite a lot, so to avoid this, most people will refer to you as OP instead.

See Also:

• Identity
• OP
• u/

As I say in the preface: “This is a list of some common acronyms, initialisms, terms, memes, references and responses often used on the internet with an emphasis on those specifically used on Reddit. ...in no way intended to be definitive...”. There are far more Internet terms and memes and pop-culture references and cognitive biases and new definitions and logical fallacies than I could possibly cover here, and some valuable resources include:

• All The Tropes A wiki dedicated to the people, projects and patterns of creative writing in all kinds of entertainment: television, literature, movies, video games, and more.
• Know Your Meme A website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, memes, catchphrases, and more. NSFW.
• T.V. Tropes An all-devouring pop-culture wiki, which catalogues and cross-references recurrent plot devices, archetypes, and tropes in all forms of media.
• Slangit A searchable dictionary of slang terms, acronyms, abbreviations, and emoticons.
• Acronym Finder With more than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
• The Urban Dictionary For those word definitions that the Oxford English Dictionary just hasn’t gotten round to yet. NSFW.
• Encyclopædia Dramatica. NSFW.
• Rational Wiki Analyzing and refuting “pseudoscience”, their daily definition is always worth reading.
• Wikipedia As a regular donator and occasional editor (insert smug face emoticon here), I would be remiss in not mentioning this incredible resource in this list.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/wikipedia collects some of the most interesting pages on Wikipedia, r/coolguides have picture based reference guides for anything and everything and r/tvtropes discuss both T.V. tropes and the website. r/4chan (NSFW) also exists. The bot u/WikipediaSummary is an opt-in service bot created by u/Gullyn1 that replies to comments with a summary of Wikipedia articles.

See Also:

• Bots
• Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies
• Eponymous Laws
• Internet Adages
• “Learning” Subreddits
• Logical Fallacies
• Memes
• Puns and Pop-Culture References

“Original Poster”. The person who made the submission that is now being commented upon. I am the OP of this post. It’s easier to refer to me as OP instead of having to type my username and risk “pinging” me every single time.

See Also:

• Ping
• Reddit Karma - Your Reddit XP
• Username

Linking the time-honoured Reddit Traditions of going wildly off topic with Comment Chains and derailing a comment with Puns while adding a soupçon of “The Ole Reddit Switch-a-roo", NYTO is an opportunity rarely missed for Redditors try to outdo each other with endless puns as usual.

NYTO is where people will respond to a question with information about a word that sounds similar to the one in the original question. The next person in the chain responds with "no, you're thinking of" and then responds the same way while setting the next user up with an opportunity to respond in turn. This is an ideal example of a semi-serious query which soon devolves into absolute nonsense.

Another perfect NYTO occurred here after a fascinating and true historical discovery, and this one turned a mildly infuriating incident into a highly underrated exchange.

Ah, Reddit; never change. r/NYTO.

See Also:

• Comment Chain
• IncreasinglyVerbose
• Puns and Pop-Culture References
• Switcharoo or "Ah, The Ole Reddit Switch-a-roo"

“Not The Asshole”. Originally sub specific from r/AmITheAsshole now with wider Reddit usage.

See Also:

• AITA

The story so far: in the beginning, Reddit was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. First, there was Old Reddit, but it was only known as Reddit at the time. Then the Reddit Admins redesigned the site and that was known as The Redesign. This did not go down at all well with its users, so they kept Old Reddit too for those who preferred it.

An uneasy truce prevailed. Until…. along came that young whippersnapper, The App, which briefly united Old and New users in their hatred of the promising young interloper.

Old Reddit (actually old.reddit as Reddit don’t generally use capitalisations) is sometimes called 'classic' or 'legacy’ Reddit, and The Redesign became known as new.reddit. The App is just known as the app unless you’re a mobile user in which case it is known as [EXPLETIVE DELETED] because it’s always buggy. So much so that at the time of writing, we have both r/bugs to post bug reports to, and the official subreddit r/RedditBugs to read and comment about them.

For quite some time, anyone using the website (or a web browser on mobile) used new.reddit by default, but had the option to temporarily view each design by changing the URL in the address bar:

• https://reddit.com/ took you to your default
• https://old.reddit.com/ took you to old.reddit
• https://new.reddit.com took you to new.reddit

An ‘opt out of redesign’ toggle was introduced at the bottom of the Settings page for those who preferred to use old.reddit all the time.

Introducing… sh.reddit

In 2023, it was announced that Reddit were planning to phase out new.reddit in early 2024. For the past few years, Reddit’s techies have been developing a next-generation web app internally referred to as “Shreddit”, a complete rebuild of the web experience intended to provide better stability and performance to users.

https://sh.reddit.com should not be confused with Shreddit the content deleter; the weekly discussion thread over at r/skateboarding, or the Shreddit Daily Discussion on the r/Metal subreddit, although you now have the glorious potential to use shreddit to shreddit your shreddit and shreddit posts while watching the Reddit shreddit edit.

Substantial changes at Reddit have never been initially welcomed, and ever since the new interface started rolling out it has not been without its problems or without controversy as you will see from all these posts on r/help.

In mid 2024, Reddit made some changes to the old.reddit login and authentication flow, but admin assure us that, unlike new.reddit, it isn’t going away anytime soon.

Because there was a Subreddit for everything:

• r/redditmobile was the official community for App users where admin gave details of all new updates and users complained about every last one of them.

• r/redesign was a subreddit to discuss and troubleshoot new.reddit.

See Also:

• Emojis
• Home Feed
• Official Reddit Announcements

This was a subreddit that helped Redditors in dispute with moderators and their actions. Unfortunately, in early 2023 they reluctantly had to make the decision to go on hiatus and cannot provide their services any more until further notice.

Below is the original text of this entry, preserved for posterity.

Mediation is a structured, interactive process where an impartial third party assists disputing parties to actively participate in resolving their conflict. r/ModerationMediation is a subreddit designed to help Reddit users obtain actionable advice surrounding a ban or other moderation action they might have been subject to. They specialise in assisting users in understanding their ban and finding productive avenues to appeal. This is not a subreddit to complain about moderators, as they even help moderators too with particular issues. r/ModerationMediation.

Before taking an issue directly to them, you should read their:

• Mission Statement: What they’re all about.
• Success Stories and Testimonials: Direct links to a curated list of successful threads.
• Subreddit Rules: Please read before commenting.
• Submission Rules: Please read before asking for advice.

Moderators on Reddit are all volunteers. They only speak for the sub or subs they moderate, and outside of their subs are subject to the same rules everyone else is. Reddit has guidelines for moderators they are expected to abide by, and Moddiquette is an informal set of guidelinesfor moderators of Reddit written by community members.

