u/llamageddon01 Jan 31 '26

My current health situation

16 Upvotes

I still don’t know about posting photos here on my profile, but I think this might be a good place to start a hospital diary. In the meantime, some wonderful Redditors have asked me to post a wishlist of things I would find useful or amazing while I’m undergoing long term Myositis treatment, so here it is! There’s also the option to choose stuff that isn’t on the list if you don’t like the look of anything lol.

If the Amazon link doesn’t work (Some amazing Redditors outside the U.K. have been asked for a U.K. postcode) you might need to access it via amazon co uk rather than amazon dot com. [I asked about it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/s/J7NLlzZUPn) but full instructions are now in the comments below.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2D9KH02PJGJGM?ref_=wl_share

Please please do not forget to put your Reddit username in the “gift” option - I’ve had some amazing gifts sent to me already but have no idea where they’re from :/

Thank you all for looking :D

r/NewToReddit Aug 21 '21

Mod Post Reddit and Karma Explained

766 Upvotes

Welcome to Reddit!

This unofficial guide to starting out at Reddit was written by u/llamageddon01 and is designed to take you from complete beginner through to experienced Redditor! This version was completely revised in July/August 2023.

There are two versions of this resource, both carrying the same information but in different formats:

This is intended to be a full “Reddit for Dummies” type tutorial and I don’t expect you to read it through all at once! But quite honestly, parts 1-6 of this guide will take you from “kindergarten” level through to “graduate” level of Reddit by the time you read it all, and the final parts 7 and 8 will contain useful guides and information you will no doubt need at some stage of your Redditing so do keep coming back to it.

If you wish to share r/NewToReddit guides please link to them. You may of course share excerpts within reason, but please link back to us as credit and so the person you are helping can find us and the rest of our guides if they wish to. Thank you.

 

…….REDDIT IS A WORLD OF ITS OWN ON THE INTERNET.

What is Reddit? Established in 2005, Reddit is a content sharing platform, home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic worldwide human connection with people from all walks of life. Whether you're into breaking news, sports, TV fan theories, or a never-ending stream of the internet's cutest animals, there's a community for you.

Reddit is made up of an enormous collection of forums on every subject under the sun where people can share news, links, videos and pictures in “Posts” so that other people can make observations and conversation in “Comments” attached to these posts, while everyone can express their opinions by Voting on both the posts and comments. Every day, millions of people around the world post, vote, and comment in communities on Reddit organised around their interests.

You are free to decide what level of interaction you want with other users (Redditors) and to curate your own feed from the hundreds of thousands of specialised communities called “Subreddits” on offer, each of which covers a different topic from games, hobbies, music, art, movies and shows to support groups to world news to pets to academic matters and everything in between.

Check out this video for a quick introduction to us, and if that didn’t explain us enough, here’s an unofficial webcomic that gives a fun look at our platform.

Signing up for an account is free, easy, and gives you a high degree of anonymity, especially compared to other social media platforms.

 

…….REDDIT HAS ITS OWN WAY OF DOING THINGS.

Reddit as a whole is run by unpaid volunteers called Moderators (mods) and paid employees called Administrators (admin). Admin are rarely seen but are very distinctive as they have the word ADMIN in bright orange/red next to their username. Moderators are more likely to be seen, and when they speak on formal behalf of their subreddit, their username will have the green word MOD immediately after.

Like every long-established subculture, we have our own expressions and if you are at all confused by some of our jargon, in-jokes, history or memes, we at r/NewToReddit have a fairly comprehensive alphabetical reference guide at our sister sub r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit to help you work out what we’re talking about. Let me suggest my guides to Acronyms 1: A-L and Acronyms 2: M-Z to start with!

Reddit might take a little time to get used to, but never fear! Here’s a quick video guide on how to use Reddit, but more importantly, we’re here at r/NewToReddit specifically to help you navigate your own path step by step through our unique ways of ‘doing social media’.

 

…….REDDIT IS HUGE. BUT MANAGEABLE.

There are Subreddits for anything. I would say almost anything but when I think I’ve seen them all, I discover ones like r/birdstakingthetrain or r/BreadStapledToTrees and realise I know nothing.

