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Can you promote on r/Watches?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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What its rules say about promotion
Promotional Content
**Promotional content is not allowed.** This includes, but not limited to your own shops, sales, deals, social media, crowdfunding, or Amazon referral links. - Sales/WTB/Trades should go to /r/WatchExchange. - Sale/deal/coupons should go to /r/FrugalWrist. - Crowdfunding / Microbrand promotion should go on /r/MicrobrandWatches. While blogs are generally allowed, refrain from posting only links to your blog. Overtly promotional posts may be removed and user's banned at the mod's discretion.
All 13 rules of r/Watches
- No Counterfeits or Replicas
**Absolutely no posting of counterfeit/replica watches or websites.** Posts or comments will be removed and run a high risk of a ban. * Discussion about replicas, counterfeits, and knock-offs are allowed only if they are educational in nature and provide a benefit to the community. * Asking for or linking to websites that advocate reps will not be tolerated. * Watches infringing on registered trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, or otherwise bearing the name of another brand are not permitted. - Fake Checks only on Fridays
Requests for legit checks/fake checks/etc will only be allowed on Fridays in the stickied mega thread. - Uncivil Discussion
**Spirited discussion is encouraged, but insulting another person (even in retaliation) is not acceptable.**. Please report such instances to the mods. * Criticism *towards a watch* are acceptable. Negative comments *towards another person*, are not. This includes comments about a person's wealth or physical appearance. * You are entitled to your opinion, but don't be judgmental, snide, or unpleasant because of it. * Politically provocative posts/comments will be removed - NSFW Post or Comment
**Posts must be SFW and SFL.** - Promotional Content
**Promotional content is not allowed.** This includes, but not limited to your own shops, sales, deals, social media, crowdfunding, or Amazon referral links. - Sales/WTB/Trades should go to /r/WatchExchange. - Sale/deal/coupons should go to /r/FrugalWrist. - Crowdfunding / Microbrand promotion should go on /r/MicrobrandWatches. While blogs are generally allowed, refrain from posting only links to your blog. Overtly promotional posts may be removed and user's banned at the mod's discretion. - Memes, circlejerk posts and comics
Memes, circle jerk posts and comic belong in /r/watchmemes or /r/watchescirclejerk. - Simple Questions, FAQs, and Recommendations
Questions that can be answered with a single comment should be posted in the stickied Semi-Weekly Inquirer thread. Recommendation requests for a watch, strap, or services should also go in this thread. However, you are still welcome to create a separate post should you feel like you would want further discussion with your recommendation request. - 250 characters or Wrist Check
Stand-alone Image Posts must consist of: - A description **about the watch** consisting of 250 or more characters (*characters* not words - so about a tweets worth). If you just want to show off your current watch then there is a daily Wrist Check thread designed for such submissions. Posts tagged 'Identification' or 'Identify' do not require a 250 character comment. However, the more information you provide us, the better we are able to help you identify the watch in question. - Stolen content/unattributed content
Using a photograph that is not yours in order to pretend that you own a watch is a form of trolling and therefore not permitted on this sub. - Driving Photos
* No posting photos you've taken while you're driving. * Obvious car-in-motion photos will be removed. * If it is suspected the car is being driven at the time will likely also be removed. * But just posing with the watch by the steering wheel, or parked up on the street / carpark / driveway are still OK to post. - Posting Rules Violation
Rules made at the request of the community: * All post titles must contain [brackets] at the beginning. * Image and video posts must provide additional information in a comment of 500+ characters. Posts tagged [Identify] or [Identification] do not require a 500 character comment. [See here for the complete explanation of details](https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/wiki/rules#wiki_posting_rules). (Reddit only allows us to put 500 characters here.) - No AI generated content
No content created by AI image generators or text bots is allowed. - No politician's watches
If it's a pic or a question about a politician wearing a watch then we no longer allow these. They just descend into political commentary and arguments. And the answer is generally googleable anyway.
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