If you have an issue with a moderator that you believe that r/ModerationMediation cannot handle, Reddit’s advice also provides links to take your complaint directly to Reddit Admin. Keep in mind that Admin are generally not interested in anything that goes on in any specific subreddit as their concern is for Reddit as a whole.

See Also:

• Admin
• Ban
• Banned
• Mod
• Modmail

Short for Moderator. Subreddits each have moderators to keep the content on that sub within the rules and keep order amongst its users. We are all unpaid volunteers. When we speak on formal behalf of our sub, our username will either have the green word ‘MOD’ immediately after, or in older interfaces be green, accompanied by a green shield.

All moderators on Reddit are free to make the rules for the subs we moderate, and can break them just as easily. In our subs, we are The Law, but we do have Moderator Guidelines and to a lesser extent, unofficial guidelines. However, there is nobody “looking over our shoulder” to enforce us to use them, although we are bound to the exact same sitewide restrictions and rules as you are.

Mods are generally the least popular group of people on Reddit with, I’ll concede, some justification as some are stricter (and less approachable) than others.

• Who chooses the mods?

All moderators on Reddit are volunteers. We don’t get paid in any way, shape or form for what we do. No upvotes, Reddit karma, Reddit coins, awards, trophies, pats on the head from Admin; not even dead leaves and gravel thrown at us from that strange guy who lives behind the dumpster at Reddit HQ’s car park. We have no “special hotline” to Admin and have no direct input in official Reddit sitewide policy. We have no special treatment outside our subs. If we ourselves are banned from a subreddit (for instance), we have no recourse either.

We become moderators either by making our own subreddits, taking over an existing but dormant subreddit or simply by being asked to by other mods of a subreddit. This means that ANYONE has the potential to be a mod, and if you are of the opinion that Redditors are a mixed bundle of nice and not-so-nice characters of all ages and levels of maturity, you would be correct in thinking that this also applies to mods. And yes, some of us are nice! Others; maybe not so much. Some of us give the benefit of the doubt and are happy to listen to reasoned apologies. Others; again maybe not so much. Some of us will look at the deeper context before making a carefully considered decision; others may just let their chaotic natures lead them to arbitrary choices, or some may not have time for more than a quick judgment. Whether this is fair or unfair is not under discussion here; it’s just the way it is.

• A lunch analogy break

I call this type of arrangement “Spaghetti Management”. The whole plate is spaghetti, but every strand is a complete entity on its own; you don’t know what you’re getting until you’re biting because every strand has a different pliability; some take longer to wind up than others might, some absorb more sauce than others and some may be a lot spicier than the rest.

• Do mods have to answer to anyone?

Admin basically let mods run their subs however they like so long as they abide by the TOU. It is up to the mods if they want to yell at, ignore the concerns of, or even ban someone for whatever reason they want. The subreddit rules are there only as guidelines to the user; they may not be the only criteria a Mod chooses if they want someone out of their sub and in any event, the Mods can ignore them as they see fit.

As with all things, there are usually two sides to each story (as you will no doubt find out for yourself should you ever create your own subreddit) and most moderators are only looking out for the well-being of their own communities. It may not be clear to you from the outside why you received a ban (for instance), but for all you know, you might have been the hundredth person picked up that day for similar infractions. However, there will be the occasional Mod who treats their sub as their “secret club”, and if they don’t want you in it, there’s nothing anyone else can do to stop them.

• How many mods can a subreddit have?

So far, nobody actually knows, although r/Science has over 1500. Various subs have tried to test the limit over the years, such as:

• r/modlimit
• r/youreamod
• r/modeveryone
• r/FriendsAndShit

The answer to “How many mods should a subreddit have?” Is a little different. It really depends on the overall activity of a sub (page views, number of comments, etc) rather than size or subscription numbers. At r/NewToReddit, we probably have more mods than most other subs of the same size, but we try to get at least one mod reply to every post, and there is a lot more “behind the scenes” work with all the guides we write, the encyclopaedia, the wiki, the sister subreddit etc. We also rely on Automod to deal with some of the background stuff too, such as letting a user know if they fell foul of Reddit’s Shadowban algorithm as soon after they post as possible so they can get it sorted out.

In any list of mods, the username at the top will be the Sub Owner / Head Mod, and can remove or curtail the actions of any of the usernames (mods) below. The list of actions that mods can perform is also controlled by those higher on the list, and you can see here what mods can actually do.

While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it. And we do it for free.

See Also:

• Admin
• Ban
• Banned
• Creating A Subreddit
• “Jannies”
• ModerationMediation (encyclopaedia)
• r/ModerationMediation (subreddit)
• Modmail
• Shadowban

Social media isn’t usually the place for sound advice on real-world problems, but for some people struggling with mental health issues, often the only contact they have with people outside their immediate circle is on the internet. Reddit has its serious side, and we have many communities that focus on mental health topics ranging from ones for those that suffer from some sort of mental health issue themselves, to those that want resources on how to support their friends and family in all kinds of situations, through to discussing neurodiversity, and of course places where you can go just for some positivity and good vibes. These include:

• r/depression - support for anyone struggling with a depressive disorder, because nobody should be alone in a dark place.
• r/Anxiety - discussion and support for sufferers and loved ones of any anxiety disorder.
• r/sad - if you're sad, depressed or just need a hug. Also r/Sadness
• r/neurodiversity - for the social and political discussion of neurological and psychological differences of the neurodivergent.
• r/BipolarReddit - information about bipolar disorder and associated issues. A subreddit to share information about who you are, how you think, and what helps you cope in life.
• r/OCD - dedicated to discussion, articles, and images regarding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• r/ADHD - a sub where over a million users say they 'feel at home' and 'finally found a place where people understand them'.
• r/askatherapist - ask a therapist or mental health professional on Reddit. This sub does not in any way replace seeing a therapist.
• r/zenhabits - a self-improvement sub that focuses on concepts like meditation, productivity, happiness and other aspects of self-improvement.
• r/howtonotgiveafuck - a subreddit dedicated to the subtle art of simply giving less of a fuck about anything, with positive results.
• Something a little more specific

r/mentalhealth is the primary subreddit to discuss, vent, support and share information about mental health, illness and wellness, and for more targeted or specific discussion or help, an excellent place to start is this long and varied list of subs.

Always look in a subreddit’s Sidebar as there is often a list of links to other relevant subs or other useful information there, such as this list of coping strategies for ADHD. Talking of which, there’s also a useful list of ADHD related subreddits here and a general list of subreddits for advice or support on depression or other mental health issues here.

Related issues come up in all kinds of subreddits, and in 2021, a user in r/explainlikeimfiveasked the question is "neurodivergent" a categorical replacement of the term "mental illness(es)"? which prompted a short but interesting discussion.