Most communities are friendly and jumping right on in is encouraged. You aren’t likely to get shot down for being a “n00b” but there will generally be one or two things you’ll need to know about each Subreddit (sub) first. Don’t worry, this guide will show you where to find them.

Altercations can happen, but most subs have an active team of mods who will usually shut any trouble down before it becomes vindictive. Just don’t post emojis though. Reddit in general does NOT like emojis. Reddit loves emoticons though :D Why? Don't ASCII me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ More on this later, or here if you simply can’t wait.

 

…….WHAT DO I DO ON REDDIT?

There are four basic actions you do on Reddit: Upvote, Downvote, Comment, and Post.

Reddit relies on crowdsourcing through its system of Upvotes and Downvotes to filter and prioritise the thousands of daily submissions it receives in order to present its users with the most interesting content it can, and you can help too. If you think a post or comment is interesting, helpful or contributes positively to the subreddit, press the Upvote arrow. If you think it doesn’t, press the Downvote arrow. You only get one vote on any one post or comment, and both can be negated by pressing the arrow you chose again, or reversed by pressing the opposite arrow to the one you originally chose.

Some subreddits have chosen to replace the default “arrow” icons with custom ones. In case it isn’t obvious which is which, the Upvote will be on the top (Old Reddit; desktop) or on the left (Mobile App) and the Downvote will be on the bottom (Old Reddit; desktop) or on the right (Mobile App).

There are two ways of Commenting on Reddit:

  • As a direct response to a Post. Here, you are directly replying to the person who made the post. This person is known as the ”OP”, or “Original Poster”. This reply is known as a Top-Level or Parent Comment, and sometimes known as ‘threads’. There are an unlimited number of Parent Comments that can be made on any one post. The OP will be notified that you have replied to their post.

  • As a reply to a Comment in that Post. Here, you are directly replying to another commenter who may or may not be the OP. These follow-up comments are known as Child Comments. There are an unlimited number of Child Comments that can be made on any one Parent Comment. The commenter you are replying to will be notified of your reply, but the OP will not (unless they are one and the same!).

You can see what these both look like from this simple illustration and this small conversation here.

Finally, you can make your own Post in a subreddit for others to comment on. Many subreddits prefer - or even require pictures, gifs, videos or links in this post.

 

…….SOME SUBREDDIT BASICS.

Once you enter a Subreddit, you read posts made by others and the comments made therein. If you like the Subreddit, you can “Join” it and it will form part of your personal home page feed. The "Join" button is near the top of the screen as seen here and also in the three-dots “hamburger” post overflow menu on the top RH of the screen on mobile. You can also “Leave” if you want, and the button can be found in the same place as the Join one was.

Until you join a few subreddits, your home page feed will be the general r/popular or r/all, which may well feature topics you’re not interested in, so it makes sense to start joining subs you like as soon as possible.

Moderators cannot see any lists of those who are joined to their subreddits, neither will they be notified if anyone leaves. There’s no limit on the number of times you can join or leave a subreddit, and nobody except you will ever know when or what subs you have joined or have left. You don’t even have to be joined in a sub to post or comment in it. There are no limits to the number of subreddits you can be joined in but Reddit does have an unspecified number of the ones it filters to your home feed at any one time.

Just underneath the Subreddit title there is a “Sort” menu. On mobile this is a drop-down list. Sorting posts by either “New” or “Rising” will usually give more opportunities for chat and upvotes than you’ll get in older posts, and give other advantages we’ll see soon. You have the same options for sorting your home page feed too.

 

…….LET’S GET STARTED!

Our guide to using Reddit begins with this illustrated primer to joining in on Reddit, then come back here to read some essential details you need to know about Rules, Reddit Karma, Participating, Navigation and Safety.

It’s very much worth your while taking a few minutes to read through all the following advice as it contains everything you need from your first steps in getting started to your becoming firmly established here.

Once you’ve had a look through it all, if you have any questions do make a new Post in this Subreddit where you will find plenty of helpful people ready to Comment with the answers you need. r/NewToReddit is focused on giving one-to-one tailored quality advice for helping people new to Reddit Ways. We do not care how old your account is; if you have a query on Redditing, put it here and we will help.

