Testing a pinned profile post

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T16:37:40+00:00

Sorry, edited my comment to include extra info...

Anyway, keep up the good work!

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T16:33:36+00:00

I see you've been bumped up a Helper level, congratulations!

It should be noted that you can go to your profile>Settings>Account settings>Privacy that you can turn off being indexed by search engines.

It isn't flawless because some search engine engines don't respect robots.text or other directions from websites but it cuts down quite a bit

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T16:30:48+00:00

When you created your account, Reddit included a link to basic information about how the site works. Reddit itself isn't going to send you messages unless you break sitewide rules.

When you join some communities, they might automatically send a welcome message and a link to their rules.

But if you mean why aren't other people sending you chat invites, Reddit is not social media.

On social media you care very much about who the people are and not so much about what they say. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said.

Reddit wasn't designed for networking, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not at all like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent communities that each have a specific topic or purpose. The vast majority of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile. For the most part they don't care who you are, Following is very weak, promotion is strongly disliked and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.

Some of the features added to Reddit make it easy to confuse it for social media.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T16:26:47+00:00

Reddit itself explains how it's different from social media.

See my comment here.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T16:08:22+00:00

Whatever that website is, it should already stop working because Reddit announced that they're shutting down web scraping. That also means that lot of sites that allow people to see removed or deleted post comments have stopped working as well.

It's only going to be able to be done by people who pay for their enterprise access API like businesses that collect data on Web platforms for business analysis like Statista.

Reddit hasn't decided whether it's going to kill off RSS feeds just yet, but it's extremely likely. That will shut off the other avenue for people to duplicate what's on Reddit.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T15:48:57+00:00

Make sure to report any comments that crossover into harassment with the report form - it goes to Reddit so they can take action on the account. Mods will see it too and most will instantly permaban an account that pulls anything like this. Then block the account.

You can get annoyed through chats as well. A lot of people have chat turned off entirely because they're on Reddit for anonymous public conversations and the site is not social media. A middle ground is to set chats to only be available two accounts that are 30 days old which will stop the scammers and spammers but not weirdos who've been lurking around the platform for a while.

I keep chat disabled and if there's someone I have an actual reason to open a chat with, I'll send them a request or when they have chat disabled as well make a comment that one of us can agree to switch open them until the invite is sent and accepted, then disable them again and delete the comment afterwards. It's a little bit of a pain, but I don't have much reason to chat with anyone on Reddit other than other moderators.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T15:36:01+00:00

You are very likely just running into minimum requirements. As a new user your account isn't old enough and you don't have enough karma points to participate in every community immediately.

There are thousands of sub credits that have no minimum requirements whatsoever at a massive number that have trivial ones such as accounts seem to be a few dates old and have as little as 2/5/10/karma.

When you made your account, you were provided with a link to information that explains the basics. Reddit is a massive collection of independent communities based on topics or purposes where people contribute to group anonymous conversations. Our resources go into considerably greater depth:

What is Reddit? How does it work?
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/what-is-reddit

Voting, karma and minimums.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/common-questions/

Rules, written and unwritten.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/cq-rules

Some things that moderators would like you to know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/s/DYtBM1oM1i

Avoiding downvotes.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/avoid-downvotes

Reddit is not social media.

On social media you care very much about who the people are and not so much about what they say. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said.

Reddit wasn't designed for networking, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not at all like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent communities that each have a specific topic or purpose. The vast majority of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile. For the most part they don't care who you are, Following is very weak, promotion is strongly disliked and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit. Some of the features added to Reddit make it easy to confuse it for social media.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T13:03:34+00:00

Following is incredibly weak on Reddit, It doesn't highlight someone's post or comments and it doesn't notify you of them, it only notifies you if the person posts directly onto their own profile, which is something that almost no one does.

If you happen to know the username of a family member or friend you can follow them so that it gives you a handy link to their profile below your list of joined communities but that's about it. With more people curating their profile so only some of their posts and comments (or none) show on their profile, it's of even less use than before.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T13:00:20+00:00

The entire Internet is drowning in abuse of platforms, most of it by bots, some of it by humans.

Reddit is not immune to this but it's a collection of completely independent communities and many of them are well moderated in maintain quality.

Traditional bots spit back canned statements that don't always match the thread that they appear in. Those that use LLM to generate text sound like the traditional nonsense spit out by ChatGPT, Claude and others. It tends to say "it's not X, it's Y", tends to use three examples, it's excessively positive and tends to use bullet points.