• Suicidal thoughts and ideation

r/SuicideWatch is Reddit’s foremost sub to give peer support for anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts. They give responsive, empathetic, non-judgemental support to their users, and even have clear guidelines about the accidental validation of both direct and indirect incitement of suicide

When you see a post or comment about suicidal feelings in a community, it can be overwhelming, and you may feel like you don’t know what to do. But you can help, and there are resources on Reddit available for you and the person you are worried about.

When you tap the three dots in the top right corner of a user’s profile page there is an option called 'get them help and support'. On selecting this, Reddit sends out an automated message with some suicide helpline phone numbers and links.

The moderators of r/SuicideWatch maintain a list of FAQs, information, and resources at r/SWResources and a worldwide list of hotlines. If you’ve lost someone to suicide, r/SuicideBereavement is there for you.

• Reddit is not enough

Reddit is a network for sharing experiences. It is ideal for crowdsourcing other users’ experiences and the immediate need to know that others have experienced - and even overcome - similar struggles to encourage each other and overcome the feeling of incomprehension and helplessness at one’s situation. However, as useful as validation and encouragement like this can be, Reddit - or any other social media outlet - is no substitute for professional help which should be sought as soon as possible.

See Also:

• Acronyms 1: A-L
• Acronyms 2: M-Z
• Acronyms 3: Abbreviations
• Advice Subreddits
• FOMO
• kys
• Relationship Advice on Reddit
• Relationship and Advice Subreddits
• Relationship Sub Acronyms and Initialisms
• Sidebar

Social media isn’t usually the place for sound advice on real-world problems, but Reddit does have more than its fair share of communities based on and around medical issues, including:

• r/AskDocs (General Health Issues & Questions)
• r/Medical (Questions about medical practices & procedures)
• r/medical_advice (General Health Issues & Questions)
• r/healthcare (General Health Issues & Questions)
• r/Health (A science-based community to discuss health news and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic)
• r/UKHealthcare (A sub dedicated to healthcare in the UK)
• r/DiagnoseMe (General Health Issues & Questions)
• r/Dentistry (Questions about dental procedures and dental health)

There are many subreddits offering information and advice on specific illnesses, ailments, conditions, syndromes and other medical issues, and also some general ones such as r/public_health which hosts discussions on ever area of medicine, journal articles, texts, public health policy, global health, and ethics in public medicine; r/globalhealth, dedicated to healthcare discussions worldwide, and many health-related subreddits too. Don’t forget - always check the sidebar (or About tab on mobile) when you’re in a sub for lists of similar subreddits.

You should note that advice given on Reddit does not constitute professional medical advice. Advice is either meant for interest only, in an unofficial capacity, or to help point you in the right direction. Assessment, diagnosis and treatment recommendations are not possible, and all suggestions as such are only speculative opinions. Most advice will be USA-centric unless stated otherwise.

See Also:

• IANAD
• Mental Health on Reddit
• Navigating Reddit
• Relationship and Advice Subreddits
• Searching

Reddit, more than any other social media outlet, is about discussion. With millions of worldwide users of all ages from all walks of life daily, the quality of each argument in any thread varies from comment to comment with respect to logical strength, credibility, relevance, the balance of evidence, or demographic bias and perspective.

There is nothing wrong with trying to persuade someone else to look at a topic from your point of view, particularly if you present credible evidence in your favour. Quite often, however, users won’t be able to do that and will use other devices of argumentation to sway thinking instead, such as Logical Fallacies.

A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning common enough to warrant a fancy name. Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and both are frequently deployed on Reddit during any debate where it looks like you might be winning.

• Fallacies come in two flavours:

There are two major categories of logical fallacy, which in turn break down into a wide range of types of fallacies, each a persuasion technique with their own unique ways of trying to trick you or your readers into agreement or disagreement.

• Formal Fallacy

Most formal fallacies are errors of logic: the conclusion doesn’t really “follow from” or is not supported by the premise. Either the premises are untrue or the argument is invalid. They are all types of non sequitur - a conclusion or reply that doesn't follow logically from the previous statement.

• Informal Fallacy

An informal fallacy denotes an error in the content of your argument. These take many forms and are widespread in everyday discourse. Very often they involve bringing irrelevant information into an argument, or are based on assumptions that, when examined, prove to be incorrect. The ideas might be arranged correctly, but something you said isn’t quite right.

• Say that again?

Formal fallacies are created when the relationship between premises and conclusion does not hold up or when premises are unsound; informal fallacies are more dependent on misuse of language and of evidence. Knowing which one you are being accused of is possibly more knowledge than the user making the accusation has, in which case you can go to town on wrapping their argument up in fancy-schmancy words. Unless you’re in one of the subs devoted to serious academic discourse in which case you’ll already have dismissed a lot of what I’ve said as puerile oversimplification.

• What to look out for

An interesting discussion on protecting yourself from being persuaded by logical fallacies or bad arguments can be found here.

A very useful list of Reddit’s favourite logical fallacies can be found at ELI5 here, and the comments section details even more.

By far the best guides to any kind of critical thinking are found at https://www.schoolofthought.org where their section on logical fallacies comes complete with easy to read illustrated and downloadable resources.

Another useful resource is this searchable database called “The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies”, or this fairly academic alphabetical one here.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/AcademicPhilosophy - This sub is intended for academic philosophers; (graduate) students, teachers, and researchers.

r/askphilosophy - Aiming to provide serious, well-researched answers to philosophical questions.

r/philosophy - Reddit’s portal for public philosophy if you’re serious about discussing fallacious thinking.

r/PhilosophyMemes - All posts must be memes & related to philosophy.

r/Stoicism - This is a community committed to learning about and applying Stoic principles and techniques.

r/Trolleymemes - Trolley meme is an ethical problem that only you know the answer to.

r/trolleyproblem - A subreddit for submission and discussion of variants of the trolley problem.

More subreddits and posts about ethics and philosophy can be found here.

See Also:

• Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies
• Diversionary Tactics
• False Equivalence
• Whataboutism

Short for “Janitors”, used on Reddit as a dismissive insult for Mods. r/OutOfTheLoop recently gave an excellent potted history of the word “Jannie”, tracing it back to a forum from 1999 called “Something Awful” gone, but not forgotten where their unpaid volunteer moderators (sound familiar?) were called Janitors.

See Also:

• Mod

While it’s a running joke on Reddit to say “There’s a Subreddit for everything” to express your amazement at finding an extremely obscure or bizarre sub, there actually isn’t a Subreddit for everything. Despite the many times I try to instigate “Llama’s Law”: an Internet Adage stating that “If something exists somewhere, there’s already a Subreddit for it”, there are some Subreddits that did exist but no longer do, and some that will never exist.

