All memos tagged #reddit-lexicon

The Front Page is a colloquial reference to the designation Reddit has as "the front page of the internet" [1][2] Content that "hits the front page" has garnered enough Upvotes in the Subreddit to whi...

A subreddit is a sub-community on Reddit which is dedicated to the discussion of a particular subject—ranging from broad topics like /r/technology and /r/gifs to specific topics like /r/teslamotors an...

An Ask Me Anything, often referred to by its abbreviation of AMA, is a Subreddit, r/AMA, with a Submission Framework the extends through Reddit's culture—and now the internet. As a submission, an AMA ...

To lurk is to read or browse on Reddit without actively commenting or posting content. The term “lurking” has become widely recognized within online communities to describe users who observe discussio...

The Reddit Glossary is a collection of specialized terms used particularly within Reddit in order to save time and address specific situations. These phrases make communication more efficient for regu...

Original Poster, or OP, is the person who started a discussion thread. Within the forum thread, others may direct comments specifically to the original poster using the OP abbreviation. The original p...

A Redditor is a registered user of the website Reddit who actively participates in the community and contributes to the subreddits through either commenting, upvoting, downvoting, moderating, etc. Fa...

When a link hits the Front Page of Reddit, or just gets a whole lot of views, the Hug of Death is when the destination site doesn't have robust enough servers to take that much traffic at once and it ...

r/all is #coming_soon

The Administrators (also called Admins) are employees of Reddit who help keep the site up and running. Administrators have a red [A] on their user profile and are also able to distinguish their commen...

Defaults were the Subreddits to which new Reddit users are subscribed. Up to May 2017, these subreddits were chosen by Administrators based on content and activity, but changes to Reddit's architectur...

A lurker is a Redditor who reads and sometimes votes but does not post or comment. Some lurkers do so with accounts, some without.

tl;dr, short for "too long; didn't read", is Reddit slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. In slang it can also stand for "Too lazy; didn't read". It is a...

A shadowban (also called stealth banning and ghost banning) bans a user from a Subreddit in such a way that the user is unaware they have been banned—submissions are only visible to the user who submi...

Self-Promotion is #coming_soon The same thing done with different intentions can be labeled differently. tl;dr: Don't spam out your links, and don't blindly upvote your own content or ask anyone else...

Moderators on Reddit are volunteer arbitrators of the Subreddits within.

A text post on Reddit

PRESENT: https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/reddit-basics/reddiquette FORMER: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette

A submission is a post to any

Upvote is a method on the website Reddit by which users can signal their approval or support for a post. Upvotes move a post towards the top of the site, and they are a way to measure how many people ...