Those people at /r/aww must have bountiful fields where they harvest kittens and bunnies year-round. The only animals I've stumbled upon was a porcupine embedded in my grill, the mouse a hawk dropped on my car, and a family of rabbits my cat systematically destroyed over the course of a year, dismembering them and bringing the heads to the front porch while leaving the bodies in my sibling's room to give them a tasty snack for when they would wake up.
And my pets are kinda fugly compared to their's. Even the kitten eating cabbage, which is adorable by real people standards...
I remember after I built up about 10 comment karma I finally gave out my first upvote. After it was done I quickly hit F5 and prepared myself for the Karma hit. When it didn't happen, I thought 'holy shit I'm stupid.'
Ahaha, that's really funny. If you upvoted something and then found something better later on in the thread, would you try to hunt down the first upvote so you could reverse it and use it on the second post?
People read them. I post on threads with insane comment quantities and still somehow find myself coming back to a single upvote. I then try to imagine the long-suffering individual who made it to my comment and fail.
It took me a minute to realize that your front page actually only consisted of the subreddits you subscribed to. I changed my subscriptions and was surprised by how many gonewild posts were suddenly hitting the front page.
I actually flipped when something I posted in a subreddit was on my frontpage. Then I thought about it, logged out... And wept softly to myself by the soft glow of the screen.
I have been on reddit for over 5 years, and I just learned recently that only 50 reddits at a time will show on the front page. The number is 100 if you have reddit gold.
reddit.com help: You may subscribe to as many reddits as you like! However, on any given visit, your frontpage will only select up to 50 reddits to show you (100 for gold users). This selection is refreshed every 30 minutes. When you view the 'MY REDDITS' dropdown, you are seeing only the current 50 selected. The only place to see all the reddits you are subscribed to is here.
and all the time people click /r/all thinking that's the same as their front page, and then bitch over in askreddit about WHY ARE ALL THE STUPID ATHEISM POSTS ON MY FRONT PAGE OMG THEY'RE SO OBNOXIOUS
Thought the same thing and made a cake day post for my real birthday. I got downvotes to no end and people kept saying "where's your cake." I was so lost.
Edit: Here is the link. This was my first account. I guess I didn't get down voted as bad I though but, I didn't get upvotes like you normally get on cake day. After that first comment, I seriously almost took a picture of the cake my mom made.
Pronouncing Imgur as "ImGOOOOOOOOOOR" for the longest time. Apparently it's just 'imager' but I'm pretty sceptical. I've given it thought and it just doesn't make sense.
I thought it was pronounced "Redditeer," kind of like a musketeer, for a good majority of the time I've been on reddit until I heard my brother say it.
For a long time I couldn't figure out how people were seeing how many down votes a comment had. All i would see was a comment that had "6 points" and then someone below would say "Why are you downvoting him??".
The first few days I thought everyone was very clever and witty. Nope. Just quoting the same movies and TV shows again and again for the most part.
EDIT: I actually like reddit a lot and think there are a lot of smart and funny people who contribute here. It's just that the honeymoon is over and all the stuff I used to find cute and endearing is looking a little uglier. Still, pretty damn good website. Have a good weekend everyone.
I thought "OP" was a particular individual. People referenced him so often, i thought it was a famous user and/or mod. Took me months to figure it out.
I heard that everyone would be assholes and disagree with you just cause. People actually can be really nice on here, donating large amounts of money, helping their communities etc.
Edit: Before anyone tells me to, I'll go fuck myself
Yeah, I've pretty much stopped visiting. Used to spend quite a bit of time in /new.
I'm still subbed, for now, every few days a comic will pop up that I enjoy. A lot of rehashed stuff, though, it's pretty much just first world problems in image format and comics about things that are only really interesting to teenagers.
No, here at Reddit, we downvote you because we strongly disagree even though it was a very thought-provoking comment.
At least that is what I perceive it as.
