Understanding reddit?
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Maybe a daft question but I struggle to navigate through the reddit forum. When google searching I often get linked to some great conversations on reddit, but when I want to use reddit delve deeper into that topic I can never figure how the forum is structured.
With forums such as PH there are designated sections for different topics, but reddit just seems to be a random collection of topics and requires the search bar to find anything specific. Even the Home page just lists random posts.
Is this how it works or have I got it wrong?
With forums such as PH there are designated sections for different topics, but reddit just seems to be a random collection of topics and requires the search bar to find anything specific. Even the Home page just lists random posts.
Is this how it works or have I got it wrong?
Yeah its a baffling place and it's full of wierdos. I think stuff is separated into subredits which focuses on a specific subject and then threads are posted in there.
You can up vote and down vote people's post, which gives you "karma".
That's about as much as I know. I don't spend too much time in there. As I say breeding ground for nutters
You can up vote and down vote people's post, which gives you "karma".
That's about as much as I know. I don't spend too much time in there. As I say breeding ground for nutters
It’s sad that the internet has become so useless that search engines don’t work properly anymore any you have to suffix every search with ‘Reddit’.
Yeah, I end up there a lot but still haven’t worked out how to post. Whenever I try, it says I don’t have enough karma, but how to earn it.
With finding groups, if you add ‘Reddit’ to your google search term as above, it should take you to some suitable groups/whatever they’re called.
Yeah, I end up there a lot but still haven’t worked out how to post. Whenever I try, it says I don’t have enough karma, but how to earn it.
With finding groups, if you add ‘Reddit’ to your google search term as above, it should take you to some suitable groups/whatever they’re called.
I've done some detective work..
I used their search bar to find topics on TV's HDMI 2.1 ports & cables and the below is one of the threads that appeared..
Looking at the username at the top it appears this post was made in a section of reddit called ‘r/hometheatre’
Hovering over that reveals what appears to be a section within Reddit for home theatre topics
And clicking on it brings up a list of threads within that section…
But why the name of the section (r/hometheatre) has an ‘r/‘ in front of it I have no idea!
I also have no idea if there's a way of finding a list of all the different sections, or indeed if there is such a list. I wonder if a user creates their own section and then others can post their own questions within it?
I used their search bar to find topics on TV's HDMI 2.1 ports & cables and the below is one of the threads that appeared..
Looking at the username at the top it appears this post was made in a section of reddit called ‘r/hometheatre’
Hovering over that reveals what appears to be a section within Reddit for home theatre topics
And clicking on it brings up a list of threads within that section…
But why the name of the section (r/hometheatre) has an ‘r/‘ in front of it I have no idea!
I also have no idea if there's a way of finding a list of all the different sections, or indeed if there is such a list. I wonder if a user creates their own section and then others can post their own questions within it?
Edited by The Gauge on Saturday 5th October 10:09
It’s not that hard really.
There are multiple subreddits, each covering a different topic. Think of these like the sub forums here.
Inside these are discussion threads, same as here.
But one big difference is that while each thread here is just a single conversation with all replies coming consecutively, there it all branches. That means one person can post something, 3 people reply and then 3 separate discussions happen as people reply to those posters.
Posts and comments can be up or downvoted and the most popular stuff rises to the top (generally).
There are multiple subreddits, each covering a different topic. Think of these like the sub forums here.
Inside these are discussion threads, same as here.
But one big difference is that while each thread here is just a single conversation with all replies coming consecutively, there it all branches. That means one person can post something, 3 people reply and then 3 separate discussions happen as people reply to those posters.
Posts and comments can be up or downvoted and the most popular stuff rises to the top (generally).
I frequent it. Useful but weird place. Lots of intelligent people posting intelligent things, but also, lots of hysterical a
holes. Redditors have acquired a reputation for being anti-social hermits who never leave the house and regard someone who drinks a couple of beers as alcoholics. Or if the weather is crap, then we're all doomed. Hysteria is rampant.
