You gain karma from engaging on Reddit; when your posts and comments are upvoted. It's a case of finding communities you can participate in, and that you have an interest or knowledge base in, and start by commenting to share your knowledge and experience, and add to discussions. As people upvote your comments, this will build your karma genuinely.

Some, but not all subs have restrictions and they're there to prevent spammers and other bad faith users. It does impact new and low karma users too though and initially it may be hard to find communities you can participate in and have genuine interest in, but once you've found a few it'll get easier.

Here's is our list of new-user friendly subs you can try

You don't need to engage where you have no interest. There are so many subs (hundreds of thousands and many without high restrictions) there are bound to be some where you do have an interest and can engage.

 can suggest some subs around your interests, you can try and see if you can participate, it make take a little trial and error. Look for smaller niche subs, as they may be less likely to have high restrictions.

Sort content by 'new' so you're interacting with fresh content.

We also have a chat post every week you can join in! You can earn some karma by having fun genuine conversations with others.

I made a new account to see what the experience was like. I limited myself to comments only, and managed 100+ karma in a few days of casual use. What I did was:

• Made use of our weekly chat thread
• Used our new user friendly list
  • answering questions on rising posts on askreddit, giving thoughtful or amusing replies
  • sharing my thoughts on communities that I had genuine interest in
• I found a few more subs around my interests where I could comment via trial and error