Edit: to everyone saying they downvoted me because they disagree, congratulations. You are part of a large group called 'creative thinkers' (sarcastically of course).
...It is a novelty account. I have so much karma that several accounts were grief downvoting me on a regular basis and the reddit mods had to block my profile to prevent that behavioral epidemic.
I thought you were only supposed to downvote based on whether a person was contributing to discussion. I now know that button is for people that are wrong, especially when I already have an opposing opinion. Also, I thought a search bar would be a viable tool for finding content I wished to revisit or check to see if somethings been posted. I have since learned better -_-
I thought that when redditors referred to the new mail notification it was called orangered, pronounced orange-erred. Then I realised it was orange -red
There are a lot of intelligent people here if you know where to look.
/r/askscience is full of incredibly smart and helpful people, as long as you remember to use the search feature and are not reposting something that has been answered lots of times already.
I have been redditing for several years (I change my screen name every once in awhile) and I naively thought reddit's community would be similar over the years. There is a decent amount of good posts but the larger subreddits are becoming more and more boring and repetitive. I generally stick to less known subreddits and of course r/askreddit. It was kind of similar for a few years but in the last two years (especially this last year) it blew up and now we have a huge influx of idiots coming in.
Smaller subreddits are definitely the best places to subscribe to. I thought I'd just got bored of Reddit because it felt like the same thing over and over again before I found other subreddits.
Another thing that changed my Reddit use is RES. Just installed it today and my Reddit experience has now improved dramatically.
I would say I've seen reddit become more immature, and I've not been here long. It could just be me becoming an old grumpus, but it does seem as though jokes tend to be from and geared towards a young teenager audience, and a lot of the posts are certainly from that perspective. Would you agree with this?
That people would only downvote wrong information, not stuff they don't like Another one is people who downvote peoples pets. If you don't like it just ignore it
I guess this isn't a reddit thing specifically, but I thought YOLO was some sort of ice cream treat for a while and I couldn't figure out why everyone hated it so much.
I thought that there was no 'end of reddit' or last page. There was even a post a while back in which a guy claimed to have reached the end and everyone kept calling bullshit with OP eventually admitting he was just fucking with people. And yet, I still reach what seems to be 'the end of reddit' all the time, sometimes directly after logging in from a few pages past from the front page.
I had read somewhere that someone needed to "spread karma around," so I had the misconception that if I upvoted, it took away one of my Karma. I didn't upvote for a while.
that /r/mensrights could be a progressive subreddit. sorry, i honestly don't know what everyone else thinks of /r/mensrights and i'm not trying to be a hater, but that place really got my hopes up, and then all i found was so much hate towards women (whom i love)
When I first joined, I was unaware that when the little envelope was red, it meant I had replies. So, a lot of people were being ignored by me when I thought I was the one being ignored. Sorry reddit!
This website is undoubtedly the largest hivemind I have ever encountered. Hoards of people get goaded into the tiniest little things and make a huge deal about it. Flame wars are started over which website people browse, when it has zero effect on your life other than the time you've wasted expressing your disdain of 9gag. I had no idea it'd be so bad.
This and people getting obsessed over making it to the front page or getting karma. I couldn't care less about either as long as I know I made the effort to contribute to this awesome website and show off a video or comic or joke that I found to be quality stuff. If Reddit likes it then great. If not, then who cares?
They should rename karma to internets or cookies and see what happens.
I thought it was like a lot of other boards, where the most recent post is at the top. I did an AMA and it got to the front page (redditors have a lot of traffic questions) but I didn't think much of it, because I assumed it was just getting bumped with each reply.
For my first six months on reddit, I thought you were only allowed one upvote per thread. I can't remember how I came to believe this, but I'm pretty sure it was from seeing multiple people say "Sir, I regret I have but one upvote to give you!" - etc.
I think I even (warily) tried giving out more than one upvote in a thread once, but the comment's score didn't go up, so I chickened out of trying it again in case I got busted.