As for the structure, it's divided up into 'subreddits'. These are essentially their version of subforums on here, i.e. The Lounge (closest thing I can think of in reddit is CasualUK). These subreddits are named with a prefix of r, so it's r/CasualUK. Users are prefixed with u, so for me it would be u/TameRacingDriver.
Also, the moderators are very, what's the word... strict, I guess that's the politest word you can say. They will ban you for making a joke (in fact, I'm currently banned) if they deem it to be too close to the bone. If you defend yourself from a troll, you can have your posts deleted and be banned, while they seem to carry on regardless, which was always baffling to me.
Finally, there is a upvote and downvote system. Upvotes get posts to the top of the list, while downvotes get it put to the bottom. This results in echo chambers, where if others agree with you, you get upvoted, even if you're talking absolute bks. Whereas, you can often make a good argument or point but if the cult don't agree with you, it just gets downvoted to oblivion.
You then end up with a score called 'karma' which is basically a points system based on number of upvotes v's downvotes. In other words, if you got upvoted 100 times and downvoted 50 times, your karma score will be 50 points. These are just kind of pointless internet points, but some subreddits wont let you post unless you have so many karma points (and/or your account is a certain age).
Finally, in terms of the structure, each top level reply is a thread in its own right, with a hierarchical tree structure of sub comments, not dissimilar to the file structure on your computer, I guess would be the easiest way to explain it.
It is a confusing place that took me a while to get used to, and it has a lot of great info on, but a lot of dheads, woke snowflakes and trolls, but that's just the internet generally these days. I find it tends to be very left leaning and it's people are anti-social. You're probably not going to meet the same people as you do in the local pub and views on there are very much not the same as you find in the real world.
Don't know if this helps but that's the best I can do
holes. Redditors have acquired a reputation for being anti-social hermits who never leave the house and regard someone who drinks a couple of beers as alcoholics. Or if the weather is crap, then we're all doomed. Hysteria is rampant.As for the structure, it's divided up into 'subreddits'. These are essentially their version of subforums on here, i.e. The Lounge (closest thing I can think of in reddit is CasualUK). These subreddits are named with a prefix of r, so it's r/CasualUK. Users are prefixed with u, so for me it would be u/TameRacingDriver.
Also, the moderators are very, what's the word... strict, I guess that's the politest word you can say. They will ban you for making a joke (in fact, I'm currently banned) if they deem it to be too close to the bone. If you defend yourself from a troll, you can have your posts deleted and be banned, while they seem to carry on regardless, which was always baffling to me.
Finally, there is a upvote and downvote system. Upvotes get posts to the top of the list, while downvotes get it put to the bottom. This results in echo chambers, where if others agree with you, you get upvoted, even if you're talking absolute b
ks. Whereas, you can often make a good argument or point but if the cult don't agree with you, it just gets downvoted to oblivion. You then end up with a score called 'karma' which is basically a points system based on number of upvotes v's downvotes. In other words, if you got upvoted 100 times and downvoted 50 times, your karma score will be 50 points. These are just kind of pointless internet points, but some subreddits wont let you post unless you have so many karma points (and/or your account is a certain age).
Finally, in terms of the structure, each top level reply is a thread in its own right, with a hierarchical tree structure of sub comments, not dissimilar to the file structure on your computer, I guess would be the easiest way to explain it.
It is a confusing place that took me a while to get used to, and it has a lot of great info on, but a lot of d
heads, woke snowflakes and trolls, but that's just the internet generally these days. I find it tends to be very left leaning and it's people are anti-social. You're probably not going to meet the same people as you do in the local pub and views on there are very much not the same as you find in the real world.Don't know if this helps but that's the best I can do
Reddit is really straightforward and by far the best of the social media platforms for discussion rather than just spewing your thoughts into the void.
It's basically split into Communities (or SubReddits) which anyone can create. Those are all abbreviated down to r/communityname.
Individual users (or Redditors) are abbreviated down to u/Username and from someone's profile you can see all of their posts and comments in other communities
On the main home page at https://www.reddit.com you've got the standard search bar at the top. Anything you start to type like "Volvo" will first give you a list of communities, so if you wanted a general discussion, then R/Volvo is your best option - https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/
From there, you can search within that community for Airbags, and so on.