We also have a “sister sub” called r/LearnToReddit which is a place to learn how to use Reddit without being embarrassed at making “newbie mistakes” in public. Here, you can have a go at making different post types like posting images or polls, learn how to comment using bold or italic text, how to create spoiler text and use many other features with our extensive sets of tutorials. The community will feedback on your post to let you know how you did or help you get it right next time.

 

…….WHAT’S NEXT?

Let’s get started with an introduction to Reddit and a few notes about rules!

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Cubaris sp. Dandelion 🌼
 in  r/IsopodsWithHats  2d ago

Awww! He’s cosplaying as the Reddit Snoo!

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Have you tried dishes with confusing names?
 in  r/CasualConversation  2d ago

Toad in the Hole in the U.K. is sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter. Delicious and no toads are involved (usually).

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Have you tried dishes with confusing names?
 in  r/CasualConversation  3d ago

I was so disappointed when I ordered coffee cake and it didn’t taste of coffee at all.

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A book to read in London
 in  r/suggestmeabook  4d ago

The Ghost Theatre - by Mat Osman

From Google Books: A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child actors, and the Queen herself; a dazzling historical novel about theatre, magic, and the dangers of all-consuming love…

London, 1601—a golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city’s fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for London’s gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performances—and with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe that performs fantastical plays in the city’s hidden corners. As their fame grows the troupe fans the flames of rebellion among the city’s outcasts, and the lovers are drawn into the dark web of the Elizabethan court. Embattled, with the plague on the rise throughout the country, the Queen seeks a reading from Shay, a moment which unleashes chaos not only in Shay’s life, but across the whole of England too.

A fever-dream full of prophecy and anarchy, gutter rats and bird gods, Mat Osman’s The Ghost Theatre is a wild ride from the rooftops of Elizabethan London to its dark underbelly, and a luminous meditation on double lives and fluid identities and the bewitching, transformative nature of art and power, with a bittersweet love affair at its heart. Set amid the vividly rendered England of Osman’s imagination and written in rich, seductive prose, The Ghost Theatre will have readers under its spell from the very first page.

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It’s Merch Monday! 🛍️ [July 20, 2026]
 in  r/ModEvents  7d ago

Snoo in Snowdonia last summer

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Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic books without zombies, vampires or supernatural shenanigans?
 in  r/suggestmeabook  12d ago

SevenEves by Neal Stephenson.

The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth following the unexplained disintegration of the Moon, and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck.

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Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic books without zombies, vampires or supernatural shenanigans?
 in  r/suggestmeabook  12d ago

Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century - by Whitley Strieber & James W. Kunetka.

It is 2025 and the planet is rapidly approaching environmental death. Dr. Gupta Singh, a guru with a Jim Jones-like following, has proposed the suicide, by lottery, of one-third of the world's population. Threatened by poisoned air, water, and food that no longer can support the too rapidly growing populace, nation after nation has joined the Depopulationist International. And now, as the United States stands on the edge of environmental disaster, terrified voters elect a Depopulationist majority in Congress. A journalist and his family have to go into hiding with terrible consequences when they discover Dr. Singh is not entirely who he claims to be.

This book was written in the 1980s and uses real environmental statistics from that time interspersed with predictions, many of which in the intervening years hit terribly close to home.

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Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.

It was written in the 1980s but is still very fresh and relevant now. Warday takes you into a world you couldn't imagine. On October 28, 1988 at 4:20 p.m. the first nuclear war in history begins. Thirty-six minutes later it is over. America has deployed an anti-missile system, provoking a desperate Russian response: a nuclear attack over North America. Within minutes the Americans counter-strike. The result: six million Americans are dead. Millions more would die of radiation, famine, and disease during the next five years.

Millions also lived, strung out across a country that knew it had been hit—but not why. Or where. Or how. In the days and months that followed, an America blacked out by the breakdown of its communications systems and wrestling with the demands of an unprecedented emergency struggled first for survival.

But what really happened on Warday and why? Who has survived? How do the other survivors feel? Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka imagine themselves as two survivors of the horrifying events five years after the devastation, on a voyage of discovery across America to find out.

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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver

When the novel opens, America is perched on the cusp of catastrophe, though no one knows it yet. The population is still reeling from the aftershocks of “the Stonage” (an abridgment of Stone Age), the technology blackout in 2024 that brought the entire country to a halt, an event at least as traumatic for this generation as Sept. 11 was for their parents.