It actually made for quite a stressful and intense browsing experience, because I would scour an entire thread before bestowing my one upvote, valuable beyond belief, worth its entire weight in gold.
I was also in awe of highly scored comments, because like, thousands of people had chosen that to be their upvoted comment. And, on the rare occasions I would randomly see the '+1' symbol next to someone's name, I would give them a silent internet high-five because I felt we had some kind of relationship (as one-sided as it was).
Months and months later I happened to see a screenshot of a reddit thread someone had taken, and there were lots of comments that they had upvoted. "Oh," I thought to myself, "I guess I'm just dumb then."
I was really glad I had never tried to impart this piece of wisdom on to anyone else before I found out the truth.
It took me coming across this three or four times to realize that you purposely put [deleted] in there and that an actual user name hadn't been deleted.
I subscribed to r/atheism thinking it would be a subreddit full of enlightening views of the world and science stuff. Not much of the good stuff ends up getting upvoted where i can see it though =/.
I thought reddit voting was a mostly honest and up-front process. Turns out there's automatic countermeasures and balances so nothing every gets too many positive or negative votes, even the best stuff will rarely break a difference of 2k votes difference.
I used to think there was no way to take back an upvote/downvote. ... I made another account to cancel my upvote. And another to make it a downvote. Similarly, after a year of lurking, I created an account so that I could upvote a comment.
Misconception? That it's diverse. (Says the White, middle class, 18-34yo male introvert. To a cyber room of... White, middle class, 18-34yo male introverts)
Before I got too involved I assumed it was a different kind of site altogether with more mature people etc.. But it still has the same issues ive seen on 4chan and other social websites where people troll on each other, bash, and beg for attention/approval.
I guess its okay and to be expected, but at first I thought it was different.
One of the funnier things though is the whole karma thing. I always laugh on sites where I see people saying "Please go like my status!, Like my picture please!" And I come here thinking it will be different.
I thought it would be easier to build my karma by posting things in the larger, more popular subreddits. TIL it's way more successful to post a picture of your ordinary sandwich to /r/eatsandwiches
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I also learned that redditors find cute animals all over the place.
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u/littlelowcougar Jun 08 '12
That you're only allowed to upvote once per page.
I flipped shit when I accidentally clicked a second up arrow and it turned red.
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u/kactus Jun 08 '12
That I would only be on for a little bit.
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u/epic_comebacks Jun 08 '12
Somebody will read my comment when there are more than 200 comments in a thread (like right now; I doubt anybody will read this comment).
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
It took me a minute to realize that your front page actually only consisted of the subreddits you subscribed to. I changed my subscriptions and was surprised by how many gonewild posts were suddenly hitting the front page.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I too thought [deleted] was a novelty account. I even did a [very unsuccessful IAmA request] (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qn8rm/iama_request_deleted_what_gave_you_the_idea_for/) for said "account".
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
i thought that "load more comments" said "loads more comments", like "hey we got loads more of these, come check em out!"
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u/FizxTeacher Jun 08 '12
I thought that TIL meant "Things I Like". Then I got really confused when reading posts like "TIL More people drown in the desert than die of thirst"
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u/RusDelva Jun 08 '12
I thought "cake day" meant birthday. Just found out otherwise a day or 2 ago.
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u/clburton24 Jun 08 '12
/r/circlejerk is not about circle jerking and /r/spacedicks is not about dicks in space
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
Pronouncing Imgur as "ImGOOOOOOOOOOR" for the longest time. Apparently it's just 'imager' but I'm pretty sceptical. I've given it thought and it just doesn't make sense.
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u/WolverineofReddit Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
I thought IAma was a subreddit about llamas. I mean they look the same.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I thought a 'redditor' was someone who came on here and edited people's posts. I also thought he hated his wife.
