Reddit rules index · read 2026-10-05
Can you promote on r/developers?
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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What its rules say about promotion
No self-promotion
r/developers is not a place to advertise. Do not promote your own product, app, startup, blog, course, video channel, newsletter, or services, including "soft" promotion dressed up as a question, showcase, or success story.
What its rules say about AI and bots
No spam or engagement farming
No bots, repetitive or duplicate posting, karma or engagement farming, or flooding the sub with similar content. One post per topic. Accounts that exist mainly to spam are banned without warning.
No AI-generated content passed off as your own
This sub is for real human discussion and experience. Do not post AI-generated articles, answers, or code dumps as if they were your own work.
All 12 rules of r/developers
- Be respectful and professional
Treat everyone like a colleague on your team. No harassment, personal attacks, name-calling, discrimination, or bad-faith arguments. Go after the code or the idea, never the person. - Stay on topic
Content must be about software development, engineering and the developer profession. General tech support, consumer hardware questions, off-topic rants and unrelated content will be removed. - No spam or engagement farming
No bots, repetitive or duplicate posting, karma or engagement farming, or flooding the sub with similar content. One post per topic. Accounts that exist mainly to spam are banned without warning. - No self-promotion
r/developers is not a place to advertise. Do not promote your own product, app, startup, blog, course, video channel, newsletter, or services, including "soft" promotion dressed up as a question, showcase, or success story. - No external links
Posts must be text, and links to sites outside Reddit are not allowed in posts or comments. Share your code, errors, and context directly instead of linking out. - No solicitation or "DM me"
Do not ask others to DM or PM you and do not tell people to "DM me" for help, code, work or anything else. Keep discussion in the open where the whole community benefits. - Put in effort, and use a clear title
Low-effort posts will be removed: no one-line questions with no context, no "do my homework," no vague "how do I code this," and no title-only posts. Show what you have tried, include the specifics, and use a clear, descriptive title. - Search first, and use the megathreads
Check whether your question has already been answered before posting. Common, repeated, or beginner questions, and anything that belongs in a pinned megathread (help, careers, etc.), will be redirected there. - No job, hiring, or "for hire" posts
No job listings, recruiting, "who's hiring," or "looking for work" posts. General career discussion is welcome; classified-style job and recruitment posts are not. - No surveys, research, or data collection without approval
Surveys, user studies, "try my tool for my thesis," and similar data-collection requests require prior mod approval. Posted without it, they will be removed. - No AI-generated content passed off as your own
This sub is for real human discussion and experience. Do not post AI-generated articles, answers, or code dumps as if they were your own work. - No illegal content, and follow Reddit's rules
No piracy, cracked software, license bypasses, or anything illegal. All activity must follow Reddit's Content Policy. Ban evasion, vote manipulation, and doxxing lead to an immediate ban and a report to the admins.
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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