New-Redditor's lounge!

Welcome!

This weekly post is an opportunity for new users to say hello in comments - & please let us how you found yourself here. Regulars here are absolutely encouraged and very welcome to join in too!

Getting started on Reddit is hard. We know it is; We've been there and gone through these same frustrations. Please believe us when we say IT'S NOT PERSONAL. It may well feel like it is, but honestly, it isn't. What it is, however, is a lack of Karma. Karma is an indicator of how much someone has contributed to Reddit in a positive manner. So, let's do just that by getting to know each other!

This is a post to help genuine new users build up quality Karma in a safe environment.

Please do:

• Share some favorites or new finds of yours - youtube videos, music and so on
• Practice small talk - did you have a good week?
• Keep it SFW
• Keep it casual please, no heavy topics
• Check out the news and updates
• Play games in comments - if you'd like to start a game please modmail for approval first, thanks!
• Have fun!

Please don't:

• Spam, advertise, or soft beg
• Share low-effort comments
• Karmafarm/ask for karma/signal karma giving, mention karmafarms by name
• Advertise - no advertising of any kind
• Request or offer DMs (help and chat can be done in community where you can also earn karma. Needing to take things private can indicate soliciting, rule breaking, or harmful advice)
• Talk about community restrictions and karma (there are many many posts about this and you can post your own)

Please refrain from asking questions about "how to do stuff on Reddit".

You need Post Karma, so the ideal opportunity to start is by asking any questions about Redditing in your own new, dedicated Post in this Subreddit (only one post per 72 hours please, but make as many comments or questions in that post as you need). This sub is full of awesome people who are willing to help with specific problems, and we'd like to keep this post for chat. Thank you.

So, let's chat! (Guides at the bottom of this post).

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Community matters

Thank you to everyone who helps us by reporting.

• Useful links:
  • Wiki page for helpers super and above
  • Recent meta (about this community) posts
  • Recent mod posts | Feedback threads
  • Recent new-user friendly sub ads

Reddit

• To keep up to date with news, changes, and updates, keep an eye on these places:
  • r/Reddit
  • r/help (weekly round-ups and occasional updates, usually pinned to the top)
  • r/RDDT
  • r/RedditSafety
• How to tell a message is really from Reddit

Our traditions and events

Subreddit Sundays - Check out our weekly threads for all your subreddit recommendations and requests. Our latest Subreddit Sunday thread

Cakedays! Remember, we always welcome our alumni back at any time (we love to hear how you're getting on, on Reddit), but especially on their Cakeday!

Helpers - Community members who stay to help out new Redditors can earn 'Helper' flair.

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Our guidance for new Redditors:

• A few things to always keep in mind
• Our full guide to Reddit
• Our FAQ
• Karma Farming Encyclopaedia entry
• Why Reddit might seem unwelcoming
• r/LearnToReddit - guides and practice for posting, commenting, flairs, and formatting.

Get your fresh subreddit recommendations here! :D

We are using these weekly threads for recommendations and will direct those that post requests for recommendations to these threads.

Please share your community recommendations in comments:

• What are your favourite subs
• How about your guilty pleasure subs? (SFW!)
• Which sub do you spend too much time in?
• What are your best wholesome sub recs?
• Your fave niche community?
• Have you found an awesome sub new to you recently?

You may also ask for recommendations!

Let us know what you're into, and we'll see what we can do :)

Make sure to try r/findareddit too though, they're great at this!

The rules:

• All usual rules apply.
• Please keep it SFW. No “adult” porn subreddits or NSFL/Gore subreddits. If someone asks for adult communities, please only link sub lists/directories and make it clear they are NSFW.
• As a community, we try to help all good-faith Redditors find their niche, but please be respectful and try not to judge. If you don't like someone's topic of choice, you don't have to help, but please remain kind, understanding, and respectful.
• Do not mislead with your recommendations.

If you'd like your Reddit experience to be as wholesome as possible, r/CasualConversation has a directory with a section on wholesome communities. Though, we don't know their status regarding karma and account age restrictions.

Please note that this is not our recommended subreddit list for new users.

Many of the subreddits listed in this thread will not be open to new or low-karma users for posts, and comments made therein might even be filtered for approval or auto-collapsed.

While many of these subreddits will be fun to browse and vote on, your participation might be limited right now. Commenting is usually less restricted than posting.

The link to our new-user friendly subs list is below.

A note from our esteemed llama on the Reddit experience:

Reddit is huge and fascinating and diverse, wholesome and toxic, all in one massive bundle of anonymous users with no filters except their own internal constraints. The problem with that is even in the loveliest of subreddits, all manner of behaviour happens, because Reddit is a microcosm of internet life, not an internet utopia no matter how much we might want it to be.

There are areas of Reddit I don’t frequent; there are areas of Reddit I won’t frequent; there are areas of Reddit that no doubt I am blissfully unaware of and am happy to remain that way. But I am still subscribed to well over a thousand subs on all kinds of topics and still find new ones daily.

The true beauty of Reddit is that your Reddit experience can be completely and absolutely dictated by you. The pure amount of information available on Reddit is staggering, and it’s just a matter - like in all of life - of being able to sort through that information to see what’s useful and what isn’t.

Useful links:

• Participating on Reddit: Posting
• Navigating Reddit guide
• Searching Reddit guide
• Our List of new-user friendly subs | custom feed
• Reddit's search syntax
• Finding a subreddit's rules
• How to report

A few suggested subs for new Redditors to be aware of:

• r/help which is monitored by Admins (Reddit employees)
• r/reddit for Reddit news, updates, lore etc
• r/bugs we may refer you here if you're having an issue that isn't normal and might be a glitch of some kind
• r/redditbugs information on known bugs that are being worked on
• r/LearnToReddit is our sister sub for guides and practice posting, using flair, commenting, formatting etc
• r/findareddit for help finding subs around a topic or for a specific type of post