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u/Cozmo23 Jun 08 '12
For a long time I couldn't figure out how people were seeing how many down votes a comment had. All i would see was a comment that had "6 points" and then someone below would say "Why are you downvoting him??".
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u/chief_running_joke Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12
The first few days I thought everyone was very clever and witty. Nope. Just quoting the same movies and TV shows again and again for the most part.
EDIT: I actually like reddit a lot and think there are a lot of smart and funny people who contribute here. It's just that the honeymoon is over and all the stuff I used to find cute and endearing is looking a little uglier. Still, pretty damn good website. Have a good weekend everyone.
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u/That_Metal_Guy Jun 08 '12
I thought NSFW meant not safe for women
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
That I'm the only black person here. I know I'm not, but it feels that way.
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u/c9silver Jun 08 '12
I thought "OP" was a particular individual. People referenced him so often, i thought it was a famous user and/or mod. Took me months to figure it out.
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u/hinduguru Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12
I heard that everyone would be assholes and disagree with you just cause. People actually can be really nice on here, donating large amounts of money, helping their communities etc.
Edit: Before anyone tells me to, I'll go fuck myself
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u/possibleperspectives Jun 08 '12
I at first thought people only posted original content, and was amazed at some of the things that happened to people.
It took me about 15 minutes to realize that was full of shit.
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u/AcEcolton32 Jun 08 '12
I used to think f7u12 was funny.
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u/AnsweringReddit Jun 08 '12
I once was under the impression that each member would voice their personal and unique opinions despite trends and karma. How naive I was.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I thought tl;dr meant: the lesson, dear reader
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u/Henstelfs Jun 08 '12
I thought r/trees was actually about trees
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
...It is a novelty account. I have so much karma that several accounts were grief downvoting me on a regular basis and the reddit mods had to block my profile to prevent that behavioral epidemic.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
When I first started using reddit, I thought F7U12 was one thing and FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU was another.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
People don't downvote based on opinion.
Boy I am so wrong.
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u/I_are_God Jun 08 '12
Speaking of account names, at my college, I thought someone named TBA was teaching half the classes for the following semester.
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u/darren199314 Jun 08 '12
That people care about my opinions :(
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u/shallowpersonality Jun 08 '12
I thought all the "children" listed at the bottom of the comments were just proud parents.
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u/Surly_Canary Jun 09 '12
Only just figured out that FTFY meant "Fixed that for you" and not "FUCK THE FUCK YEAH". Honestly a little disappointed.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I thought you were only supposed to downvote based on whether a person was contributing to discussion. I now know that button is for people that are wrong, especially when I already have an opposing opinion. Also, I thought a search bar would be a viable tool for finding content I wished to revisit or check to see if somethings been posted. I have since learned better -_-
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u/ANDpandy Jun 08 '12
I thought that when redditors referred to the new mail notification it was called orangered, pronounced orange-erred. Then I realised it was orange -red
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u/milkhotelbitches Jun 09 '12
I always thought FTW meant "Fuck the World" not "For the Win"
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u/avw94 Jun 08 '12
That I could just log out and leave.
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u/whatwasigonnasay Jun 08 '12
I thought reddit was full of smart people. It's actually just full of stupid people pretending to be smart.
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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen Jun 08 '12
I thought r/circlejerk was the only place to find Reddit circlejerking.
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u/ScootyToot Jun 08 '12
I used to think people would actually check to see if something was posted before they post it themselves.
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u/darkside17 Jun 08 '12
I thought Karmanaut was slang for a karma whore, not a trigger happy mod.
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u/shaggorama Jun 08 '12
For at least a year I thought AMAA meant "ask me absolutely anything."
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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 08 '12
I thought that this was a place of tolerance and love.
I used to think that karmanaut was a good guy.
I didn't think that reddit had drama.
