Self-promotion rules · r/socialmedia · read 15 Oct 2026
Does r/socialmedia allow self-promotion?
Short answer: posting about your product is with conditions, and commenting in threads is open.
Posting about your product
With conditions
r/socialmedia's own rules allow promotion only under the conditions quoted below.
From the room's own rules
Commenting in threads
Open
The room does not restrict who can comment, so answering a question in a thread is open to you.
From the room's own comment setting
What r/socialmedia's own rules say
Every line below is the room's own sentence, word for word, including its spelling. We pick the sentences about promotion, links and who may post; we never shorten one.
While linking to external articles is valuable, please include your own commentary, context, or analysis to foster meaningful discussion within our community.
Rule: Enhance link shares with commentary We don’t know why your channel was removed.
Rule: This is not a help desk While we appreciate your passion, please refrain from unsolicited self-promotion or driving traffic to personal channels.
Rule: Self-Promotion
What to do instead
- Answer questions instead of announcing. Mention what you sell only when it answers the question, and say it is yours.
- Read the live rules page before you post. The rules can change after the copy we quote was taken.
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Counted from the room's last 41 posts, read 1 Sept 2026. A question is the opening a comment can answer.
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Questions
- Does r/socialmedia allow self-promotion?
- Posting: with conditions. Commenting: open. r/socialmedia's own rules allow promotion only under the conditions quoted below. The room does not restrict who can comment, so answering a question in a thread is open to you. Answer questions instead of announcing. Mention what you sell only when it answers the question, and say it is yours.
- Can I comment about my product in r/socialmedia?
- Open. The room does not restrict who can comment, so answering a question in a thread is open to you. Mention what you sell only when it answers the question someone asked, and say it is yours.
- Does r/socialmedia have a self-promotion thread?
- Its rules, as quoted on this page, name no thread for promotion. Answering questions in the room is the door that stays open.
How this page was made
The rules come from the arctic-shift public mirror's copy of the room's rules list, sidebar and posting guidelines. We do not use the Reddit API. The posting answer rests on the room's own words when they say anything about promotion, then on removals we counted, then on our inference, and the line under each answer says which. A rule that was rewritten after the mirror's copy was taken will not show here, which is why the capture date is printed above.
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