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Can you promote on r/AskIreland?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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What its rules say about promotion
No promotion, solicitation, fundraising, or petitions
You may not participate here solely to promote your work/business/craft. The buying or selling of any goods or services is not permitted. Ticket sales/trades should be directed to Toutless. Supermarket rewards or discount barcodes should be directed to Cardnado. Fundraising and petitions are not permitted.
No Lonely Hearts content
Posts or comments advertising for dates, relationships, or hookups are not allowed. This includes any content seeking romantic partners, meetups for dating, or similar. These posts risk attracting online predators and violate our safety standards. General relationship or dating advice questions are allowed, as long as they aren't personal ads.
Respect your neighbours.
Let's keep our community focused on positive and meaningful discussions. Posts or comments that aim to organise or promote interference in other communities, or that target redditors or moderators for harassment, aren't allowed and will be removed.
All 15 rules of r/AskIreland
- Be Sound!
Have some manners, and be respectful! Harassment, hate speech, threats of violence, and other behaviours which violate Reddit’s [content policy]( https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy) won’t be tolerated here. The list of banned words/actions is not exhaustive so mod discretion is used. - Search for it First
Any questions that can easily be answered by a quick Google search do not belong here. Similarly, we strongly encourage you to search this community and reddit before asking to see if your question has been asked recently. Duplicate questions submitted in a short period will be removed in favour of the original question. - Questions Must be Seeking an Answer
Posts submitted here must be aimed at the users of r/AskIreland, ensuring that they are transparent with no hidden agendas. Rants, musings, commentary, blog style entries and other similar submissions which do not ask a clear and concise question may be removed. Submissions that are deliberately vague, intentionally lacking in detail or do not contain relevant content in the post body may be removed. - Not All Questions are Welcome
While many weird and wonderful questions can be asked here, there are some topics that are not entirely suited to this subreddit, and may be more suitable posts for elsewhere. These include (but are not limited to) global politics, personal medical advice, personal grievances and ongoing legal matters. Moderators will exercise discretion around questions which do not fit the lore of the sub. - No Loaded Questions.
While many of the questions asked here do spark healthy debates, there can be some questions which have an obvious agenda & aim for discussion on contentious issues which may not be classified as news/current affairs. When these are identified they will be removed. - No Misery
Lookit, we all love to complain - but there's a limit. r/ireland is infamous as a den of relentless negativity and we're not allowing it here. Accounts that are found to be trolling, consistently seeking drama, mocking or belittling other users will be banned from the sub. - No questions about the news or current affairs
This community is not a venue for discussing news, current affairs, or politics under the guise of asking a question about it. Questions around these topics are likely better suited to the likes of r/ireland or r/irishpolitics - No doxxing
Social media posts, links, pages, handles etc. of private individuals may not be shared. - No promotion, solicitation, fundraising, or petitions
You may not participate here solely to promote your work/business/craft. The buying or selling of any goods or services is not permitted. Ticket sales/trades should be directed to Toutless. Supermarket rewards or discount barcodes should be directed to Cardnado. Fundraising and petitions are not permitted. - No Market Research or Non-Academic surveys
Academic surveys will be approved on a case by case basis. Market research or market surveys will be removed. - No Lonely Hearts content
Posts or comments advertising for dates, relationships, or hookups are not allowed. This includes any content seeking romantic partners, meetups for dating, or similar. These posts risk attracting online predators and violate our safety standards. General relationship or dating advice questions are allowed, as long as they aren't personal ads. - No question related to the immigration process, or to international students
Questions around these topics are too specific and often require specialised answers that cannot effectively be done here on AskIreland. They should instead be taken to more specialised communities: - Questions related to the immigration process should be directed to r/MoveToIreland. - Questions regarding visas and immigration stamps should go to r/LegalAdviceIreland; but also seek professional advice. - Questions related to international students should be directed to r/StudyInIreland. - Respect your neighbours.
Let's keep our community focused on positive and meaningful discussions. Posts or comments that aim to organise or promote interference in other communities, or that target redditors or moderators for harassment, aren't allowed and will be removed. - If in Doubt, Ask!
If you have any queries around a message you may have received from the mod team, please get in touch through [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FAskIreland) and we can clarify further if needed. Do not create a post to query a removal or other mod decision, from any subreddit including this one. We only ask you to be sound and we will return the courtesy! If you see anything that you feel doesn't belong on the sub or breaks a rule, please use the "report" function. - Respect the moderators
When it comes to enforcing the rules, leading to potential post removals or bans, mods have the final say when it comes to defining the meanings of terms in these rules, as well as how and when they're applied. Removals and bans can and will take into account the rule that was broken, how it was broken, and any past offenses.
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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