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# Reddit Terms

Reddit in plain English: subreddits, karma, flair, upvotes and downvotes, the Contributor Quality Score, cake day, AMAs and moderation.

## **A**

**1 term**

[**AMA (Ask Me Anything)****Reddit** AMA, short for Ask Me Anything, is an open Q&A format on Reddit where someone invites a community to ask them any question in a single thread.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/ama)

## **C**

**2 terms**

[**Cake Day****Reddit** Cake Day is the yearly anniversary of the day a Reddit user created their account, marked with a small cake icon next to their username.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/cake-day) [**Contributor Quality Score (CQS)****Reddit** Contributor Quality Score, or CQS, is Reddit's internal metric that measures how positively an account contributes to each subreddit it posts in.** Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/contributor-quality-score)

## **E**

**1 term**

[**ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5)****Reddit** ELI5, short for Explain Like I'm 5, is a request for a simple, jargon-free explanation of a complex topic that anyone could understand.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/eli5)

## **K**

**1 term**

[**Karma****Reddit** Karma is Reddit's point system that tracks how much the community has upvoted your posts and comments over time.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/karma)

## **N**

**1 term**

[**NSFW****Reddit** NSFW is a content label meaning Not Safe For Work, flagging material that is inappropriate to open in a professional setting.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/nsfw)

## **O**

**1 term**

[**OP (Original Poster)****Reddit** OP, short for original poster, is the person who created the original post in a Reddit thread, as opposed to the commenters.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/op-original-poster)

## **R**

**3 terms**

[**Reddit Front Page****Reddit** The Reddit front page is Reddit's main page, displaying the highest-ranked posts from across all subreddits.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/reddit-front-page) [**Reddit Gold / Awards****Reddit** Reddit Gold and awards are paid recognition tokens that users give to posts or comments they find valuable or entertaining.** Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/reddit-gold-awards) [**Repost****Reddit** A repost is content previously shared on a subreddit that gets posted again, either by a different user or the same one.** Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/repost)

## **S**

**1 term**

[**Subreddit****Reddit** A subreddit is a community on Reddit dedicated to a specific topic, identified by the r/ prefix, such as r/marketing or r/photography.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/subreddit)

## **T**

**2 terms**

[**Throwaway Account****Reddit** A throwaway account is a temporary Reddit account created specifically for anonymous posting, separate from a person's main identity.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/throwaway-account) [**TIL (Today I Learned)****Reddit** TIL, short for today I learned, is a post sharing a surprising fact or discovery, a format that originated on r/todayilearned.** Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/til)

## **U**

**1 term**

[**Upvote / Downvote****Reddit** Upvotes and downvotes are the two halves of Reddit's voting system, which decides how visible a post or comment is and where it ranks.**Read definition → **](https://www.postpone.app/social-media-glossary/upvote-downvote)