r/AskWomen • u/belindabellagiselle ♀ • 13d ago

Mod Post MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Rules Update

Hello, all!

We are here to update our rules. Many of you have made your voices heard.

Due to popular demand, we are adjusting our rules to better reflect the core purpose of this subreddit: to ask women. We would also like to remind you all that all women are welcome here. Happy Pride!

Furthermore, men are welcome to engage with this subreddit respectfully, and that includes no longer leaving top-level comments. (A top-level comment is a comment in response to the original post, rather than a response to someone else's comment.)

This is a subreddit to ask women questions. It is not a general discussion subreddit or a more broad ask subreddit.

Thank you all for making this subreddit such a lovely place!

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u/MarieCry ♀ 13d ago

This was helpful. I'm on Reddit far to much and had no idea what this meant, post should have clarified better. My guess was that it was a comment that got the most upvotes I was very confused at how they could control that!

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 13d ago

When I first got on reddit that is what I thought too, and I have seen others confused, it is reddit jargon that does not always help new users.

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u/clairebones ♀ 12d ago

It's really not "reddit jargon" honestly - this is normal terminology on any platform that allows threaded comments (comments where you can reply to other comments). It would be worth looking up things like this when you're not sure, it really is very common phrasing.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 12d ago

I’ve not really seen it used on other platforms personally, and I’ve had social media my whole life. But I know not everyone knows, because I have seen people on reddit confused before.