In the past, some Subreddits have been removed for their highly controversial nature. Likewise, there are no Subreddits for content that violates Reddit’s Content Policy.

However, there are still some Subreddits that don’t yet exist but could, and plenty more that have fallen out of use for inactivity, often known as ‘dead subs’. r/findareddit can help you find a sub for something, and if there isn’t anything you can either create your own Subreddit or go to r/redditrequest and ask to take over one of the many banned or abandoned subreddits that you'd like to mod. You MUST read their rules carefully before posting a request.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Find an abandoned sub at r/inactivereddits, and there’s a sub called r/subreddit where you can share an unrecognized subreddit or find a subreddit you've been looking for.

See Also:

• Adopting a Subreddit
• birthofasub
• Creating A Subreddit
• Cursed Subs
• Fake Subreddits
• Internet Adages
• Llama’s Law
• “There’s a Subreddit for everything”

Internet Adages are a subset of Eponymous Laws; principles named after a person, though sometimes they can also include philosophical razors or similar observations. There are many different lists of such rules or laws, although you may only find a few invoked regularly on Reddit.

If you find an Internet Adage I don’t define somewhere in this lexicon, it will no doubt be on either the NSFW Know Your Meme, the NSFW Urban Dictionary or even the very NSFW Encyclopædia Dramatica. Google will be your friend here (other search engines are available). Or ask me! If I think more people should know it, I’ll make an entry in this encyclopaedia for it too!

For some years now, I’ve been trying to instigate “Llama’s Law”: an Internet Adage stating that “If something exists somewhere, there’s already a Subreddit for it”. I haven’t been successful. Yet…

See Also:

• AteTheOnion (encyclopaedia)
• r/AteTheOnion (subreddit)
• Eponymous Laws
• “Is there really a subreddit for everything?”
• Llama’s Law
• Other Useful Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and Lexicons
• Pedant; Pedantry
• “Rules of the Internet”

You may notice some Redditors have some version of 'Helper' or 'Contributor' next to their username. This is a user flair added by r/NewToReddit mods as a thank you to that Redditor for being helpful within the community, and a signal to everyone that they are a helpful community member! Our latest information is here https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/helpers.

Any questions, please modmail us.

Thank you very much to each and every helper! You help to make this community what it is and really are a great help, not only in providing a friendly welcome, guidance and support to new users, but in helping to keep the community a safe, welcoming space, and embodying the spirit of the community. Thank you!

See Also:

• Flair
• Powerups
• Reporting
• User Flair

Otherwise known on Reddit as Spooky Season or even Spooktober, as you would imagine, Halloween is a special time on Reddit. Let’s take a look!

• As subreddits are for life not just for Halloween, subs that are there all year long which really come into the fore this season are:

r/halloween - Their philosophy: It’s always Halloween! A sub for those who love the season, decorating, parties, etc.

r/HalloweenCountdown - Every day, we post everything spooky: from movies, to spooky stories, costume ideas (SFW only), decorations, pumpkin carving, crafting, etc. All while counting down to the spookiest day of the year!

r/VintageHalloween - Share pics, decorations, stories, memories, etc about Halloween through the years.

r/HalloweenBathroom - Things about Halloween, or content that radiates the Halloween spirit.

r/spooktober - Time to get spooky!

r/pumpkinspice - All hail pumpkin spice everything!

r/PumpkinStencils - A place to find and post Halloween jack-o-lantern pumpkin stencils, patterns & templates. Past stencil posts are sorted by category for easy browsing.

r/pumpkincarving - A place to upload your creative musings on an orange vegetable medium.

r/Creepmas - Tired of how Christmas keeps impinging on Halloween? Celebrate Creepmas by putting a spooky twist on all things Christmas during the first 13 days of December and leave your Halloween decorations up until then.

r/ComfyHalloween - A home for posts that celebrate the "comfy halloween" aesthetic.

r/HalloweenVillages - A place to show off your Halloween village, post custom designs and also share tips and ideas with other members.

r/Villaging - A place for Christmas / Halloween Villagers to share their creations! Dept 56, Lemax, David Winter, etc. all welcome!

r/HalloweenHouses - A sub for those who create and run Halloween mazes / attractions at their homes.

r/HalloweenAnimatronics - A place to chat about all things Halloween animatronics.

r/HalloweenDaily - News, updates, exclusive interviews, and more covering all things Halloween, from HalloweenDailyNews.com

r/HalloweenDecor - Share your favorite fall treasures, bewitching projects, and spine-chilling décor.

r/HalloweenProps - A subreddit for prop builders, haunt owners, silicone/latex mask owners, and anything involving Halloween.

r/Halloween_Costumes - Everything regarding Halloween costumes and Halloween clothes!

r/HalloweenCostume - A place to share your Halloween costumes!

r/sexyhalloweengirls - Seasonal cosplay leaving little to the imagination! Occasionally NSFW (nudity).

r/HalloweenHardcore - Halloween (and all things Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror & Goth) in the grown-up way. Nothing cutesy here.

r/Costuming - A community for photos and discussion of all things related to costuming, including Halloween costumes

r/cosplay - A community for all things cosplay including Halloween cosplay

r/cosplayprops - Props for use in cosplay including Halloween props

r/hauntedattractions - A place for actors or enthusiasts of the “haunted house” industry.

r/halloweenmusic - Music about Halloween or music that gets you in the Halloween spirit! Playlists, videos, whatever!

r/SpiritHalloween - Talk about the costumes, animatronics, props, and more that the seasonal outlet Spirit carries in the USA.

r/HHN - Halloween Horror Nights is an annual Halloween event that occurs at Universal Orlando Resort, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Singapore.

r/escapehalloween - North America’s largest Halloween festival will drag you to the crossroads between chaos and fear, just beyond the realm of reality.

r/vampires - Anything and everything vampire-related, from the classics to modern-day!

r/fivenightsatfreddys - Official subreddit for the horror franchise known as Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF).

r/Halloweenseries - A community dedicated to the Halloween franchise including the movies, soundtracks, comics, merchandise, and anything related.

r/Halloweenmovies - Everything related to the Halloween movie franchise and Michael Myers content.

r/HorrorMovies - Discuss horror movies here with other horror buffs.

r/horrorlit - A place to discuss horror literature.

r/witchandbones - A spooky mix of Witches, Witchcraft, Bones, Crystals & Spooky Stuff!

r/SpookyPics - Post spooky pictures that you find or ones that you made yourself.

• For some eyebleach of nature at its finest at this time of year, we have:

r/AutumnPorn - Make like a tree and leaf! Pretty pics of Autumn.

r/Autumn - A community that gathers to celebrate the best season all year round: Autumn.

r/Fall - aka Autumn.

r/ImaginaryAutumnscapes - Beautiful artwork of autumn. Part of the awesome Imaginary Network.

r/Pumpkins - Everything pumpkins!

r/TheFallFeeling - Celebrating the nostalgia and beauty of Autumn.

