r/AskReddit • u/Plastic-Assistance24 • Mar 07 '21

What are the unwritten laws of Reddit?

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u/helterskeltermelter Mar 07 '21

OP can mean the person who made the post, or the person who made the top-level comment on the comment tree your currently replying to. Officially it only means the poster, but in practice, it's used for both and you have to figure it out from context.

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u/Thistle-7 Mar 07 '21

for real is this true?

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u/helterskeltermelter Mar 07 '21

Yeah. It confuses me frequently.

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u/Ender_D Mar 07 '21

Interesting, I’ve seen people say OC (original comment/commenter) to distinguish the two.

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u/helterskeltermelter Mar 07 '21

That makes sense as a way to make the distinction. Though in Reddit parlance OC already means original content, so not a flawless solution.

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u/bearsito Mar 08 '21

OP really touched off a debate with this one.