Can you self-promote on r/rccars?

Allowed, with limits. Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out. Read 2026-10-11 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/rccars?

Allowed, with limits Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out.

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Subreddit devoted to RC Cars, Buggies, Truggies, Short Course Trucks, and everything in-between!

What its rules say about promotion

No buy / sell / trade posts
This subreddit is for conversation and showing off your rigs. For exchange of vehicles, please visit /r/RCClassifieds. This includes 3D printed parts. Repeat offenders will be banned. Temu links are banned site wide. Temu posts will get removed and the poster banned if it is shown they are spamming subs. Posting AlieExpress referral codes will get you temp banned too, permabanned if you have no other posts on the subreddit.

Advertisement / self promotion rules
As an open community, we welcome everyone to join us. However, to not let the sub get filled with advertisements, we ask that you also engage with the community. Therefore, we'd like to ask everyone to make at least 4 useful contributions for every self-promotion post they make.

All 5 rules of r/rccars

Off Topic
Anything posted to the subreddit should be focused around R/C cars. This includes RC Cars or a related topic (batteries, radios, electronics, support equipment, industry news, creating your own parts for RC Cars, etc). If it isn't related, it shouldn't be here. This includes politics, even if tangentially related to rc cars.
No spamming / trolling
Low effort posts which do not contribute to the subreddit as a whole are forbidden and will be removed. This includes posts which make unsolicited and/or controversial statements.
Be polite
This subreddit is an open and light-hearted place. As such, we ask that you remain polite throughout your stay here. Posts can be removed at the discretion of the moderators and if a thread devolves into ad hominem attacks, we will remove and/or lock threads and possibly ban posters.
No buy / sell / trade posts
This subreddit is for conversation and showing off your rigs. For exchange of vehicles, please visit /r/RCClassifieds. This includes 3D printed parts. Repeat offenders will be banned. Temu links are banned site wide. Temu posts will get removed and the poster banned if it is shown they are spamming subs. Posting AlieExpress referral codes will get you temp banned too, permabanned if you have no other posts on the subreddit.
Advertisement / self promotion rules
As an open community, we welcome everyone to join us. However, to not let the sub get filled with advertisements, we ask that you also engage with the community. Therefore, we'd like to ask everyone to make at least 4 useful contributions for every self-promotion post they make.

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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