What is a warm-up plan calculator?
A warm-up plan calculator turns an account's karma and age into a schedule: how many days of warm-up it needs and what to do on each of them. This one runs Rankhog's own warm-up rules, the same ones its product follows for every account it warms up, right in your browser. You see the whole plan, day by day, before you start.
How long should you warm up a Reddit account?
It depends on the karma the account already has. Rankhog's rule looks at two numbers, total karma against 50 and comment karma against 20, and takes the weaker of the two. An account at both bars gets 7 days, one most of the way there gets 14, one a third of the way gets 21, and a brand-new account gets 28.
How much karma do you need before posting?
There is no number for all of Reddit. Each subreddit sets its own, and many keep it hidden in AutoModerator. The rooms that publish one usually ask for some karma, an account of a minimum age, or both. Run the account analyzer to see which published gates an account clears today.
What a new Reddit account can and cannot do
A new account is slowed down on purpose. Reddit limits how often it can post or comment, and many subreddits filter it out until it has some history. Posting fast, dropping links or repeating the same text is what gets new accounts filtered, removed or banned.
What happens in each phase
The plan has four phases. Reading for an account younger than three days. First words: one or two comments a day in AskReddit. Building: two to four a day in friendly general subreddits. Settling in: three to five. An account moves up when its comments stay up, never just because days went by.
Why comments come before posts
Comments are the safest way to build trust. A good comment in a busy thread earns karma and shows moderators a real person, and it is far less likely to be removed than a post from a new account. Posts come later, once the account has history.
Warm-up vs karma farming
Karma farming chases numbers: reposts, low-effort posts in karma rooms, sometimes bought votes. Subreddits that check history see through it, and Reddit bans vote rings. A warm-up builds the same numbers through useful comments that stay up, which is what the gates are meant to see.
What breaks a warm-up
Links and product mentions too early, votes between your own accounts, the same text in many threads, and posting faster than the phase allows. A removed comment sends the account back to first words, so slow and steady beats fast and lost.
Should you warm up an old account?
Yes, if it has little karma. Age clears age gates, but karma gates and the account's recent history still count, and an account that wakes up after years of silence and starts posting looks odd. Put its numbers in above: the plan gets shorter when the karma is already there.