About r/NewToReddit
In its own words:
Absolutely no asking for or offering karma or votes! | Unofficial help community for all Redditors to ask questions about how to Reddit! | Chat post every Tuesday, and see our top post (sort by 'hot') to learn about karma! | For official help see r/help or r/bugs
Community guide
r/NewToReddit (#579, about 1.9 million subscribers) is oriented around: Absolutely no asking for or offering karma or votes! | Unofficial help community for all Redditors to ask questions about how to Reddit! | Chat post every Tuesday, and see our top post (sort by 'hot') to learn about… Recent activity samples show 355 posts/day in recent samples (~100% text). Public rules we collected include: Be kind, decent, polite, & respectful. SFW content only. Tag post NSFW if profile is 18+; Only post once per 72hrs; Refrain from asking for votes or karma, naming free karma subs, or sharing how you are voting.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities. Submission type is set to “self” in metadata—link/text expectations may differ from open “any” rooms.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Common flairs in samples include: NEEDS ATTENTION, ANSWERED, Removed, ANSWERED by AutoMod. Volume is high—clear titles help your post survive the firehose.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 2, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 15,955 subscribers (+0.84%). It sits just behind r/JusticeServed (#578) and ahead of r/TwoSentenceHorror (#580) in our ranking.
What sets r/NewToReddit apart
r/NewToReddit is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. r/NewToReddit is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.1 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1. For its size it is unusually busy: about 186.1 new posts a day per million members, more than 99% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 4.82% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 100% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/NewToReddit went up from 1,819,052 to 1,906,762 subscribers (+87.7K, +4.82%). That is about 1,993 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/NewToReddit talks about
Looking at the titles of 675 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “karma”, “account”, “help”, “anywhere” and “comments”. Other frequent themes are comment, subreddits, low, hey, hello and banned. Recurring phrases include “low karma”, “comment karma”, “shadow banned” and “karma points”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: NEEDS ATTENTION (502), ANSWERED (14), Removed (9), ANSWERED by AutoMod (6).
Activity and best time to post
r/NewToReddit gets about 350 new posts a day. The public archive holds 295,056 posts and 1,217,077 comments in total, about 4.1 comments per post.
Rules of r/NewToReddit
The moderators of r/NewToReddit list 11 rules. In short:
- Be kind, decent, polite, & respectful. SFW content only. Tag post NSFW if profile is 18+
- Only post once per 72hrs
- Refrain from asking for votes or karma, naming free karma subs, or sharing how you are voting
- Use the weekly threads for subreddit recommendations & chat
- Refrain from sharing specific community requirements
- Be as accurate and understanding as you can
- Be considerate in negative situations (details below)
- Promotions should be shared elsewhere
- Share rants, venting, complaints, political, or agenda-driven content elsewhere please
- Be on topic; ask for assistance using Reddit or assist others
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/NewToReddit and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/NewToReddit have?
r/NewToReddit has 1,906,762 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #579 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 87,710 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/NewToReddit?
r/NewToReddit was created on Sep 2, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 22, 2011.
How active is r/NewToReddit?
Very active: r/NewToReddit gets about 350 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 295,056 posts and 1,217,077 comments. In a sample of 675 recent posts we counted 632 different authors.
What is r/NewToReddit about?
The community describes itself as: “Absolutely no asking for or offering karma or votes! | Unofficial help community for all Redditors to ask questions about how to Reddit! | Chat post every Tuesday, and see our top post (sort by 'hot') to learn about kar…” Recent post titles often mention karma, account, help, anywhere and comments. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/NewToReddit safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/NewToReddit as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/NewToReddit?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/NewToReddit accepts text posts only. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Be kind, decent, polite, & respectful. SFW content only. Tag post NSFW if profile is 18+”; “Only post once per 72hrs”; “Refrain from asking for votes or karma, naming free karma subs, or sharing how you are voting”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/NewToReddit?
Communities with similar topics include r/help (1.4M), r/Sims4 (2M), r/instantkarma (2.4M), r/AskEngineers (2.7M) and r/toptalent (3.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/NewToReddit.