Can you self-promote on r/buildapc?

Q: Can you self-promote on r/buildapc?

Self-promotion restricted. Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed. Read 2026-10-05 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/buildapc?

Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.

AI-generated content not allowed Its rules remove some or all AI-generated posts, comments or media. Write it yourself here, or pick another community. Other communities' AI rules.

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What its rules say about promotion

No self-promotion, begging, advertising or surveys
This includes self-serving/affiliate links, advertisements of your own services/content/fundraising, or begging of any form.

No selling, trading or requests for valuation
If you want to buy, sell or trade hardware you should do so on /r/hardwareswap. Price evaluations should be requested through /r/hardwareswap's Discord server. Discussions of privately buying, selling or trading hardware and/or software are not permitted.

What its rules say about AI and bots

Full build list requests must have relevant information
This includes: budget, use-case, country of purchase, peripherals needed, and other requirements / preferences you have. Lists generated by AI / LLM may be removed, especially if fixing them is considered more work than starting fresh

No bots or automated accounts

All 15 rules of r/buildapc

Be respectful to others
Remember, there's a human being behind the other keyboard. Be considerate of others even if you disagree on something - treat others as you'd wish to be treated. Personal attacks and flame wars will not be tolerated.
Full build list requests must have relevant information
This includes: budget, use-case, country of purchase, peripherals needed, and other requirements / preferences you have. Lists generated by AI / LLM may be removed, especially if fixing them is considered more work than starting fresh
No piracy or grey-market software keys
This includes suggesting, hinting, or in any way implying to someone that piracy, or violation of license agreements is an option. If a license key is abnormally cheap (think $5 - $30), it is probably grey market, and thus forbidden on /r/buildapc.
No laptop or prebuilt PC questions
Submit questions or or requests for suggestions for laptops to /r/suggestalaptop, /r/gaminglaptops or /r/laptops.
No submissions about hardware news, rumors, or reviews
Submit hardware news, rumors or reviews to /r/hardware.
No submissions about sales, deals or unauthorized giveaways
For sales and deals, see /r/buildapcsales. Any giveaways must be approved by the moderators before being posted.
No submissions about retailer or customer service experiences
Submit retailer or customer service experiences to /r/PCRetailers. This includes talk about RMAs, retailers, sales people and all other things retail.
No titles that are all-caps, clickbait, PSAs, pro-tips or contain emoji.
This includes titles containing emoji, asking to be upvoted or not upvoted, PSAs, LPTs, "protips", "reminders" and all other common tactics attempting to draw extra attention to the title.
No submissions that are low-effort, memes, jokes, meta, or hypothetical / dream builds.
Memes and jokes are permitted as comments, but not as submissions. No joke advice (See Rule #13).
No self-promotion, begging, advertising or surveys
This includes self-serving/affiliate links, advertisements of your own services/content/fundraising, or begging of any form.
No selling, trading or requests for valuation
If you want to buy, sell or trade hardware you should do so on /r/hardwareswap. Price evaluations should be requested through /r/hardwareswap's Discord server. Discussions of privately buying, selling or trading hardware and/or software are not permitted.
No excessive posting (more than one submission in 24 hours)
To prevent spam and allow everyone to receive they help they want, only one post per 24 hours is permitted. If you are unhappy with the attention your post got, you can make a top level comment in the daily questions thread, otherwise wait until 24 hours have passed before posting again.
No intentionally harmful, misleading or joke advice
No bots or automated accounts
Ban Appeal
[Ban appeals must be conducted via modmail](https://old.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fbuildapc). Any public appeals will be removed and rejected.

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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