​What six weeks on Reddit taught me about getting seen with a new account

I spent the last six weeks trying to understand Reddit a bit more seriously. Not to test a business idea or push anything, just to see whether a small account can actually get seen here and how the platform reacts when you post regularly.

I expected something simple. It wasn’t. A lot of the rules that matter are not written anywhere. You just discover them by posting, getting ignored, posting again and paying attention. Here are a few things that stood out to me.

1. New accounts start almost invisible

During the first days I kept thinking my posts weren’t interesting. Later I realised they were simply not being shown. New accounts get held, filtered or quietly limited. Nothing personal. Just how Reddit protects itself. It feels like talking into a void at the beginning.

2. Global karma does almost nothing

I didn’t know this before. You can have decent global karma and still be a ghost inside a specific subreddit. Reddit seems to care mainly about one thing: are you trusted here, in this room, with these people. A few normal comments inside one sub can help more than posting everywhere.

3. Each subreddit behaves like a different world

This was the biggest surprise. Every sub has its own pace, its own rules, its own tolerance and even its own sense of humour. You don’t warm up Reddit as a whole. You warm up one community at a time. Once I understood that, things made a lot more sense.

4. Tone matters more than content

Anything that sounds like a lecture dies immediately. But when you speak like a normal human sharing something you noticed, people reply. Reddit reacts to tone far more than technique.

5. Honest moments work better than polished posts

I learned this the hard way. My well-structured posts didn’t do much. The ones where I shared a small doubt or a real moment did much better. Even in technical subs, authenticity gets more traction than perfection.

6. Asking a real question changes everything

This was the clearest pattern. If I end with a real question that invites comparison, people answer. When people answer, Reddit boosts the post. If nobody answers, it fades. Comments seem to be the real fuel here.

I’m still early in the learning curve, but these six weeks changed how I see the platform. Reddit feels less like a place where you broadcast something and more like a set of small rooms that slowly open when you show up in a genuine way.

What about you. What did you learn when you first started posting here