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Can you promote on r/chessbeginners?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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A place for new chess players to hang out, ask questions, discover tactics, get advice from others and learn more about the game: This is the r/chessbeginners subreddit.
What its rules say about promotion
Do not post self-promotion materials or adverts.
Self-promotion posts include but are not limited to: advertising a chess website you made, advertising YouTube channels, offering chess tutorial services, selling books, linking to advertising sites, etc. If found, these will be automatically removed. Accounts that exist primarily for the purposes of self promotion will be permanently banned.
What its rules say about AI and bots
Use caution when discussing AI in chess.
Popular LLM's are currently not effective chess trainers or analysts. Be mindful about the limitations of AI when discussing what a chatbot says about a position. Posting about a chess website/analysis tool you coded with AI is not permitted.
All 7 rules of r/chessbeginners
- Be nice and friendly.
This is the main over-arching rule in r/chessbeginners and should be self-explanatory. This means no flaming (engage in an online argument usually involving unfounded personal attacks), harassing (make hostile or prejudicial remarks), trolling (insulting message on the internet in order to annoy someone), inciting (encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant), gaslighting (make someone question their reality), and the like. Posts violating this rule **will be removed**. - Do not discriminate.
Abusive and discriminating behavior is not allowed in r/chessbeginners - this includes any posts targeting hate, bigotry, abuse, discrimination, and intimidation (including blackmailing and doxxing) at another user. These kinds of posts will be removed. - Do not post self-promotion materials or adverts.
Self-promotion posts include but are not limited to: advertising a chess website you made, advertising YouTube channels, offering chess tutorial services, selling books, linking to advertising sites, etc. If found, these will be automatically removed. Accounts that exist primarily for the purposes of self promotion will be permanently banned. - Do not post chess-unrelated / NSFW / offensive / meme / spam materials.
Chess-unrelated / NSFW / offensive / meme / spam materials are not allowed. This includes, but are not limited to: posting meme one-liners in comments, referencing r/anarchychess, referencing "en passant", google "x", "pipi", among other chess memes / overposting and spamming posts or links / illegal content / chess-unrelated posts, including chess variants, and the like. - Use caution when discussing AI in chess.
Popular LLM's are currently not effective chess trainers or analysts. Be mindful about the limitations of AI when discussing what a chatbot says about a position. Posting about a chess website/analysis tool you coded with AI is not permitted. - Read the Wiki before posting / Post Quick Questions in Correct Thread.
Quick questions like: - "Why is this a brilliant move?" - "Why is this a blunder?" ... should be posted in our [No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD](https://www.reddit.com/r/chessbeginners/comments/1rgcn41/no_stupid_questions_megathread_12/). Any quick questions similar to above posted in the main feed **will be removed** for the purposes of sorting. Also, any questions already answered in our [FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/chessbeginners/wiki/faqs/ ) **will be deleted**. Thank you. - Use Spoilers when posting solutions.
When posting solutions to tactics problems and puzzles, type them in spoilers, like this: `>!1. e4 e5 2. Ke2??!<` Which would appear like this: >!1. e4 e5 2. Ke2??!<
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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