Reddiquette

Reddiquette, a blend of "Reddit" and "etiquette," is the informal, community-authored set of behavioural norms describing how users are expected to conduct themselves on Reddit. It is advisory guidance rather than enforceable site rules: where the sitewide Content Policy and subreddit rules can lead to removals and bans, reddiquette is closer to good-manners convention that the community polices socially. Its best-known tenet is "remember the human," a reminder that there is a real person behind every username.

Commonly cited reddiquette principles include reading a community's rules before posting, treating the downvote as a marker of off-topic or low-quality content rather than a disagree button, avoiding reposts and undisclosed self-promotion, crediting original sources, not begging for upvotes, and never posting others' personal information. Reddit historically maintained an official reddiquette page, and the concept is widely referenced across help articles, wikis and third-party guides. Reddiquette matters because much of Reddit's day-to-day order rests on shared norms enforced by ordinary users and volunteer moderators, not only on formal policy, and breaches of etiquette frequently shade into the behaviours the rules actually prohibit.