Reddit rules index · read 2026-09-26
Can you promote on r/AskProgramming?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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Ask questions about programming.
What its rules say about promotion
No (self-)promotion
Please do not promote your own product or affiliate products. If you just recommend a tool in general as an answer that is fine though.
No commercial offers
All 10 rules of r/AskProgramming
- No (self-)promotion
Please do not promote your own product or affiliate products. If you just recommend a tool in general as an answer that is fine though. - No trolling, baiting, insults, etc.
Don't troll or flamebait, insult others, or act in bad faith. - Must be Programming related
- No Illegal/unethical activities
- No commercial offers
- No academic dishonesty
- Title and post quality
Guidelines on ["how do I ask a good question"](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) apply. Most importantly: * Titles should be concise but descriptive about the posts content. * If it is about a problem, provide both context and code. * Actually describe your problem. "Why does this code not do what I want" without actually specifying what you want is not a good description. - Code must be text and properly formatted
Do not post screenshots of your code. Put it as text on reddit (properly formatted), pastebin, hastebin, github gists, jsfiddle or similar. - No AI generated content
If we wanted to read some AIs output, we'd be on Chat-GPT. - ChatGPT Panic Question
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