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Can you promote on r/ChicagoSuburbs?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
Bots or automated accounts not allowed Its rules remove posts or comments from bots or automated accounts. Post and reply yourself here. Other communities' AI rules.
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News, events and discussions from the suburbs of Chicago, including Cook, Lake, DuPage, Grundy, McHenry, Will, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Kankakee, Bureau, LaSalle, and Putnam counties in Illinois. Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, and LaPorte Counties in Indiana. Kenosha County in Wisconsin.
What its rules say about promotion
No Buying/Selling/or other "classifieds" style posts.
This includes job postings, housing posts, animals for adoption/for sale. This is not a garage sale subreddit. There are local buy/sell groups you can do this at.
No surveys, advertising, crowdfunding, promotion of businesses, or for-profit events.
No surveys, advertising, petitions, change.org petitions, crowdfunding, or promotion of businesses, or for-profit events. This includes promotion for dental cleaning exams. If you are promoting a non-profit (charity) event in the suburbs please include the date, city, and cost in the title and only post once about it.
What its rules say about AI and bots
No bots
Do not use a bot in this subreddit. Bots will be banned upon detection.
All 10 rules of r/ChicagoSuburbs
- Users must observe Reddiquette at all times.
Users must observe Reddiquette at all times. Disrespectful, bullying or otherwise illegal or offensive language will be removed. Attacking other users based on their personal beliefs is not allowed and we have a zero tolerance policy. Moderators reserve the right to temporarily or permanently ban users from the subreddit. - Any post must be related in some way to a community or person/people from Chicagoland
Any post (self-post or link) must be related in some way to a community or person/people from the following counties: Bureau, Cook, Dekalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, McHenry, Putnam, and Will in Illinois; Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, or Porter in Indiana; and Kenosha County in Wisconsin. If an event or story involving a suburbanite occurs outside of the suburbs, it may still be posted. - No Buying/Selling/or other "classifieds" style posts.
This includes job postings, housing posts, animals for adoption/for sale. This is not a garage sale subreddit. There are local buy/sell groups you can do this at. - No surveys, advertising, crowdfunding, promotion of businesses, or for-profit events.
No surveys, advertising, petitions, change.org petitions, crowdfunding, or promotion of businesses, or for-profit events. This includes promotion for dental cleaning exams. If you are promoting a non-profit (charity) event in the suburbs please include the date, city, and cost in the title and only post once about it. - Threatening Violence.
We do not tolerate threats or wishes of violence on anyone. - No Covid anti-mask/anti-vaccine/anti-science/ disinformation posts.
No Covid anti-mask/anti-vaccine/anti-science/ disinformation posts. - Report offensive, illegal or irrelevant material to the subreddit
If someone posts something that is offensive, illegal or irrelevant to the subreddit, please report it by clicking on the "Report" link at the bottom of the post in question. Do not engage. - No bots
Do not use a bot in this subreddit. Bots will be banned upon detection. - No R4R. There are other subreddits for making friends.
No R4R. There are other subreddits for making friends. - Banned Content
Links to X (Twitter), Facebook, Threads, and Instagram are not allowed.
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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