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Can you promote on r/esp8266?
Allowed, with limits Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out.
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What its rules say about promotion
Criteria for commercial posts
Commercial posts (links to your own webstore, blog, kickstarter, etc.) are allowed within the following parameters: 1. Must be esp8266 or IOT related, and must not be blog spam (see blog spam rule). 2. No more than one per week 3. You MUST contribute to this subreddit with comments and/or posts unrelated to your commercial posts.
No blog spam
Links to articles considered blog spam when: 1. Content is thin, copypasta, offtopic, or otherwise unhelpful, or 2. Primary purpose is to generate ad/affiliate revenue, use deceptive tactics to achieve clicks, or break content into many pages to increase impressions. Articles with ads/affiliate links are OK as long as they are secondary to the content. 3. Mods determine blog spam at their discretion Links to helpful esp8266 or IOT related blog articles are welcome.
All 3 rules of r/esp8266
- Criteria for commercial posts
Commercial posts (links to your own webstore, blog, kickstarter, etc.) are allowed within the following parameters: 1. Must be esp8266 or IOT related, and must not be blog spam (see blog spam rule). 2. No more than one per week 3. You MUST contribute to this subreddit with comments and/or posts unrelated to your commercial posts. - No blog spam
Links to articles considered blog spam when: 1. Content is thin, copypasta, offtopic, or otherwise unhelpful, or 2. Primary purpose is to generate ad/affiliate revenue, use deceptive tactics to achieve clicks, or break content into many pages to increase impressions. Articles with ads/affiliate links are OK as long as they are secondary to the content. 3. Mods determine blog spam at their discretion Links to helpful esp8266 or IOT related blog articles are welcome. - No illegal activities
Asking about illegal things, like deauthers, WiFi duckies, wrong channels for region and others are forbidden unless they are specifically stated as educational or research projects. Posts/Comments that do not specify this will be deleted and OP can be banned from the sub.
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- Unpublished minimums.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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