AMA

Alberta Motor Association
w:Alberta Motor Association

Initialism of Alberta Motor Association.


NTA

National Tax Agency
w:National Tax Agency

Initialism of National Tax Agency (of Japan), the Japanese government agency that collects taxes and enforces tax law.

National Tax Agency

w:National Transport Authority (Ireland)

(Ireland) Initialism of National Transport Authority.


NTA

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of not the asshole; used as a response to AITA (“am I the asshole?”).

not the asshole

(Internet slang) Initialism of not that anon.


downvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote against something that reduces a cumulative tally of popularity.


downvote

en-verb

downvote (third-person singular simple present downvotes, present participle downvoting, simple past and past participle downvoted)

downvotes (present singular third-person)
downvoting (participle present)
downvoted (participle past)
downvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote against, reducing a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

upvote (third-person singular simple present upvotes, present participle upvoting, simple past and past participle upvoted)

upvotes (present singular third-person)
upvoting (participle present)
upvoted (participle past)
upvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote for, increasing a cumulative tally of popularity.


redditor

This week’s find: a subreddit devoted to all the wonderfully deranged things people have done while under the influence of Ambien sleeping pills, or while experiencing a visit from the Ambien walrus, as redditors are known to call it.

2017 February 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “‘Things You Did on Ambien’ Is Peak Reddit”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-20:

Alternative letter-case form of Redditor


TIL

TIL that scientists call the universe's average color "cosmic latte".

Kids played with yo-yos in Ancient Greece? TIL.

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of today I learned...


LPT

en-noun

LPT (countable and uncountable, plural LPTs)

(Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of life pro tip.


Redditor

/ˈɹɛdɪtə(ɹ)/

From Reddit + -or, or as a blend of Reddit + editor.

Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.

2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140:

/u/RemindMeBot can be invoked by a Redditor to remind them of a thread or comment after a certain period of time.

2016, Robert W. Gehl, Maria Bakardjieva, Socialbots and Their Friends:

The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.

2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A contributor to Reddit, a news and discussion website.


subreddit

They wanted to give voice to their feeling, in one moderator’s words, that the company’s bosses ‘‘do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits,’’ as the individual forums are called.

2015 July 21, Adrian Chen, “When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But”, in New York Times:

We measure the similarity between entire subreddits both in terms of user similarity and topical similarity.

2015, Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno, “What do Democrats do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in Multi-Community Networks”, in arXiv:

(Internet) Any of the subforums, generally intended for discussion of a specific topic, on the Reddit web site.


reddiquette

(Reddit) Proper conduct to be followed on the website Reddit.


Predditor

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Blend of predator (“sexual predator”) + Redditor.

blend

(Internet slang, neologism) An online groomer on Reddit; a child predator who frequents Reddit.


front page of the Internet

the front page of the Internet (canonical)

Coined in 2005 by Paul Graham, American computer scientist and lecturer, in reference to a brainstormed idea for what would become Reddit.

(Internet) Reddit (an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website).


subredditor

Blend of subreddit + Redditor or from subreddit + -or.

In 2012, after a series of journalistic outlets began reporting on the forum, Reddit said they would not ban the /creepshot subredditor other similar forums, citing their long-held rule of only stepping in to moderate if content is[…]

2017 August 24, Amber Davisson, Paul Booth, Controversies in Digital Ethics, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48:

Rest of the series was actually pretty light, but I still feel like I get more enjoyment out of watching two a day max and taking some time in-between to digest” (Poster 4), another subredditor writes, “Just finished ep3.

2019 January 11, Matt Hills, Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 229:

If Wick used Bitcoin, writes one sensible subredditor, “at least he wouldn't have to bury [gold coins] in the floor of his house under fresh concrete.” 3 As more than one viewer has observed, Wick isn't a gold bug—the point of the coins[…]

2022 May 3, Caitlin G. Watt, Stephen Watt, The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:

(Internet) A frequenter of a subreddit, often of a specified one.


Reddit

en-verb

Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)

Reddits (present singular third-person)
Redditing (participle present)
Reddited (participle past)
Reddited (past)

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The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).

It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]

2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 6997:

... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.

2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 404:

Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.

2010 June 21, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins, Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 184:

(Internet slang, transitive) To mention on the website Reddit.


karma whore

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First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.

But the site's system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting.

2019 May 31, Brian Burlage, “Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore'”, in Vice:

People who aim to accrue karma on reddit are referred to as, even by themselves, as karma-whores.

2020, John R Gallagher, Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing, page 54:

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) Someone excessively dedicated to gaining karma (“a score assigned to a user or post on a discussion forum, indicating popularity or perceived value”), often by disagreeable methods such as reposting content or creating fake stories.


karma whore

karma whore (third-person singular simple present karma whores, present participle karma whoring, simple past and past participle karma whored)

karma whores (present singular third-person)
karma whoring (participle present)
karma whored (participle past)
karma whored (past)

Though this might seem to be a performance-contigent reward, there are well-known tricks for posting comments that wil be well-received, even though they contribute little to the conversation, such as resposting popular comments from previous conversations or reciting inside jokes. Such activities earned their own colloquial name "karma whoring."

2012, Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Building Successful Online Communities, page 57:

But claims of photoshopping and "karma whoring" didn't unmask a troll — instead, it spurred "pussyrammer" to post photographic proof that she was who she claimed to be.