Users can upvote or downvote each post or comment.
Within each community you'll see a feed of posts, and you can change the sort order. The default is Hot, so anything recent that's had a lot of upvotes or responses. New is as you'd expect, the most recent content, and then there's also Top which is the most popular content of the week, month, year etc.
You can choose to join any of these communities that you want to interact with regularly, and they'll be included in the default feed you get on the home page. Just like any other social media site, they'll mix in some adverts and other communities they think you might like. Once you start interacting with it a bit, it's quite effective at suggesting relevant communities.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthiscar/ is good fun, just sort that one by New to get the fresh posts.
There's a *lot* of adult content on Reddit, but each community will have a NSFW label appended and it's easy to filter them out should you prefer.
Each community has it's own group of mods and it's own rules and general feel, but the karma system is really quite effective at keeping people within the lines
It's basically split into Communities (or SubReddits) which anyone can create. Those are all abbreviated down to r/communityname.
Individual users (or Redditors) are abbreviated down to u/Username and from someone's profile you can see all of their posts and comments in other communities
On the main home page at https://www.reddit.com you've got the standard search bar at the top. Anything you start to type like "Volvo" will first give you a list of communities, so if you wanted a general discussion, then R/Volvo is your best option - https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/
From there, you can search within that community for Airbags, and so on.
Users can upvote or downvote each post or comment.
Within each community you'll see a feed of posts, and you can change the sort order. The default is Hot, so anything recent that's had a lot of upvotes or responses. New is as you'd expect, the most recent content, and then there's also Top which is the most popular content of the week, month, year etc.
You can choose to join any of these communities that you want to interact with regularly, and they'll be included in the default feed you get on the home page. Just like any other social media site, they'll mix in some adverts and other communities they think you might like. Once you start interacting with it a bit, it's quite effective at suggesting relevant communities.
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthiscar/ is good fun, just sort that one by New to get the fresh posts.
There's a *lot* of adult content on Reddit, but each community will have a NSFW label appended and it's easy to filter them out should you prefer.
Each community has it's own group of mods and it's own rules and general feel, but the karma system is really quite effective at keeping people within the lines
Edited by Alex Z on Saturday 5th October 10:20
Subreddit - subforum, except anyone can create one with their own rules. There are a few big subreddits that do essentially the same thing as another and the names and rules aren't always obvious (e.g. r/Linux doesn't allow support requests, r/superbowl is about owls, not American football)
Each subreddit has a bunch of links or text posts or images with discussions like any thread on PH
Discussions have top level comment and each comment can be replied to like a tree
A lot of the people there are weird and the mods and admins are often on a perpetual power trip
Each subreddit has a bunch of links or text posts or images with discussions like any thread on PH
Discussions have top level comment and each comment can be replied to like a tree
A lot of the people there are weird and the mods and admins are often on a perpetual power trip
Reddit is hilarious, I often want to link UKpolitics when NP&E is accused of being batst.
Always go to old.reddit.com and not that god awful new site if using the web, there is such a wealth of information on there, no matter what has been asked an expert will be there lurking to answer the question.
Also has funny cat pics.
t.Always go to old.reddit.com and not that god awful new site if using the web, there is such a wealth of information on there, no matter what has been asked an expert will be there lurking to answer the question.
Also has funny cat pics.
The Gauge said:
Some good explanations above, thank you, gives me an understanding now of how it works.
But I do wonder what jumbled up mind came up with the structure idea, but then maybe that reflects reddit perfectly
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It's nickname is the front page of the Internet. I think it views itself as the top level entry point to everything else. Everything is a sub.But I do wonder what jumbled up mind came up with the structure idea, but then maybe that reflects reddit perfectly
?lambosagogo said:
But one big difference is that while each thread here is just a single conversation with all replies coming consecutively, there it all branches. That means one person can post something, 3 people reply and then 3 separate discussions happen as people reply to those posters.
I suppose there’s pro and cons to forums with branch structures but it makes it a right pain if you want to see all the posts and there no option to flatten it.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff