As for the Reddit deal, can you post a link for us non-reddit-types so that it's easy to find where you want the up-voting?
Hi BC, this is where you find UNO on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Unobtanium/How to use Reddit in 3 minutes:Reddit/sub-reddits: The
/r/ in a reddit address refers to a 'subreddit'. In a similar way, our UNO discussion thread here on Bitcointalk is in the 'Announcements (Altcoins)' sub-forum, which is loosely like a subreddit (same idea, different implementation).
To start, you might visit the
Unobtanium subreddit (remember,
/r/Unobtanium/, per the link above) and you'll see a list of posts (aka. 'threads' in forum-speak) in this subreddit. Pay attention to the tabs across the top of the page. By default, the
Hot tab is selected, which sorts all posts in this subreddit by a function of their age (how new they are) and by their upvotes (how popular they are, based on up-votes). If you want to just see the very newest posts, you'd click the
New tab. Conversely, if you just want to see the most popular posts for a particular time period (today, last week, last year, all time, etc.), you'd click the
Top tab.
To help you get your head around this, if you just go to
http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ you'll see everything that's coming through reddit right now. Again, the same tabs apply with
Hot being the default sorting view. You could click
Top to view the highest voted posts of all time if you wanted. While we're exploring reddit, there is a subreddit called
/r/bestof/, which is like a trophy room of the best and classic moments of reddit's history. Indeed, there are currently more than 570,000 subreddits.
Here's a wordcloud of the 2880 most busy subreddits right now, with the bigger/bolder words representing higher traffic/user activity.
Users: Moving on from subreddits (remembering /r/xyz/ gets you to subreddits), you can also explore user profiles by using
/u/ (for 'user'). So, going to
http://www.reddit.com/u/<username> will give you the user profile overview of whichever user you'd like to see (your own, mine, FK, IMZ, etc.).
Voting system: click the Up arrow to up-vote a post and the Down arrow to down-vote it. The voting system is not for agreeing or disagreeing with someone but for ensuring visibility (or lack thereof). If you're debating with someone and their post is what started the discussion, you'd logically up-vote it to ensure visibility to others if you wanted your debate to be seen. Down-votes are useful to apply to users behaving badly, inaccurate or irrelevant posts on a particular subreddit, and so on. I'm sure there's an intro for this out there but that's a quick idea for you.
Lastly, here's a useful introductory video to using Reddit, which covers more than the above and also gives you visual instruction, which may be easier to digest for some:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4oljFEvsiICheers
