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# Heading
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Heading (very large)
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## Heading
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### Heading
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#### Heading
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*italics*
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italics
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**bold**
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bold
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***bold italic***
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super^script
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[reddit!](http://reddit.com)
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(tab or 4 spaces)preformatted text
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*escape the formatting syntax*
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> A fine quote
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>!A Spoiler!<
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(Text is hidden until clicked.)
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Don't spam.
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NOT OK: Submitting only links to your blog or personal website.
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OK: Submitting links from a variety of sites and sources.
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OK: Submitting links from your own site, talking with redditors in the comments, and also submitting cool stuff from other sites.
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NOT OK: Posting the same comment repeatedly in multiple subreddits.
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Don't ask for votes or engage in vote manipulation.
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NOT OK: Buying votes or using services to vote.
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OK: Sharing reddit links with your friends.
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NOT OK: Sharing links with your friends or coworkers and asking them to vote.
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NOT OK: Creating submissions such as "For every upvote I will ..." or "... please upvote this!", regardless of the cause.
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Don't post personal information.
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NOT OK: Posting a link to your friend's facebook profile.
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OK: Posting your senator's publicly available contact information
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NOT OK: Posting the full name, employer, or other real-life details of another redditor
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OK: Posting a link to a public page maintained by a celebrity.
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No child pornography or sexually suggestive content featuring minors.
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Don't break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of the site.
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NOT OK: Creating programs that request information more than once every 2 seconds or violate any of our other API rules.
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AWESOME: Responsibly reporting security issues to us.
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Do adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
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Do when talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?"
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Do read the reddiquette. Read it again every once in a while.
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Do moderate based on quality, not opinion.
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Do use proper grammar and spelling.
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Do vote.
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Do consider posting constructive criticism / an explanation when you downvote something.
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Do report any spam you find.
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Do browse the new submissions page and vote on it.
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Do actually read an article before you vote on it.
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Do state your reason for any editing of posts.
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Do use an "Innocent until proven guilty" mentality.
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Do Read the rules of a community before making a submission.
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Do keep your submission titles factual and opinion free.
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Do look for the original source of content, and submit that.
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Do post to the most appropriate community possible.
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Do search for duplicates before posting.
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Do link to the direct version of a media file when the page it was found on doesn't add any value.
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Do link to canonical and persistent URLs where possible, not temporary pages that might disappear.
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Do feel free to post links to your own content, within reason.
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Do posts containing explicit material such as nudity, horrible injury etc, add NSFW.
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Do read over your submission for mistakes before submitting.
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Don't engage in illegal activity.
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Don't post someone's personal information.
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Don't repost deleted/removed information.
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Don't be (intentionally) rude at all.
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Don't follow those who are rabble rousing against another redditor without first investigating both sides of the issue that's being presented.
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Don't ask people to Troll others on reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites.
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Don't conduct personal attacks on other commenters.
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Don't start a flame war.
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Don't insult others.
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Don't troll.
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Don't take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.
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Don't downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it.
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Don't mass downvote someone else's posts.
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Don't moderate a story based on your opinion of its source.
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Don't upvote or downvote based just on the person that posted it.
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Don't report posts just because you do not like them.
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Don't hint at asking for votes.
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Don't conduct polls using the title of your submission and/or votes.
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Don't send out IMs, tweets, or any other message asking people to vote for your submission.
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Don't ask for upvotes in exchange for gifts or prizes.
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Don't create mass downvote or upvote campaigns.
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Don't use the word "BREAKING" or other time sensitive words in your submissions.
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Don't post hoaxes.
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Don't flood reddit with a lot of stories in a short span of time.
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Don't write titles in ALL CAPS.
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Don't editorialize or sensationalize your submission title.
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Don't linkjack stories: linking to stories via blog posts that add nothing extra.
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Don't use link shorteners to post your content.
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Don't make comments that lack content.
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Don't announce your vote.
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Don't complain about other users reposting/rehosting stories, images, videos, or any other content.
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Don't complain about the votes you do or do not receive.
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Don't complain about reposts. Just because you have seen it before doesn't mean everyone has.
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Don't complain about cross posts.
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Hi there, Really nice page ! I wrote a related article few weeks ago, you can check it out here http://www.redditsecrets.com/reddit-formatting-help Cheers !
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