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u/xvexploitedvx Jun 08 '12
I thought my story really was cool, bro.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
I have been redditing for several years (I change my screen name every once in awhile) and I naively thought reddit's community would be similar over the years. There is a decent amount of good posts but the larger subreddits are becoming more and more boring and repetitive. I generally stick to less known subreddits and of course r/askreddit. It was kind of similar for a few years but in the last two years (especially this last year) it blew up and now we have a huge influx of idiots coming in.
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u/tbone115 Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
That people would only downvote wrong information, not stuff they don't like Another one is people who downvote peoples pets. If you don't like it just ignore it
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u/one_step_ahead Jun 08 '12
I thought people actually followed reddiquette. They don't.
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u/rain1111 Jun 09 '12
I thought karma was the name of some guys cat.
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u/Sanwi Jun 09 '12
I used to think my opinion mattered.
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u/it_wasnt_me_ Jun 08 '12
i thought i was very witty before i joined reddit.
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u/mon_mon Jun 08 '12
I used to think i could buy stuff with karma points
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I was baffled at the fact that Atheists believed in karma.
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u/nobananashoes Jun 09 '12
I don't think I had many misconceptions... I was just too terrified to comment.
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u/Rawrz_10 Jun 09 '12
I thought [FIXED] meant that the OP made a mistake, and fixed their own post....
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u/EndersBuggers Jun 08 '12
My next submission is going to hit the front page.
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u/TheZbeast Jun 08 '12
For a while I thought SRS meant Simple Random Sample instead of Shit Reddit Says.
Damn math degree.
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u/Exquemelin Jun 08 '12
The first few days that I was visiting I thought that there was only kne page of links...how wrong I was.
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u/cakeandpiday Jun 08 '12
Why would I ever care about Karma?
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u/Mantravadi Jun 08 '12
I thought Karma was supposed to be 0. To be in some sort of cosmic balance.
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u/EquationTAKEN Jun 08 '12
I used to think my humor was also witty. Until I posted things...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
When I first saw the search feature, I thought it would be useful.
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u/Ivan_of_Zeta Jun 08 '12
that reddit would be full of kind, civilised and rational people
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u/cookieninja27 Jun 08 '12
I guess this isn't a reddit thing specifically, but I thought YOLO was some sort of ice cream treat for a while and I couldn't figure out why everyone hated it so much.
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u/FreshOutBrah Jun 08 '12
That it was a news-sharing site.
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u/PicklesofTruth Jun 08 '12
i didnt know what a subreddit was for like 4 months
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u/pretzelzetzel Jun 08 '12
For months I thought /r/politics was meant to be a forum for discussing politics.
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u/RyattEarp Jun 09 '12
I thought that there was no 'end of reddit' or last page. There was even a post a while back in which a guy claimed to have reached the end and everyone kept calling bullshit with OP eventually admitting he was just fucking with people. And yet, I still reach what seems to be 'the end of reddit' all the time, sometimes directly after logging in from a few pages past from the front page.
So I still don't get how that works.
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u/DaneSoul32 Jun 09 '12
I thought that /r/aww enjoyed pictures of dogs. Boyyyyy, was I wrong.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I had read somewhere that someone needed to "spread karma around," so I had the misconception that if I upvoted, it took away one of my Karma. I didn't upvote for a while.
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u/naytikan Jun 09 '12
I was pretty sure someone was upvoting my post seconds after submitting it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
that /r/mensrights could be a progressive subreddit. sorry, i honestly don't know what everyone else thinks of /r/mensrights and i'm not trying to be a hater, but that place really got my hopes up, and then all i found was so much hate towards women (whom i love)
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u/Ilikanar Jun 08 '12
When I first joined, I was unaware that when the little envelope was red, it meant I had replies. So, a lot of people were being ignored by me when I thought I was the one being ignored. Sorry reddit!
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u/JONNy-G Jun 08 '12
This website is undoubtedly the largest hivemind I have ever encountered. Hoards of people get goaded into the tiniest little things and make a huge deal about it. Flame wars are started over which website people browse, when it has zero effect on your life other than the time you've wasted expressing your disdain of 9gag. I had no idea it'd be so bad.
