Hi everyone, I’m trying to interact with different communities and get the most out of this app, but I keep being told that my account isn’t established? It’s over 4 years old so you’d think it would be by now 😂

I’ve tried to sort this out before, but never seem to get any closer to figuring it out

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  • Do you have a registered email attached to your account?

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    Thanks for the reply! Yeah I’ve got my gmail account linked to it

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  • Due to inactivity I would guess your !CQS is lowest (see below)

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    CQS (Contributor Quality Score)

    Help center article

    The contributor quality score is deliberately mysterious, but it includes a variety of signals such as a verified email or phone number, a history of good contributions, and past enforcement actions taken on your accounts. r/WhatIsMyCQS

    This score can be used by communities and Reddit in a few ways:

    • Mods can use it to create a restriction as shown in the article above, so that if you do not meet their CQS score requirement, AutoMod will remove your content in their community.

    • Sending and creating chats is limited for all accounts; once you reach the limit, you'll have to wait a while to send more. This includes community invites. Help center article. We think the 'established account' part means good CQS.

    • Chat channels can be restricted, and we think this is based on your contributor quality score, too.

    • Reddit's reputation filter is informed by CQS, and mods can choose to turn this on in their communities. Mods can only turn it on, they do not have any further control over it.

    If your CQS is low, secure your account. Avoid removals and bans by reading community rules. And, presumably, earn more karma.

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    Thank you! So it seems that I’ll just have to earn more karma in that case then? As I’ve already secured my account and I don’t believe I’ve had any removals/bans before

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    Reddit's Reputation Filter looks at a number of things with the core seeming to be your CQS score (see r/WhatIsMyCQS to test) as well as various other factors. This can be set at different levels in different subreddits. Users start with a low CQS. To build your CQS is again a bit opaque but the below can help (partially from here)

    • "Secure your account" by verifying your email
    • If you use a VPN test what happens when you turn it on and off ("network and location signals" play a part)
    • "Past Actions taken on a redditors account" which is posts and comments being removed
    • It seems to rise when you are actively commenting and posting, getting positive interactions (upvotes and comments)

    So from the last two you want to be participating by commenting and posting, getting upvoted and avoiding removals by mods or reddit itself. Which ends up with basically the same advice as building karma. Start by finding New User Friendly Subreddits:

    • Newtoreddit has a list of new user friendly subreddits. This is not an exhaustive list and these subreddits may still have some restrictions. In particular you'll see some Large General Subreddits that are open to new users Commenting like r/askreddit, r/casualconversation, r/nostupidquestions, r/amitheasshole or similar.
    • There are More Subreddits out there that might more specifically match your interests, look through r/findareddit 's subreddit directory. In this case you will have to trial and error whether they are new user-friendly, and again try Commenting (many subreddits have lower or no karma filters for commenting).

    Some more notes on starting on Reddit:

    Newtoreddit Resources There are a lot of resources here in this subreddit you might find useful with The Common Questions Page, Reddit And Karma Walkthrough, and Frequently Asked Questions Page.

    View by New (or rising). This will filter the posts so first see the most recent posts first and can make your comments much more visible. On app when viewing a subreddit look near the top left for where it says "hot posts" - click that and select "new" or "rising".

    Read the Room and Avoid Controversy. Each subreddit has different rules, norms and prevailing views. Look at subreddit rules. Read top posts and comments to get a feel for that subreddit. Do users reward sarcastic one-liners or well sourced essays? And in particular avoid controversial topics or arguments. These discussions are more likely to attract downvotes and potentially trip into rule-breaking. Call people idiots in your head and move on instead of getting involved. Utilize the block feature as necessary and have a read of Reddiquette.

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