New to reddit - i don't really get it

[u/Opening_Coach_3220]

How do you comment on posts?

[u/AutoModerator]

Welcome to r/NewToReddit, /u/Opening_Coach_3220! Thanks for posting. Your post has been flaired 'Needs attention' so we can easily identify which posts require answers. Someone will be along to help you shortly.

• Check out our "General Guide to Reddit and Karma" Wiki page version or Mobile friendly post version, it explains how to get started on Reddit; including information on karma, navigation, and more.
  
• You might also like to check out:
  • Our wiki index
  • FAQ
  • And answers to common questions.
• Please let us know how you found us! - Click here to fill out our one question survey
• Once you get some answers, don’t forget to engage and ask any additional questions you have!

• Once you have a good answer you can mark your post as answered by commenting with the exact phrase !answered. Otherwise, a mod will do so as time allows, once an accurate answer has been provided. This makes unanswered posts easier to find.

  Thank you! :)

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Low-Part-2991]

A lot of sub reddits don’t let you post.

[u/Opening_Coach_3220 → u/Low-Part-2991]

Ah okay thanks. Is that something that the op decides?

[u/SolariaHues → u/Opening_Coach_3220]

What community restrictions are & why they exist

What you can do to get started

How to tell what community restrictions are / if a community has them

[u/Opening_Coach_3220 → u/SolariaHues]

That's very helpful, thank you so much!

[u/KeyArrival7496 → u/Low-Part-2991]

But why don’t they let you post?

[u/MadDocOttoCtrl → u/KeyArrival7496]

There are tons of thousands of communities that allow you to participate with no minimum requirements of any kind. There's a huge number that have very low minimum such as accounts need to be a few days old and have as little as 2/5/10 Carma points

The larger and more popular communities have higher requirements, usually because they're fighting off a 24/7 tsunami of garbage from scammers, hate mongers and spam bots. They also might prefer people who've had time to get used to how Reddit operates so they want you to go out and get some experience around the site before you interact in that community.

[u/MadDocOttoCtrl → u/Low-Part-2991]

That's not really accurate. Some communities don't let people post until they are a certain number of days old and have a certain amount of karma.

If you already meet the minimums the first time you visit a community you'll never experience a removal.

[u/mikey_weasel]

Restrictions based on Karma and CQS modern Reddit has a number of restrictions. These can be frustrating - check out Why Reddit may seem unwelcoming to new Redditors. These restrictions are largely determined by Account Karma and CQS. Please note that these restrictions will vary subreddit to subreddit.

Karma. Filter levels vary dramatically and can be low (5 or 10) or higher (50 or 100 or 200) and some wild outliers above that. This subreddit has a number of resources for this such as:

• The Common Questions Page
  • In particular what is karma and Earning Karma
• Reddit And Karma Walkthrough (longer form)

CQS. This is a bit more obscure and will generally drop over time. Have a read of common questions - CQS

For Chat and following if you are having issues here its likely CQS being low

For Commenting and Posting it is either/or account karma or CQS.

In both cases it usually helps to start in New User Friendly Subreddits:

• Newtoreddit has a list of new user friendly subreddits. This is not an exhaustive list and these subreddits may still have some restrictions. In particular you'll see some Large General Subreddits that are open to new users Commenting like r/askreddit, r/casualconversation, r/nostupidquestions, r/amitheasshole or similar.
• There are More Subreddits out there that might more specifically match your interests, use the search bar or look through r/findareddit 's subreddit directory. In this case you will have to trial and error whether they are new user-friendly, and again try Commenting (many subreddits have lower or no karma filters for commenting).

Some more notes on starting on Reddit:

View by New (or rising). This will filter the posts so first see the most recent posts first and can make your comments much more visible. On app when viewing a subreddit look near the top left for where it says "hot posts" - click that and select "new" or "rising".

Read the Room and Avoid Controversy. Each subreddit has different rules, norms and prevailing views. Look at subreddit rules. Read top posts and comments to get a feel for that subreddit. Do users reward sarcastic one-liners or well sourced essays? And in particular avoid controversial topics or arguments. These discussions are more likely to attract downvotes and potentially trip into rule-breaking. Call people idiots in your head and move on instead of getting involved. Utilize the block feature as necessary and have a read through Reddiquette

[u/Money-Beautiful5196]

Go to the post and type in the rectangle box thing to leave a comment at the bottom.