2012 December 27, Neetzan Zimmerman, “Sister of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Has Hard Time Convincing Reddit of Identity Because Her Username is 'Pussyrammer'”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:

A rather simple case of Karmawhoring is embodied in posts providing narrative teasers of possible stories. The respective users assure they would be willing to tell more, if only other users would upvote the post in advance.

2014, Annika Richterich, “Karma, precious Karma: 'Karmawhoring' on Reddit and the Front Page's Econometrisation”, in Journal of Peer Production:

Here's the whole story, which scores a one on the Reddit karma-whoring scale. That means I totally believe it because I have also accidentally almost burned down everything in my immediate vicinity while being distracted by the TV or the telphone.

2015 January 6, Mark Shrayber, “Man Sets House on Fire While Trying to Boil His Dildos Clean”, in Jezebel:

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) To act as a karma whore.


updoot

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'Thanks for the updoots in hopes of finding her. I'm hoping she didn't cease to exist after I saw her.'

2015, Amanda Fisher, quoted in "My identical stranger: Woman is shocked to find her doppelganger on Instagram", Daily Mail, 11 August 2015

Creating and designing asthetically pleasing maps to share on Reddit for updoots and karma.

2015, anonymous, quoted in Kim Axelsson & Kasper Batalje, "Utforskning i spel och immersionens djup", thesis submitted to Södertörn University, page 34

A third poster provided a more detailed response, writing “Woke up to so many kind words and updoots [upvotes]. Thank you everyone! I’m really touched by the support of this community. You guys are awesome.”

2019, anonymous, quoted in Brent J Hale, "Responding to depression-related Imgur posts: A content analysis of social support and nonbona fide features in user-generated comments", Digital Health, Volume 5 (2019) (link)


updoot

updoot (third-person singular simple present updoots, present participle updooting, simple past and past participle updooted)

updoots (present singular third-person)
updooting (participle present)
updooted (participle past)
updooted (past)


downdoot

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downdoot

downdoot (third-person singular simple present downdoots, present participle downdooting, simple past and past participle downdooted)

downdoots (present singular third-person)
downdooting (participle present)
downdooted (participle past)
downdooted (past)


WDYWT

The fashion concept was uploaded to a Reddit thread entitled "WDYWT" (What Did You Wear Today?) by r/streetwear, a community that welcomes all users to share their fashionable photos without being scorned.

[2019 April 16, Hana Otsuka, “Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital gown turned into a fashion statement, compliments by netizens”, in The Independent Singapore News, archived from the original on 2021-05-12:

(Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of what did you wear today?.


ask me anything

en-noun

ask me anything (plural ask me anythings)

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This style of interview was popularized in the r/IAmA subreddit founded in 2009, where users post prompts for others to ask questions by stating who they are and adding the phrase “Ask me anything!”.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, returned to Reddit this week for an Ask Me Anything that covered everything from net neutrality to memes to the online harassment of women.

2015 March 11, Abby Ohlheiser, “What Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, has to say about Internet harassment”, in The Washington Post:

We volunteer our time to help manage the subsection called IAmA — a popular part of the site where thousands of interviews, known as “ask me anythings,” take place.

2015 July 8, Brian Lynch, Courtnie Swearingen, “Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, often attributively) An online interactive interview in which people can ask the interviewee questions about any topic, typically through the website's comment system.


power mod

"Once a fairly free site, in the wake of these power mods it has become restricted and apersonal," Rootin-tootin_putin continued in an email to the Daily Dot. "The point of peer moderators was to ensure that the person in charge of a sub was someone who genuinely cares about the topic; these power mods undermine this entirely."

2020 May 19, Colleen Hagerty, “Reddit's top user says he's 'done' after being outed”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2023-01-28:

(Reddit, derogatory) Someone who has a significant amount of influence across Reddit due to being a moderator of many subreddits.


Plebbit

quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.


modmail

modmail (countable and uncountable, plural modmails)

They asked for simple things like updates to their “modmail,” the internal message tool that moderators use to manage their groups.

2018, Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You, Doubleday, →ISBN:

She mostly kept to protocol when issues arose here and elsewhere, trying to message moderators through modmail, the internal Reddit mail system, where she was sometimes known as Alex.

2018, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, Piatkus, →ISBN:

We used this modmail feature to contact the moderators thereafter.

2020, Koustuv Saha, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Sarmistha Dutta, Eva Sharma, Munmun De Choudhury, “Understanding Moderation in Online Mental Health Communities”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media. Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 95:

(uncountable) A messaging system on Reddit used for communication between moderators and other Redditors.


r/woooosh

From r/woooosh, a subreddit (discussion forum) on the American social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit in which Redditors post about Internet users who misinterpreted sarcastic statements as earnest, i.e. the joke went over their head. The subreddit name is thus taken from the onomatopoeia whoosh, representing the sound of a joke ostensibly flying over one's head. On Reddit, subreddits can be converted into hyperlinks by typing out their name in full, preceded by r/.

my friend you need some lessons in sarcasm
r/woooosh

They're laughing at you not getting the joke man. r/woooosh

2019 February 17, @sheldon_daily, Twitter:

I'm sorry but r/woooosh

Hopefully you GET it's a JOKE cuz r/woooosh

r/woooosh never been on twitter before?

(Internet slang, metonymically) Synonym of whoosh.