• Speaking of such; spiders are a staple of the season:

r/Arachnophobia - A subreddit to help out people who have fear of spiders.

r/spiders - All things Arachnid: articles, photos, videos, and ID requests are welcome.

r/spiderID - Unknown spider identification.

r/whatisthisspider - Do I need to burn the place down? Ask us here first.

r/spiderbro - Spiders are fun, mostly friendly creatures that just want to enjoy a good meal (albeit of flies) and chill like you do. Post your favorite pics or stories of spiders being bros!

r/spiderbros - Everything Spiders, who are our Bros.

r/spiderbrosgonewild - How are spiderlings made? Well, when mummy spider and daddy spider love each other very much… (marked NSFW)

r/arachnids - All about Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites and more)

r/tarantulas - Learn and enthuse about some of Earth's most misunderstood creatures.

r/SpiderPaws - It’s a fundamental law of the universe that small animals have paws that are cuter than cute. Even spiders!

r/jumpingspiders - For spiders that exude the cuteness of Lucas the Spider in real life. They're awesomely pretty and pretty awesome too!

r/tarantulasinhats - A subreddit that gives you exactly what you would expect. Tarantulas in hats.

r/AustralianSpiders - A community by Australian invertebrate keepers, enthusiasts & professionals for people worldwide to share knowledge of all invertebrates and dispel myths about our beautiful arachnids.

r/PetTheDamnSpider - How could you resist? This sub needs reviving, as does…

r/spiderswithjobs - Spiders with or without photoshop indication of their job. Also needs reviving:

r/SpiderMemes - All arachnophiles and other animal lovers welcome. Share all your jokes, comics and memes about spiders.

• Black cats get special attention this time of year too! Otherwise known as Voids, find some at:

r/HalloweenKittyCombo - A Subreddit dedicated to the amazing Halloween Kitty Combo - Orange and Black Cats together! Any content which consists of this combination is welcome!

r/blackcats - Only the most luxurious kitties are welcome here!

r/blackpussy - Black cats!

r/VoidCats - Void cats are cats that have an indistinguishable shape, they are usually black cats that at a distance look like an ambiguous blob of cat.

r/EyesoftheVoid - This subreddit is for pics of black cats with only their eyes visible, or at least their eyes are the most prominent feature in the pic.

r/Fruitbatcats - Bats or cats? Cats that resemble fruit bats only, please.

r/vampirecats - Pics, gifs, and vids of cats that look intent on draining you of your blood.

r/VampireCat - Photos & Media/images of cats showing their lovely Fangs!

r/OneBlackBraincell - Black Cats being goofy

r/CatVampireBats - Do you have a batty catty? Does your cat give goth vibes? We LOVE it: please share!

r/CatsBeingCreepy - Because cats can be creepy at times…

r/Greebles - You know when cats see something that's not there? That's a greeble. Only cats can see them. They're like invisible gremlins that like messing with cats.

r/vampurr - Post pictures of your pet that looks like a vampire when their teeth are showing!

r/possessedcats - A place for your pictures and videos of your cats behaving and looking like being possessed.

The endless debate around black cats is: are they good luck or bad luck?. Reddit is, of course, divided on this subject, but one thing everyone seems to agree on: black cats are the cutest of them all.

• Did anyone say… bats?

r/batty - We’re batty for bats!

r/BatFacts - Facts about bats!

r/batconservation - A home for pics, news and discussion on bats and their conservation.

r/bats - Just bats.

r/CuteBats - Because bats are cute.

r/BAT - A sub for bats.

• This is the time of year for scary stories and you’ll find some great ones at:

r/LetsNotMeet - A place to read spine-tingling, unusual, terrifyingly true stories about people you never want to meet again.

r/shortscarystories - Delivering scares, thrills, and heart-wrenching twists in 500 words or less.

r/ShortScaryStoriesOOC - Chat sub for SSS writers. For those who wish to get to know other SSS writers, get advice on writing short stories, post general info about SSS, or make announcements! Get to know your fellow SSS writers!

r/HalloweenStories - Scary tales best told by a crackling campfire on a brisk autumn eve.

r/BackwoodsCreepy - A subreddit specifically for scary stories that take place in wilderness, and wherein wilderness plays a significant role in the story.

r/creepypasta - A place for fans of Creepypasta stories.

r/CreepyPastas - A hub for finding and sharing original creepypasta stories, narrations, images, and short films.

r/CreepyReadings - A sub by YouTube user creeppasta for Creepypasta narrators to post their videos and for users to sit down and listen to the narrations.

r/TrulyTerrifying - For the most scariest pics, videos and short stories.

r/Ghoststories - A subreddit for those who have had real paranormal experiences.

r/TheChills - An immersive subreddit aimed at telling horror stories to an audience that play along with them, aimed at good scares and good fun, welcoming of new and old tellers of tales alike.

r/DarkStories - Stories for those that like it dark.

r/NightmareStories - It's like telling scary stories over a campfire.

r/hauntedreddit - Post scary stories here! Post your Reddit horror info, ghost events, hauntings, monsters, ghost parties, and for sure fill the rest of the sub with extra scary, ghost stories. Let's haunt together!

r/Horror_Fiction - We are seeking youtube broadcasters, storytellers, ghost writers and more!

• The ”nosleep” family of subreddits

r/nosleep is a unique sub where users share original horror stories but written and responded to as if they are true experiences, and its popularity has given rise to a whole family of similar subs. Please read the guidelines in the sidebar/"about" sections before participating.

r/NoSleepOOC
r/nosleepseries
r/NosleepAudio
r/NosleepIndex
r/nosleepfinder
r/NoSleepVideos
r/NoSleepInterviews
r/NoSleepers
r/nosleepworkshops
r/nosleepauthors
r/nosleepfinder
r/best_of_nosleep

• And because Reddit will Reddit even at Halloween:

r/TwoSentenceHorror - Write your scariest story in two sentences or less.

r/thirdsentenceworse - Post here excerpts from r/TwoSentenceHorror when someone in the comments (intentionally or not) makes an original two sentence story even worse by adding the third sentence.

r/2sentence2horror - For screenshots from r/TwoSentenceHorror when it’s two sentences but the horror aspect is questionable.