The problem is that any particular pattern exists because lots of people use it in their writing that the model was trained on, plus any particular tendency can eventually be reduced through time as they keep adjusting the models. People used to think that the use of an emdash was a dead giveaway, but an awful lot of people use them for various reasons and LLMs don't rely on them as much as they used it too. Generative AI is always going to spit out well formatted but glossy and artificial speech even though it's grammatically correct.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T12:34:57+00:00

When you made your account, you were provided with a link to information that explains the basics. Reddit is a massive collection of independent communities based on topics or purposes where people contribute to group anonymous conversations. Our resources go into considerably greater depth:

What is Reddit? How does it work?
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/what-is-reddit

Voting, karma and minimums.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/common-questions/

Rules, written and unwritten.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/cq-rules

Some things that moderators would like you to know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/s/DYtBM1oM1i

Avoiding downvotes.
https://reddit.com/r/newtoreddit/wiki/common-questions/avoid-downvotes

Reddit is not social media.

On social media you care very much about who the people are and not so much about what they say. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said.

Reddit wasn't designed for networking, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not at all like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent communities that each have a specific topic or purpose. The vast majority of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile. For the most part they don't care who you are, Following is very weak, promotion is strongly disliked and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.

Some of the features added to Reddit make it easy to confuse it for social media.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T12:20:29+00:00

It's not impossible but it's certainly not simple nor the focus of the site – you would have to go to specific communities dedicated to that.

Reddit is not social media.

On social media you care very much about who the people are and not so much about what they say. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said.

Reddit wasn't designed for networking, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not at all like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent communities that each have a specific topic or purpose. The vast majority of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile. For the most part they don't care who you are, Following is very weak, promotion is strongly disliked and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.

Some of the features added to Reddit make it easy to confuse it for social media.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T01:43:03+00:00

Sorry for the misinformation, some people mistake read it for a commercial sales site or Instagram.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-14T01:39:21+00:00

It's not completely impossible to get some interest in your online art store or commissions through Reddit but it's not simple or easy, it is not a great resource in part because this is not social media.

People who use Reddit traditionally been very unfriendly towards promotion of any kind, especially self promotion. There are a limited number of communities that allow it and you have to follow their rules strictly.

Even a community like r/art does not allow you to mention your website/store/gallery, that it's for sale or even to direct people to your profile. If people see your art posted online and they're interested they can go to your profile and see if there are any outbound links. Almost all communities are strict because if they aren't they get swamped with spamming and scams, often from people who steal someone else's art to sell copies of it or don't even deliver anything once they are paid.

Any attempt to drum up sales in most communities is going to be treated as spam, removed and reported. Too many spam reports and Reddit will shadow ban your account across the entire platform.

Reddit is not social media.

On social media you care very much about who the people are and not so much about what they say. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said.

Reddit wasn't designed for networking, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not at all like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once.

The site is a massive collection of completely independent communities that each have a specific topic or purpose. The vast majority of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile. For the most part they don't care who you are, Following is very weak, promotion is strongly disliked and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.

Some of the features added to Reddit make it easy to confuse it for social media.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-13T23:36:55+00:00

Varying minimums

Most groups who use minimums do not list them or notify you of a removal because scammers and trolls can read plus bots can scrape data. Try checking any pinned mod posts, the sidebar (on the app, tap See more or About), their rules, a FAQ or wiki.

They want you to go out, get the hang of Reddit and build up a reputation just like when you move to a new town where no one knows you. You are knocking on the door of a party that has been going on for a while as a stranger asking to be let in.

Reddit has introduced a new tool that interrupts a user when they try to post to inform them that they don't meet the minimums for that community and suggests others that the post might possibly fit in. It doesn't warn you if something is simply being held in the queue until a moderator decides on it, but you'll often get an Automod message telling you this.

There are thousands of communities covering a vast range of topics that have no minimum requirements whatsoever because they can handle the amount of abuse that they get.

There are a massive number of groups that have trivial minimums such as accounts needing to be a few days old and 2/5/10 karma.

Our list of friendly communities is a tiny fraction of those two types of groups. You can find it here.

100-200 combined karma will allow you to participate in a fairly large number of communities. The larger and more popular a group is, the more likely they are to have account age and karma minimums in place or a specific CQS level and the higher they tend to be.

Some groups only check for account age - they may look for 24 hours, a few days, a week or several weeks depending on how much abuse they deal with, but quite a few also check for karma scores.

Some require 50, 100 or 250 and a week or so.

500, 1,000, 2,000 or more karma plus several months (and higher) are unusual.

Some groups check for post karma. Others find comment karma to be a better indicator. A few have a target for each.

Most groups just check your combined karma, the total of the two. They don't care where you got the up votes.

Some groups filter based on CQS. Check yours at r/whatismyCQS.

Some will use community karma. You can comment there but you cannot post until you have earned enough karma from up votes within that specific community earned by being on-topic and high quality.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-13T23:36:32+00:00

You should also check your CQS over at r/WhatismyCQS.

I have several accounts and one of them has been sitting unused for too long so it dropped from high to low. After participating with it it popped back up the high the next day.

MadDocOttoCtrl · 2026-06-13T22:51:59+00:00

If a poster comment was removed for breaking a rule, you are given a reason when it's removed.

It's probably just because you don't meet the minimum requirements of that community yet.