Can you self-promote on r/emacs?

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

No rule mentions promotion. None of its rules mentions self-promotion. That is not permission: read every rule, say plainly that it's yours, and make the post useful on its own. Read 2026-09-26 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/emacs?

No rule mentions promotion None of its rules mentions self-promotion. That is not permission: read every rule, say plainly that it's yours, and make the post useful on its own.

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All 4 rules of r/emacs

Topic: Emacs
The topic is Emacs. Submissions should be on it. Comment threads may diverge, within reason.
Civility: Be kind, please.
Make conversations productive. The ideas or behavior may be bad, and the person can adjust based on feedback, but not when you make it about them personally. Don't call people foul names; don't use foul language.
Humor: Make sure that any is.
Before submitting something that's supposed to be funny, make sure that it is. Memes are generally discouraged.
Effort: Give if you expect to receive
Do some research first. Frame your questions. Tell us what you did. Give us the background we can use to infer what you are doing and what your skill level is. It is appropriate to ask low-effort posters to read, subscribe and do basic self-help. This lowers the amount of duplicate posts enriches every post that is not a duplicate. Direct them to the correct sources. Don't gate-keep, but encourage sustainable culture.

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Unpublished minimums.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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