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Can you promote on r/BetterOffline?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
AI-generated content not allowed Its rules remove some or all AI-generated posts, comments or media. Write it yourself here, or pick another community. Other communities' AI rules.
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Subreddit for Ed Zitron's Better Offline podcast from Cool Zone Media and iHeartRadio Linktr.ee/betteroffline
What its rules say about promotion
No self promotion
This is a Subreddit about Better Offline. Please do not make posts about your own stuff, soliciting research for your own stuff, etc. If you need an exception please reach out to me.
What its rules say about AI and bots
No AI Slop
Don't post AI slop! This includes AI-generated content, and especially the text output from AI models. I don't care if it proves that AI is bad. Stop posting it.
No Brigading/Don't Crosspost from Pro-AI subreddits
This sub is not for brigading those we disagree with. If you want to bring attention to some argument or trend Pro-AI people are discussing please screenshot and blank out the subreddit name.
All 15 rules of r/BetterOffline
- Be Civil to Hosts + Guests
Critiques of the hosts and guests opinions are welcome as. Personal attack are not. When in doubt, please use the principle of charity. - Relevance
Please keep posts on topic. People, events, etc. discussed on the podcast are welcome. As is discussion on topics related to the podcast. Currently that includes "the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build". - No threats, encouragement or glorification of violence.
Anything that violates Reddit's TOS is obviously a no go. But please use common sense as well. - No bigotry.
Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Ableism will not be tolerated. - No self promotion
This is a Subreddit about Better Offline. Please do not make posts about your own stuff, soliciting research for your own stuff, etc. If you need an exception please reach out to me. - Don't Post Something That Already Got Posted
Please make sure somebody hasn't already posted the article you're sharing - No AI Slop
Don't post AI slop! This includes AI-generated content, and especially the text output from AI models. I don't care if it proves that AI is bad. Stop posting it. - Don’t Be An Asshole
This is a seemingly-arbitrary rule, but we’ve had a good amount of people come in here with the intent to stir up trouble and be huge assholes. By all means come in and have reasonable conversations, but I will boot your ass into the Phantom Zone without a second thought. If you disagree, by all means take it up with my boss (me). - Don't post old stuff like it's news
Pretty simple! Maybe it's the "Sam Altman says we'll just ask the AI to tell us how to get profitable," or an article from two years ago, but either way, keep it up to date unless there's a good reason (an unseen article or study for example) - Responding "paywalled" on a paywalled article
Yeah we get it there's a paywall we get it, congrats on your observations. 24 hour ban. - No Low Effort, Meme or Web Comic Posts
If you’re going to make a post that is just a question in a title, your post is gone. If you’re going to post a crappy meme and say “AI be like this” that post is also gone. If you're posting a screenshot from Twitter or Bluesky with little commentary or effort, that post is gone. If you're going to repost a web comic about something, it's also gone. A single sentence or a couple To be clear sharing a video or article is fine. - No Brigading/Don't Crosspost from Pro-AI subreddits
This sub is not for brigading those we disagree with. If you want to bring attention to some argument or trend Pro-AI people are discussing please screenshot and blank out the subreddit name. - Don’t complain that a video is a video
“Too audio visual didn’t watch”? I’m banning you for 24 hours - No Karma Farming Or Prompt Posts
If you are coming here to post something EPIC and COOL that's just a single screenshot or a crosspost and you haven't been posting here regularly, that's a permanent ban. This isn't a place for you to earn points. The same goes for anyone who does prompt posts "do you think that" or asking "provocative" questions - these are gone, and you get a month off the Subreddit. - Do Not Correct Issues, Typos Or Grammar In Newsletters
I do not want to hear about this. All hall monitors will get put in a 24 hour timeout.
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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