Reddit is a popular social media content aggregator platform with hundreds of millions of users. Reddit is popular for various reasons, and the platform has a couple of unique kinks that keep its loyal users. One of such kinks is the Reddit flair. The flair has a diversified usage and can be used to increase the Reddit experience for users. This article will guide you on correctly adding and leveraging flairs for your posts and username on the platform.
Before we delve into how to use flairs, what are flairs anyways? A flair is a ‘tag’ that users can add to the content they post on Reddit, specifically within a subreddit. Flairs help users understand the category a particular post belongs to, helping them filter certain kinds of posts based on their preferences.
Mods and users can also leverage Flairs to tag specific usernames. Typically, the mod or user forcefully adds or edits adds the tag. The former commonly happens when the community bans or flags such a Redditor as a scam.
The flair concept is an excellent way to include extra context in your post. If you are a Reddit administrator, regular poster, or subreddit moderator, you can use flairs to distinguish yourself from other Redditors with user flair beside your username.
How to add flairs
Flairs are essential, and there are several ways to use them, depending on your device, the Reddit platform you use, and the flair type you want.
Desktop website
Old design
The first step on the old Reddit desktop website is to click on “submit text” to post text-based content. The location of the “submit text” box varies, but you will typically find it on the left-side rail of the community’s homepage. The variation is regarding how far down you may have to scroll to see it.
After selecting it, fill the title and text box with the relevant information before scrolling down to find the flair option. The option is right below a “choose a flair” heading. Clicking on it will display several flair options. Simply click on the flair you prefer and click “Submit” to post.
New design
Tagging your post with flairs is easy on the Reddit desktop website. Once you have found the community you want to post in, click “create post” at the left-side railing on the subreddit’s homepage.
Select an appropriate title, text, or image for what you intend to post in the Create Post window. After this, you can add the flair by clicking on the Flair menu and then choosing one of the flairs. If the flair options are greyed out, you may be unable to add the flair yourself without a moderator. However, the post flair may appear in some cases after you create the post.
Some communities commonly allow users to change specific flair text. As such, if the relevant subreddit enables this feature, you can change it through the Edit Flair Box function just under your selected flair by editing the text in it. After selecting your preferred flair, click “apply” to include it in your post.
Mobile app
On the mobile app, adding flairs is also straightforward. After selecting the subreddit to which you want to post the content, click on the + sign at the bottom of the screen to add a post.
This will pull up a window asking you to select what type of content you intend to post. Not all types of content are permitted in different communities, and the window will categorize the types accordingly. After selecting the medium you prefer, fill the relevant boxes with the title and content you intend to post.
You click next after filling in the necessary content, and the page you enter is the last before you post the content. Here, you will see the option for flairs if your community allows them.
Click on the “add flair” text, which displays the available flairs you can use to personalize your post. Select the flair you prefer and click on apply. After applying it, you may post your content.
Adding flairs on usernames
While using flairs to categorize your posts is a common use for flairs, it is also possible to add flairs to usernames. Username flairs, like post flairs, may be present or not, depending on the community.
While some communities may restrict any variation of flairs besides usernames, others typically only allow moderators to add flairs. Because of this, you may need to go over the community’s rules to be sure you can add flairs.
If your relevant community’s moderator restricts user flairs and you want to message them, You can look for the moderators by checking the right-side panel for the Moderators section. Click on the “Message the mods” option to send a request.
However, if your community permits individual user flairs, you add it by looking through the “About Community” area on the right-side rail. Here, you click “Edit”, beside the “User Flair Preview” text. The edit button on the new desktop site is represented as a pen icon. If you cannot find it, click the “Community Options” menu.
In the “Select Flair” menu, select your preferred user flair from the list. Ensure that you select the “Show my user flair on this community” checkbox before you click “Apply” to save the option.
The process is essentially the same on a mobile app. Using an iOS app as an example, you can add username flair by first going to the relevant community’s homepage. Here, click on the three-dot icon at the top right corner of your screen.
This would pop up a window at the bottom of your screen. Select “Change user flair” to begin the process on this window.
Similar to the desktop website, this would bring up a list of available flairs you can choose from. Likewise, check the “Show my user flair on this community” box after selecting your flair before applying it.
Selecting a flair that correctly categorizes your post is vital when considering flairs to apply, either on your post or your username. Using flairs and a social listening tool like Notifier can help you generate traffic around a post. A flair that signifies a conversation can help draw more users to the post. Add this to guided posts, and you can direct the conversation towards a particular keyword that your social listening tool can subsequently pick up.