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Can you promote on r/Poetry?
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 sharing published poetry. For sharing original content, please visit r/OCPoetry.
What its rules say about promotion
Tag your Title
Put one [TAG] in your post title. Available tags are: * [POEM] - for sharing published poetry (not one's original work) * [ARTICLE] - for sharing an article about poetry or a poet * [OPINION] - for discussion * [RESOURCE] - for rhyming dictionaries, apps, etc. * [HELP] - for homework help or identifying a poem * [PROMO] - for promoting a project/book * [OPPORTUNITY] - publishing or writing opportunities * [META] - for discussing the subreddit (subject to mod approval)
Be detailed
To sell something, use a self post and offer a sample poem. To promote something, like publications, be detailed about your product.
No Self-Promotion Beyond the [PROMO] Tag
Whilst we do allow people to occasionally promote things with [PROMO] tag, that is where self promotion should end. The follow are strictly prohibited outside of the rare use of the [PROMO] tag: 1. Promoting one's website in comments 2. Promoting one's book/writing in comments 3. Promoting one's services 4. Any other types of promotion
All 13 rules of r/Poetry
- No Original Content
Discuss the general world of poetry. Don't post original content. Share your original work on other subreddits such as /r/OCPoetry, /r/OCPoetryFree, /r/Poem, /r/Poems, /r/PoetryWritingClub, or /r/justpoetry. - Tag your Title
Put one [TAG] in your post title. Available tags are: * [POEM] - for sharing published poetry (not one's original work) * [ARTICLE] - for sharing an article about poetry or a poet * [OPINION] - for discussion * [RESOURCE] - for rhyming dictionaries, apps, etc. * [HELP] - for homework help or identifying a poem * [PROMO] - for promoting a project/book * [OPPORTUNITY] - publishing or writing opportunities * [META] - for discussing the subreddit (subject to mod approval) - Do your homework
To ask for homework help, please explicitly state that you are asking for it, and show how far one has gotten. - Be detailed
To sell something, use a self post and offer a sample poem. To promote something, like publications, be detailed about your product. - Don't use URL shorteners
Do not use a URL shortener. - Hall of Fame
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/wiki/halloffame/) is a list of famous poems that get reposted quite a lot. We've collected them and put them in a museum exhibit of sorts as a way of freeing up space on the subreddit for a larger variety of poetry. Please do not post work featured in our Hall of Fame. - Toxic behavior
This is a place to enjoy and discuss poetry, not a place to pick fights. Don't be an ass. - Unpublished work
This sub is for published poetry; that is: poems that have been published in a journal or literary magazine. Self-publishing on social media does not count; neither does self-publishing one's own book. - Post title: [TAG] Title - Author
Post title: [TAG] Title - Author. If the poem was translated, credit the translator too. - Don’t Bash People For Disliking Poetry
This is a place where people post others' poetry and we allow people to dislike it. This is not an echo chamber of only compliments. Now, we don’t allow extreme rudeness to other commenters, but thinking a poem is bad is totally acceptable. - Controversial Poems May Be Locked
If a poem has a controversial subject we won’t remove it. However, we may lock the comments, especially if the poem is causing a firestorm in the comments. Comments will be cleared, but the poem will remain live on the subreddit. - No Self-Promotion Beyond the [PROMO] Tag
Whilst we do allow people to occasionally promote things with [PROMO] tag, that is where self promotion should end. The follow are strictly prohibited outside of the rare use of the [PROMO] tag: 1. Promoting one's website in comments 2. Promoting one's book/writing in comments 3. Promoting one's services 4. Any other types of promotion - Reposts
Please do not repost poems that have been submitted to the community too recently. Reposting from the top twenty-five posts of all time is strictly prohibited.
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