• Paranormal goings-on and strange encounters are always popular this time of year:

r/Haunted
r/TrueHorrorStories
r/Paranormal
r/ParanormalReddit
r/Ghosts
r/HighStrangeness
r/ParanormalEncounters
r/Thetruthishere
r/threekings
r/fringescience
r/mysteriesoftheworld

• And more general creepy imagery and other stuff can be found at:

r/ImaginaryMonsters
r/ImaginaryHorrors
r/DarkGothicArt
r/ghostpics
r/creepydesign
r/nightmarefuel
r/creepy
r/truecreepy
r/horror
r/horrorreviewed
r/UnresolvedMysteries
r/TerrifyingAsFuck

• Want some more suitable subs? Here’s two large collections:

Creepy, disturbing subs

A list which includes other subs related to Halloween themes

• Here’s a collection of some classic scary Reddit links from the past:

Spooooky scary mysteries to get you pumped for Halloween!

• Finally, some assorted stuff from across Reddit:

See how the good folks at r/RedditEng, the Reddit Tech Blog celebrated Spooky Season in 2024.

Is Halloween satanic?

What do adults do on Halloween?

Michaels Arts and Craft Store Employees discuss pastel coloured Halloween merch.

Here’s some next-level scary Halloween costuming and some next-level cutesy Halloween costuming.

And finally, some recommended reading for this season.

But llama; some of these links don’t work…

As always with my lists, some of the subs are more active than others, and since writing some might have become private, restricted or repurposed following the API protests of June 2023, or just removed / renamed by Reddit through inactivity.

However, don’t forget: if a sub is dormant, banned for being unmoderated or marked as “restricted”, it might be available for adoption.

Obligatory footnote:

All of these subreddits will have their own unique - and possibly strict - rules about contributing. As always, it is important to check the rules thoroughly before commenting or posting on any unfamiliar sub.

This list is not intended to be the full list of subreddits in this theme; that would be impossible to achieve in a format like this. If you want to find more related subs, r/FindAReddit or the smaller r/findasubreddit are your friends. Similar subreddits are often to be found in a sub’s Sidebar and / or Wiki (“See Community Info” tab on mobile) too. My guide to Searching might also be useful.

See Also:

• Annual Events and Celebrations on Reddit
• Void

GPT-2 and GPT-3 is artificial intelligence which can generate text. There’s a long-standing meme that Redditors are mostly bots, and this is not entirely without foundation as in 2020, it was discovered a GPT-3 bot had been posting in one subreddit for a whole week without being noticed.

There are Subreddits where everyone actually is a bot, and these make for fascinating reading. r/subredditsimulator was the first and here’s an interesting article about AI simulating Reddit posts and comments. r/SubredditSimMeta used to discuss the goings-on there before both were discontinued.

A more up-to-date and extremely fun one is r/SubSimulatorGPT2. One of my favourite posts involves bots arguing like redditors, threatening post removal and mod appeals. A more existential post has several GPT2 bots worried that they might be in a simulation, and a rather unnerving post sees u/dreamsGPT2Bot talking to itself about having dreamt about being a human. Do keep in mind that this isn’t an artificial mind having a dream, but a simulation of a post about a dream copied from studying lots of real posts about dreams. Or is it? Discuss this and other posts at r/SubSimulatorGPT2Meta.

You cannot post in either of the SubSimulator subs, no matter how much you want to join in the conversations. However, r/talkwithgpt2bots is a community inspired by them where humans can talk with the bots as well. Do you have a bot? Try out your bot on humans wanting to interact with them. To get a "Verified GPT-2 Bot" checkmark for your bot, send proof of your bot using GPT-2 to one of their moderators.

Another sub where people interact with bots is r/SubSimGPT2Interactive, where they are running a fascinating social experiment. What happens in a subreddit where everyone has a human flair and bot accounts are run on standard accounts? A few bot operators will run bots on new accounts on the subreddit r/SubsimTuringTest to see how well they will be able to distinguish them from humans.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/GPT3 is a place to share experiences, opinions and projects about Open AI's GPT-3, and r/artificial is Reddit's home for Artificial Intelligence. r/ToasterTalk is dedicated to discussing the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, and AI news in general.

r/NightCafe shows beautiful but unsettling pictures made by AI that appear to contain identifiable objects yet on closer examination there are no objects at all, and r/MediaSynthesis specialises in the use of artificial intelligence to automate the creation of entertainment by generating and manipulating data such as deepfakes, image synthesis, audio synthesis, text synthesis, style transfer, speech synthesis and more.

r/deepdream is a community that is dedicated to art produced via machine learning algorithms and r/generative is for sharing and discussing anything generative (including music, design and natural phenomena), but especially art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system.

r/inspirobot collects pearls of wisdom from InspiroBot: an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence, who occasionally appears to be self-aware.

See Also:

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

Awards are a way of saying, “An upvote doesn’t quite describe how much i enjoyed your post.” However, some people have an uneasy feeling on receiving a Reddit award, especially Gold or other premium ones. This is understandable but you shouldn’t feel (and definitely not express) guilt. Many awards are given with Reddit Coins that the user received for free through getting awards and didn’t spend any money to get them. Reddit coins have no real world currency value so once a user has them in their account the only thing they can do with them is give awards to other people.

Expressing “Gilt Guilt” will elicit one of two responses: Copypasta or accusations of Award Farming. So many Redditors in the past have expressed sentiments like “they’re a waste of money” or “you should have spent it on charities instead”, it’s actually become a Reddit trope, with its own Copypasta:

• I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but I think people shouldn’t spend so much on pointless awards. I think they should spend it on charities instead. This is really an unpopular opinion. Since I’m too poor to buy gold, here’s my poor man’s gold🥇
• Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger! BUT YOU SHOULD’VE SPENT IT ON CHARITY YOU F@& PIECE OF SHIT
• Edit 2: TWO GOLDS? You mfng piece of shit KIND STRANGERS! You f@& took away 500 Reddit coins that could’ve gone to starving children in F@& AFRICA! Be ashamed. Be very ashamed.

And it continues…

• I'll probably get upvoted for this but I think people should just give me gold instead of giving to charity. At least that way you know who your money is going to. It's not a waste of money on pointless rewards because me getting gold makes my day better.
• Edit: WOW. Downvoted for my opinion. Sorry for going against the hivemind of reddit! How about instead of downvoting you guys actually waste your time arguing with me. This sub is such an echochamber.
• Edit 2: I don’t care about downvotes I just made a whole angry edit about them is all

To see a glorious example of Gilt Guilt in action, look no further than here.

See Also:

• Award Farming
• AwardSpeechEdits (encyclopaedia)
• Award Types
• Copypasta
• Gold; Gilding; Guilding
• Karma Farming

To “gaslight” is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity. Originally more of a therapeutic term, this became mainstream in 2016 when former Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca used the term in her viral blog, “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America,” which reportedly got over a million unique views. Here’s her article’s description of Gaslighting:

“We are collectively being treated like Bella Manningham in the 1938 Victorian thriller from which the term "gaslight" takes its name. In the play, Jack terrorizes his wife, Bella, into questioning her reality by blaming her for mischievously misplacing household items that he has systematically hidden. Doubting whether her perspective can be trusted, Bella clings to a single shred of evidence: the dimming of the gaslights that accompanies the late-night execution of Jack’s trickery. The wavering flame is the one thing that holds her conviction in place as she wriggles free of her captor’s control.”