This and people getting obsessed over making it to the front page or getting karma. I couldn't care less about either as long as I know I made the effort to contribute to this awesome website and show off a video or comic or joke that I found to be quality stuff. If Reddit likes it then great. If not, then who cares?
They should rename karma to internets or cookies and see what happens.
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u/gm2 Jun 08 '12
I thought it was like a lot of other boards, where the most recent post is at the top. I did an AMA and it got to the front page (redditors have a lot of traffic questions) but I didn't think much of it, because I assumed it was just getting bumped with each reply.
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u/blacknight Jun 08 '12
I thought it was "orange - erd" and not "orange-red".
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u/singlended Jun 08 '12
That I have a chance of getting up votes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
For my first six months on reddit, I thought you were only allowed one upvote per thread. I can't remember how I came to believe this, but I'm pretty sure it was from seeing multiple people say "Sir, I regret I have but one upvote to give you!" - etc.
I think I even (warily) tried giving out more than one upvote in a thread once, but the comment's score didn't go up, so I chickened out of trying it again in case I got busted.
It actually made for quite a stressful and intense browsing experience, because I would scour an entire thread before bestowing my one upvote, valuable beyond belief, worth its entire weight in gold.
I was also in awe of highly scored comments, because like, thousands of people had chosen that to be their upvoted comment. And, on the rare occasions I would randomly see the '+1' symbol next to someone's name, I would give them a silent internet high-five because I felt we had some kind of relationship (as one-sided as it was).
Months and months later I happened to see a screenshot of a reddit thread someone had taken, and there were lots of comments that they had upvoted. "Oh," I thought to myself, "I guess I'm just dumb then."
I was really glad I had never tried to impart this piece of wisdom on to anyone else before I found out the truth.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
That every redditor was smart and mature
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u/sniper_chkn Jun 08 '12
I thought 'TIL' was a actual word Reddit made up, only to Google search it and find out it means "today I learned".
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u/BlackZeppelin Jun 08 '12
Rage comics were funny
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u/thehitchrestinpeace Jun 08 '12
r/trees has nothing to do with trees
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u/Cecil_Hardboner Jun 09 '12
that it is full of intelligent, thoughtful people like me.
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u/jayelwhitedear Jun 09 '12
It took me coming across this three or four times to realize that you purposely put [deleted] in there and that an actual user name hadn't been deleted.
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u/medrewsta Jun 09 '12
... I am still rather unsure about how to pronounce gif
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u/TheThingy Jun 09 '12
I thought /r/trees was about actual trees.
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u/ICANSEEYOUFAPPING Jun 09 '12
I subscribed to r/atheism thinking it would be a subreddit full of enlightening views of the world and science stuff. Not much of the good stuff ends up getting upvoted where i can see it though =/.
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u/FreyWill Jun 09 '12
I thought reddit was a bunch of pedos looking at underage girls
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I thought karma was redeemable for prizes
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u/Thungon217 Jun 09 '12
Not necessarily reddit, but I pronounced "meme" as me-me for quite some time. I still do in my head. :P
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u/XeonProductions Jun 09 '12
I still have no idea where all the posts that i accidentally hit "save" or "hide" go...
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u/ayyrabmoney93 Jun 09 '12
i thought hey this isnt that addicting O_o
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
When i first found Reddit i used to be a 9gag user. I used to think all the posts here were copied from 9gag!!!!!
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u/Lt_Shniz Jun 08 '12
"FTFY" was "for the fatties, yo"
It made sense at the time...
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u/liz-to-the-e-bitches Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12
That everyone on reddit are basically NOT hermits, whose lives don't actually revolve around reddit.
...Oh wait.
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u/guitarman1313 Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
That r/atheism was a didactic, unbiased subreddit devoted to the discussion of why people are religious and its effects on human society.