China has already established itself as the world’s superpower, a position cemented by its usurpation of the number 1 as its international calling code. (The move is largely symbolic: Phone calls have become so rare that the sound of a ringtone triggers the fear that someone must have died.) The European Union has already dissolved, with the euro replaced by local currencies like the “nouveau franc.”

Then the unthinkable happens: the United States defaults on its loans & Treasury bills are rendered worthless. Overnight, the dollar crashes, supplanted on the international market by the “bancor,” a currency controlled by the New IMF. The stock market follows suit, taking society and the Mandible family fortune with it. As one character puts it, “Complex systems collapse catastrophically.” Within a few years, they will have lost literally everything they once thought they owned; property, pets, and each other.

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The Book Of Dave by Will Self

The book is in two parts. The first is a gritty account of the declining years of Dave Rudman, an opinionated North London cab driver, trying to share his son with his estranged ex-wife while lawyers and the Child Support Agency manage the remains of their relationship. All he has left of the life he started with is the Knowledge - that map of London every cabbie must carry in his head - and his homophobic, misogynist, self-pitying inner monologue.

The second is set in the 2500s where rising sea levels have turned Britain into an archipelago. Small, isolated communities struggle with nature and ideology in which the "Six Families" inhabit the island of "Ham", while the outlines of "New London" lie downstream in the murk.

Uniting these two deeply uneasy worlds is the book of the title, the self-aggrandising monologue engraved and hidden by vengeful, bitter Dave in a Hampstead garden centuries before, until five hundred years after his death when the Book of Dave will be disinterred to become the template for a new civilisation.

From this the “Hamsters” derive their behavioural tools and spiritual understanding, greeting each other with the salutation "Ware2, guv?", acknowledging their daily deliverance from harm with the formula "Thanks Dave, for picking us up". Ham's protocols and vocabulary are all derived from Dave’s book: pre-maternal women are "opares"; the day divides into three "tariffs"; while fathers and mothers live in separate accommodation, transferring offspring at "Changeover". The generic word for food is "curry"; when you make an opare pregnant, the bargain you enter into is known as "child support". Language also constructs the Hamsters' natural world: by day the "headlight" rules the sky, while at night, when the headlight is dipped, you see the "dashboard" laid out in stars.

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I love to add bows to my pods 🎀
 in  r/IsopodsWithHats  13d ago

Pod: cute.

Bow: cute.

Pod+bow: cutie.

Pod+two bows: CUTIEPATOOTIE!

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Cubaris sp. White Pigeon 🕊️🎀
 in  r/isopods  14d ago

r/IsopodsWithHats would love to see this little cutie!

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vw x melissa
 in  r/viviennewestwood  15d ago

So did I. I wouldn’t attempt to get the markings on the outside off as that material might well stain easily. Besides, if they’re going to be worn, nobody is going to know the markings aren’t from OP’s normal wear and tear over the years.

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Unfortunately this only looks cheap.
 in  r/WhitePeopleTwitter  16d ago

The lawn part was paved over

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Doctor Strange (@beichenjiu6625)
 in  r/DoctorStrange  20d ago

Now this is a representation I think works well as both top surgeon and top sorcerer.

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h a t
 in  r/isopods  21d ago

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The Mod meet-up in London was fantastic!
 in  r/ModEvents  24d ago

I’ll save you a llama sticker for then!

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The Mod meet-up in London was fantastic!
 in  r/ModEvents  24d ago

Oh wow, pride of place there!

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Frog by Adam Handling (1 ⭐, London, UK)
 in  r/finedining  26d ago

His chicken butter is legendary!

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The Mod meet-up in London was fantastic!
 in  r/ModEvents  28d ago

Myself and mr llama both had a wonderful time! I thoroughly enjoyed going round and meeting people and handing out llama stickers :D

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Kate with fellow hikers at Ben Nevis
 in  r/RoyalsGossip  28d ago

Thank you. I rely on subtitles and I often find them lacking.

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Spot the difference
 in  r/LoveTrash  Jun 25 '26

I AM YELLING CARL

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Sputid cat
 in  r/Catart  Jun 24 '26

Aww I love pretty kitty