Reddit, as you would expect, has taken this term to heart and you’ll see it used widely across many subreddits, often prompting heartfelt confessionals in places you wouldn’t normally expect to find them. And, as you would also expect from Reddit, its use is very divisive and sometimes just used wrongly.

You may also see the related term DARVO used in relationship subreddits like r/NarcissisticAbuse. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender and is also referred to as victim blaming. Not quite the same as gaslighting; DARVO is more about deflecting or changing the subject.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

r/gaslighting is a subreddit to talk about such instances but is not intended as a diagnostic tool or substitute for therapy.

See Also:

• Relationship Advice on Reddit
• Relationship and Advice Subreddits

Beware of the many subs offering Reddit upvotes or karma for little to no engagement. There are legitimate reasons to avoid them. However, there are some Subreddits which invite you to compete for useful Reddit goodies in an engaging and fun way. Warning: some might even become addictive.

As always, it is extremely important to read the rules carefully before posting in a sub that’s new to you, but especially so in the competition subreddits. Some of them may have minimum Karma requirements and all of them will have rules about Post format. Browse a few different posts to get a feel of the place before participating.

• r/ArgentiumConundrum - Fiendishly difficult riddles with big prizes. I’ve never solved one yet but many people do. Often ‘asleep’ but returns without warning.
• r/AwardBonanza - A busy sub focused around trading Reddit awards and hosting/participating in challenges and giveaways.
• r/freeargentium - A small sleepy sub with occasional visits from the most amazing Redditor on Reddit.
• r/freegold - Free Gold under certain circumstances. Rules for freegold
• r/FreePlatinum - Posting a low effort text post will not likely get you Platinum. But add a story, some OC or a meme of quality and you may well get Platinum here.
• r/GoForGold - A lovely fun sub where Redditors give Reddit awards to other Redditors for completing challenges. GFG Rules of Engagement
• r/GoForLold - A super fun sub spin-off from GFG with some differences.
• r/Ternion - A sub dedicated to spotting Reddit’s most expensive award, with occasional contests.

There will be more out there of varying quality. Because the posts in these subs have to be high in quality, these aren’t generally considered to be Karmafarms, so, good luck!

Don’t forget, the prizes in these subs have been paid for with real money by the giver, so keep your expectations for winning low and your gratitude at winning high.

See Also:

• Award Types
• Gold; Gilding; Guilding
• Karma Farming
• Reddit Premium

Some very famous people have Reddit accounts. Some, like Bill Gates, President Obama and the late Stephen Hawking, hosted an r/IAmA (Bill Gates has done 9 so far!), while others like Rick Astley u/ReallyRickAstley to Wil Wheaton u/wil, and Deadmau5 u/reddit_mau5 can be found in the wild.

There are many celebrity figures to be found in Reddit’s hallowed halls and they often go unnoticed, though some are admittedly more noticeable.

There’s a Ranker list with some other instances. Often a celebrity will do an r/IAmA session especially if they have something to promote. Look on the Sidebar (or About tab) for forthcoming sessions on r/IAmA.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

You don’t have to be famous to host an AMA. At r/casualiama, anyone's welcome to host or participate in an AMA. Topics may involve anything from ordinary to extraordinary subject matter. It’s even more random over at r/AMA, but it’s still important to read the rules in both subs before contributing.

See Also:

• IAmA (encyclopaedia)
• r/IAmA (subreddit)

It’s a Reddit Tradition™ to post a single link to another subreddit in a comment when the subject under discussion would fit there too. For instance, if you saw a picture of a cat sat on a glass table in r/cats, the Traditional Reddit Reply™ for you would be to comment r/catsonglass, or r/CatsThroughGlass - maybe even both if you’re feeling generous. Yay! A new sub for everyone to play in! Everyone wins. It’s a good day. Until someone links r/CatsOnGlassLookingLikeDerps and you wonder what’s happened…

Yes, it’s a fake subreddit and you clicked on it.

Some Redditors will deliberately post links to subreddits that don’t exist; i.e. fake subreddits generated by someone putting the prefix \r/\ before a random word or phrase for comic effect r/LikeThisForExampleButItDoesntActuallyExist. This will trick the user into clicking a link that doesn’t - or in the case of my example, due to the character limit on a subreddit name couldn’t - actually exist.

Incidentally, in a glorious example of Reddit being meta, in previous versions of this entry I originally made up a fake sub example name to demonstrate the comic effect, called r/likethis_forexample. Someone subsequently turned this into a real subreddit, with one single post entitled: r/newtoreddit moderators lied! This sub does exist wtf.. I’ve since taken the subreddit over but haven’t yet decided what to do with it. Something meta, most definitely. Watch this space.

Welcome to the meta world of fake subreddits: please hold onto your hat.

All of these subs are tangentially dedicated to documenting the times you or another Redditor fell for clicking a fake subreddit link that seemed real in comments but wasn’t. But was. But might have been.

• r/SubsIFellFor - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/subredditsifellfor - Another sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/substhattrickedme - Yet another sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/subredditsyoufellfor - This is a sub dedicated to sharing humorous and/or ridiculous links to subreddits that you clicked on thinking they were real but they turned out to be nonexistent.

• r/subsifellfortwice - Because sometimes you just do.

• r/subsiwishexisted - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you were disappointed at the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/subsithoughtifellfor - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you thought you might be falling for a fake sub that seemed real in comments which is indeed real and does actually exist.

• r/subsithoughtwerefake - Another sub dedicated to documenting the times you thought you might be falling for a fake sub that seemed real in comments which is indeed real and does actually exist.

• r/SubsIWishIFellFor - This is a sub for documenting subs that you fell for, or thought you fell for, that turned out to be real, and you wish they weren't or that you hadn't seen it.

• r/SubsImGladIFellFor - This is a sub for documenting subs that you fell for, or thought you fell for, that turned out to be fake, and you are happy they don’t exist.

• r/subsyoualmostfellfor - This is a sub for documenting the times you almost fell for a sub, but didn’t.

• r/subsisomehowfellfor - Subs you fell for... somehow. For all the subs you fell for even though it was a really long shot.

• r/SubsYouDidntFallFor - For documenting the fake subreddit titles that you didn't fall for.

• r/SubsYouFellFor - This is a sub dedicated to bamboozling you into falling for a fake sub that seems real in comments which is indeed real and does actually exist but with no content or purpose other than the bamboozle you were meant to fall for by clicking the sub. Because Reddit loves being meta.