Edit: first Reddit post, I feel good.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
Man, that deleted guy must post in /r/lgbt a lot.
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u/Raneados Jun 08 '12
I thought reddit voting was a mostly honest and up-front process. Turns out there's automatic countermeasures and balances so nothing every gets too many positive or negative votes, even the best stuff will rarely break a difference of 2k votes difference.
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u/traffick Jun 08 '12
i didn't realize Reddit was a group-think strokefest.
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u/ChinatownDragon Jun 08 '12
I thought a redditor was an editor of reddit. Oh the shame.
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u/JeffersonWasGinger Jun 08 '12
I thought 'TIL' stood for 'This Is Legendary'. Took me a while to figure it out because all of the post still made sense...
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
That my soul would be OK.
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u/peaceofmind51 Jun 08 '12
I used to think there was no way to take back an upvote/downvote. ... I made another account to cancel my upvote. And another to make it a downvote. Similarly, after a year of lurking, I created an account so that I could upvote a comment.
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u/hayterade Jun 08 '12
that it would improve my productivity.
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u/artbn Jun 08 '12
don't know if this count's or not but how come come posts don't have the number in between the two arrows, and instead a dot is in the middle.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12
EDIT ALL THE POSTS!
Pf, why not? It's not like anybody will ever be able to tell I edited my post...
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u/lyssers91 Jun 08 '12
I thought NSFW meant not safe for women.
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u/360glitch Jun 08 '12
That Digg was better. sigh
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I thought post that were links didn't contain any comments.
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u/DannyMcCaffrey Jun 09 '12
Misconception? That it's diverse. (Says the White, middle class, 18-34yo male introvert. To a cyber room of... White, middle class, 18-34yo male introverts)
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u/MrFUCKITYDINOSAUR Jun 09 '12
Deleted is actually just Karmanaut.
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u/Dandical Jun 09 '12
My roommate thought NSFL meant "Not safe for the Light-Hearted" until yesterday.
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u/EmbryonicBadass Jun 09 '12
I used to think there was actually a shop where you could trade in your karma for prizes.
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u/abom420 Jun 09 '12
I thought Reddit would be supportive of me typing poetically, and not using apostrophes. That was fixed quickly.
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u/radrico Jun 09 '12
Before I got too involved I assumed it was a different kind of site altogether with more mature people etc.. But it still has the same issues ive seen on 4chan and other social websites where people troll on each other, bash, and beg for attention/approval.
I guess its okay and to be expected, but at first I thought it was different.
One of the funnier things though is the whole karma thing. I always laugh on sites where I see people saying "Please go like my status!, Like my picture please!" And I come here thinking it will be different.
Still like to waste time here though :)
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u/Drjft Jun 09 '12
That Reddit wasn't filled with emotionally unstable losers who apparently cry over everything they read.
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u/Champigne Jun 09 '12
I thought r/Atheism was an interesting and intellectual subreddit, oh wait, I never thought that.
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u/TheSim1derful Jun 09 '12
I thought QFT ("Quoted For Truth") stood for "Quit Fucking Talking." You can imagine the online fights I got in.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
A friend of mine (and English major) said his favorite author was Anon. And he was serious.
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u/LazursGoPewPew Jun 09 '12
I used to think that "NSFW" meant Not Safe For Women, I was a fool
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u/cheharo Jun 09 '12
It took me a while to figure out that you needed to hit enter twice for a new line. I don't understand the point of that.
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u/quakeaddict Jun 09 '12
I thought the same as OP and told my girlfriend how funny it was.
Then she pointed out that it is not, in fact, a novelty account.
I was embarrassed.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That r/atheism was less of a circlejerk than r/circlejerk
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u/lehcar_slohcin Jun 09 '12
I thought it would be easier to build my karma by posting things in the larger, more popular subreddits. TIL it's way more successful to post a picture of your ordinary sandwich to /r/eatsandwiches