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Can you promote on r/NYTConnections?
Only in a dedicated thread Its rules send self-promotion to a dedicated thread, such as a weekly or pinned one. Promotion outside it is removed.
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Welcome to r/NYTConnections, for fans of The New York Times’ game, Connections! Be sure to familiarize yourself with our rules before posting or commenting. Not affiliated with The New York Times.
What its rules say about promotion
Self promotion
Posting Connections boards you have created is acceptable and encouraged! But please no promotion of materials that are tenuously related to Connections. Things such as articles, podcasts, or videos DISCUSSING Connections as a game are allowed, but a video of you solving the daily puzzle will not be allowed.
All 8 rules of r/NYTConnections
- Be Nice.
Basic Rediquette. You all know. Don’t be a jerk. No discrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender, religion, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality will be tolerated. - Pinned threads
Use the pinned threads for discussing the official NYT puzzles. For more information about this rule, please refer to our [wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/wiki/rules/). - Spoilers
Spoilers for the daily game, including the Sports version, ARE allowed in the daily threads posted by the bot, but a post about a daily NYT board is subject to removal if there are spoilers in the title. Comments under any post are subject to warning/removal if they are not properly marked as spoilers. Users have a reasonable expectation to find spoilers when going into the daily threads, but not when opening up a post made by a user. - Self promotion
Posting Connections boards you have created is acceptable and encouraged! But please no promotion of materials that are tenuously related to Connections. Things such as articles, podcasts, or videos DISCUSSING Connections as a game are allowed, but a video of you solving the daily puzzle will not be allowed. - No politics
We are a subreddit dedicated to a fun little game created by the New York Times. Our subreddit has a STRICT no politics rule. Violators of this rule may be banned for multiple offenses at moderators’ discretion. - "Help" Flair Post Title
When using the “Help!” flair, you must indicate in the title whether you requesting help on a custom board not originally released by the New York Times, or if you are asking for help on an official NYT board. If it is an official game board that you are playing from an archive, you must indicate which day it was originally published by the New York Times. For more information about this rule, please refer to our [wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/wiki/rules/). - Individual posts about the current NYT board.
At 12 pm EST of any given day, the previous day’s official game board may be posted and discussed with or without a spoiler tag. For more information about this rule, please refer to our [wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/wiki/rules/). - No subreddit drama
Please do not bring any drama or conflicts from any other subreddits to this sub, and please do not bring any drama or conflicts from this sub to any other subs. Additionally, please do not start or contribute to any drama or conflicts within this sub. For more information about this rule, please refer to our [wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/wiki/rules/).
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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