Reddit rules index · read 2026-10-06
Can you promote on r/socialwork?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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This community is for social workers and those interested in joining the social work field! It is a place to ask for advice, share your frustrations, receive support, and anything else related to the social work sector.
What its rules say about promotion
No Blog Posts or Self-Promotion
No blog posts or self-promotional posts. This includes links to your practices/businesses, YouTube pages, etsy stores, etc. If you feel your content is relevant to sub users, please send modmail in regards to doing an AMA.
All 13 rules of r/socialwork
- Seeking Professional Advice / Not a Social Worker
This subreddit is not intended for professional advice including: medical, legal, mental health and financial advice. All client questions will be removed. This is place for professional feedback and development. This subreddit is intended for social work professionals and students to serve as a place to discuss the field itself. Posters answering obvious posts asking for professional advice, will receive a warning for their first offense and a temporary 5 day ban for subsequent offenses. - Education and Early Career Post
All early career questions from students or new social workers should go into the appropriate weekly thread. This includes questions about: - Opinions or reviews about schools, colleges, or universities or their social work programs. - Anything related to admissions or applications. - Placements and internships. - How to become a social worker. - Normal or average salaries, workloads, or caseloads. - Expectations in first post-grad job. - No Blog Posts or Self-Promotion
No blog posts or self-promotional posts. This includes links to your practices/businesses, YouTube pages, etsy stores, etc. If you feel your content is relevant to sub users, please send modmail in regards to doing an AMA. - No Licensure Related Questions
Questions related to licensure will be removed and referred to our weekly license question thread. Obtaining your license is something that can vary by location. We do not want anyone to be given potentially wrong advice when it comes to their career and recommend if in doubt to contact your licensing board, coworkers, or fellow students. Posts about passing the exam and including any guides or tips, are allowed. - Salary Posts in Megathread
Posts asking about salary will be removed. All salary posts will be redirected to our Salary megathread (linked in the sidebar). - No Asking/Looking for Jobs
No asking/looking for jobs, job postings, job availability, the job market in certain cities, macro/micro work or resume help. There are many other subs that are dedicated to these topics, please consult with them for these questions. We do allow city/state-specific job market questions in our stickied thread. - No Homework Help
No asking for help with your homework assignments, evaluations, or interviewing a social worker. Homework in all of its stages is meant to help develop you as a professional. If you are feeling stuck, please consult with either your professor, supervisor, or classmates for assistance. They will be much more familiar with the criteria of the assignment than us. - No Solicitation Posts
No solicitation posts. This means no posts asking for financial assistance, no links to GoFundMe campaigns, no posts asking for or propositioning an exchange of money. - Confidentiality
We want this subreddit to be a place for social workers to be able to get feedback from peers, but we also must be mindful that posts are protecting the identity of clients and other reddit users. Posts may be removed temporarily at the discretion of the moderators if there are confidentiality concerns, and the poster will be given the option to edit their post. Doxing of users, including sharing publicly available or identifying information, will result in a permanent ban. - No crossposting
Please do not crosspost out of this subreddit. Please see our reasoning [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialwork/comments/rhw5l8/update_to_rules_no_crossposting/) - Be Excellent to Each Other
Be Excellent to each other. Hostility, hatred, trolling, and persistent disrespect will not be tolerated. Users who are unable to engage in conversation- even contentious conversation- with kindness and mutual respect will have their posts/comments removed. Users violating this rule will first receive a warning, secondly an additional warning with a 7 day ban, third incident or a pattern of disrespect will result in a permanent ban. - User Flair/Location is Optional, but Highly Recommended
User Flair/Location is now optional, but highly recommended. While this sub's users skew heavily North American, we have a wide variety of global users. Some questions are location specific or not universally applicable, so we ask that users please include a location tag either in their post or in their user flair to help others navigate the sub and offer applicable feedback. - No Reposting Removed Threads
Reposting a thread removed by Automod or the Mod Team is an automatic 3 day ban. Please reach out by Modmail for post review and approval.
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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