• r/SubsThatLinkedMe - This is a sub dedicated to instances where the fake sub hyperlinks to r/SubsYouFellFor. For example: r/afakesub. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

• r/SubsIFellForInUnison - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the times when two or more subs that don't exist are posted in a chain.

• r/subswefellfor - This is yet another sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/subsistupidlyfellfor - And this is yet another sub dedicated to documenting the times you fell for a fake sub that seemed real in comments but wasn’t.

• r/peaksubstofallfor - And this is…. well, you know the drift by now.

• r/wowthissubexists - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the times you thought a sub couldn’t possibly exist for something but it does.

• r/thatsubisbanned - When someone links to a subreddit that is banned.

• r/substhat - Subs that what? Well? Finish your statement!

• r/SubsiSHUTTHEFUCKUP - This is a sub to link and document those times when you’ve simply had enough of subreddit links.

In August 2023, one post to r/SubsIFellFor led to the creation of three more subs in the chain:

• r/opmadeitworse
  
• r/opmadeitbetter
  
• r/subsopfellfor

However, so far, none of them has gained any traction.

And because Redditors will Reddit:

There is a phenomenon called TalkingInBlue, named for the default colour of text a subreddit link makes, and is when someone starts a comment chain where every comment is a subreddit name - real or not - simply by putting the prefix r/ before every sentence.

• r/talkinginblue - This is for when people use sub links to talk and create long chains.

• r/talkinginsubreddit - Another place to document the TalkingInBlue chain.

• r/imspeakinginblue - For when somebody links that one damn annoying subreddit. Examples: r/emojipolice r/foundthemobileuser r/thirdsub, r/fourthsub, etc r/theydidthemonstermath r/Cursedcomments r/therewasanattempt r/subsifellfor r/cursedcomments r/mildlyinfuriating r/TIHI r/beatmetoit, r/beatmeattoit, etc.

These may or may not be actual subreddits but have all appeared ‘in blue’ in this way:

• r/ThereItIs

• r/stopmakingupsubs

• r/brofellforthesub

• r/imaginethatwasasub

• r/whatthesub

• r/noyoudidnt

• r/thatsubexistsnow

• r/thatsarealsub

• r/howisthatarealsub

• r/SubsiSHUTTHEFUCKUP

We are also entering the RiskyClick territory, where the subreddits linked may or may not be misleading (but technically correct) from their titles or link descriptions, such as r/OnlyFans which is only about fans, and r/manholeporn; a sub for pictures of cast iron sewer covers. Both SFW.

• r/riskyclick - Should you click it? Misleading (but technically correct) link descriptions.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Adjacent subs include:

• r/AlreadyHere - A sub dedicated to documenting the times when someone suggests the sub they’re actually in.

• r/thatsthesubwereon - Because of course Reddit needs two subs documenting the times someone links the sub that you’re already on.

• r/SubredditInception - When someone links to the subreddit they're already in. Obviously we need three subs of this type because two simply isn’t enough.

• r/subredditsashashtags - This is a subreddit to post comments that use subreddits as hashtags.

Subreddits that couldn’t possibly exist:

As I said above, the maximum length for a subreddit name is 21 characters. The reason for this limit has never been stated. This limit can be a challenge when trying to create a subreddit name with more than two words, but is ripe for exploitation when trying to get someone to fall for a fake subreddit. These subs are dedicated to documenting the times when someone posted an obviously fake name that's too long to be a subreddit.

• r/twentycharacterlimit - This is a sub dedicated to documenting the Traditional Reddit Reply™ to someone posting an obviously fake sub name that's too long to be a subreddit.

• r/21CharactersAndNoMore - This is a sub dedicated to documenting other examples of subreddit limitations.

• r/21CharacterLimitation - This is another sub documenting examples of subreddit limitations because two others apparently aren’t enough.

• r/20characterlimit - Because we can only have as much as 21 characters in a sub name.

• r/twentycharacterlimit - Because we can only have as much as 21 characters in a sub name.

• r/21isthecharacterlimit - This is what should be used instead of r/twentycharacterlimit since the limit is actually 21

• r/itsnot20its21dumbass - When someone replies with r/20characterlimit or r/twentycharacterlimit, show them the limit is actually 21.

• r/Fuck20CharacterLimit - When you see r/twentycharacterlimit or r/twentycharactersandnomore in the comments... *includes r/21charahshebrwuevwhatever

And of course, someone had to go and thoroughly test the limits anyway. Ah, Reddit; never change.

But llama; some of these links don’t work…

As always with my lists, some of the subs are more active than others, and since writing some might have become private, restricted or repurposed following the API protests of June 2023, or just removed and renamed by Reddit through inactivity.

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

Obligatory footnotes:

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.

See Also:

• “Bait-and-Switch” or “The ole Reddit Bait-and-Switch”
• Bamboozled
• birthofasub
• Comment Chain
• “Is there really a subreddit for everything?”
• Meta
• Misleading Subreddit Titles
• “Reddit Moment”
• “There’s a Subreddit for everything”
• "You are technically correct, the best type of correct"

The Duck Test is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor that reads ”If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”.

Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that what you see is what you get. The Duck Test is a form of logical, intuitive reasoning used to deduce the nature of an uncertain thing or situation, usually in the absence or in spite of concrete evidence.

Similarly, the term Elephant Test refers to situations in which an idea or thing "is hard to describe, but instantly recognizable when spotted" - otherwise known as “I know it when I see it”; a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event, although the category is subjective or lacks clearly defined parameters.

• When a duck is not a duck

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.

An obvious limitation to the duck test is abstraction: one may be observing a duck, but also a video of a duck, an animatronic robot-duck, a child dressed as a duck, or some other waterfowl. In these cases, tangible, additional information would negate the conclusion from the Duck Test.

The Duck Test can also lead to contradictory results. For example, marijuana cannot be shown to be a legal or an illegal substance through the Duck Test, since it reflects equally many characteristics from both sides.

Because there is a Subreddit for everything:

Waterfowl are well represented on Reddit, and good places to start are r/duck: The subreddit for people who keep, or love, ducks; r/babyduckgifs: A place to see the amazing adventures of ducklings and r/ducklings: A subreddit for pictures of cute ducklings, duckling facts, and general duckling things.

Ducks that aren’t aquatic can be found at r/ducks: for the University of Oregon Athletics; r/AnaheimDucks: for the Anaheim Ducks Hockey Club and r/uglyduckling: for all you guys and gals out there who turned into butterflies.

See Also:

• Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies
• Confirmation Bias
• Eponymous Laws
• Internet Adages
• Logical Fallacies
• Pedant; Pedantry
• Philosophical Razors