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There Are Reddits Inside Reddit?
Who’s Your Daddy?
You’re Putting That Where? When?
Titles Are Everything, Comments Too!
TIL Reddit Counts Votes Logarithmically
Accounts Matter, But Don’t Matter
Ack! There’s Ads on Reddit?
MultiReddits
Reddit Gold
TL;DR… Where’s The Cliff Notes

*YSK = You Should Know
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SubReddits individually created by user
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Admins run the site
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Their personalities
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You’re Putting That Where? When?
Understand Where to Submit
Redditlist.com
Biggest not always best
Remember FP though
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Resubmitting
Know the SubReddit Rules
TIL has to be two months old
BestOf is only for Reddit links
NSFW needs to be nude
World News excludes US
YSK is text only
Submit during ‘waking up hours
for Americans’
Morning EST
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Titles Are Everything, Comments Too!
Titles include descriptions, unique to Reddit
Comments set tone for submission
MUST be grammatically correct
MUST be accurate
Should contain established Reddit formats
(x-post /r/TIL)
TIL

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=The+logarithmic+scale
10 / 100 / 1000 + Time since submission
Downvotes really hurt 
Don’t abuse network or game Reddit

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Accounts Matter, But Don’t Matter
Established Accounts Bypass Some
Filters
Shadow Bans and Filters
New to Reddit
New to SubReddit
Account Filtered
Domain Filtered
Checks (While Logged Out)
View Profile for Page Not found
Check New Section

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SubReddits (aka categories) are user owned
Get to know the mods and how they run them
Submit to the right SubReddit
Amount of active users, how competitive,
targeted
Submit morning EST
Titles and Comments are super important
Proper grammar, established slang, accurate
First 10 votes are the most important, downvotes
hurt
Use comments to set the tone, don’t abuse
network
Account banned, then make another
Consider testing their Ad system
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