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Can you promote on r/freelanceuk?

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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For people based in the UK who freelance full or part time. Freelancers in all industries welcome.

What its rules say about promotion

No promoting your own freelance or agency business
This subreddit is for news, questions and information that will help freelancers working in the UK. It is not here to link to your freelance or agency website. If you are trying to get a link, write something useful for UK freelancers on your site and then link to that.
No promoting your own app or service website
This subreddit is for news, questions and information that will help freelancers working in the UK. It is not here to link to your app or service website. If you are trying to get a link, write something useful for UK freelancers on your site and then link to that.
No affiliate links

What its rules say about AI and bots

No AI written posts or comments
If the mods think your submission is written using AI, it will not be let through to a live post and comments will be removed
All 11 rules of r/freelanceuk
  1. No promoting your own freelance or agency business
    This subreddit is for news, questions and information that will help freelancers working in the UK. It is not here to link to your freelance or agency website. If you are trying to get a link, write something useful for UK freelancers on your site and then link to that.
  2. No product research and development posts
    If you want to get information for building a product aimed at freelancers, kindly buy a Reddit Ad and do it from your own page instead of posting here
  3. No links to sign ups for future services
    Please do not post links to a page which is only a sign up for a future service for freelancers.
  4. No promoting your own app or service website
    This subreddit is for news, questions and information that will help freelancers working in the UK. It is not here to link to your app or service website. If you are trying to get a link, write something useful for UK freelancers on your site and then link to that.
  5. No requests for mentors / offers to shadow freelancers (sorry, too many.)
  6. No surveys
    If your survey is very important to you, why not buy a Reddit Ad and target this subreddit and /r/freelance as well
  7. No affiliate links
  8. Linking to informative posts is welcome
    Links to informative posts about working as a freelancer effectively and productively are welcome.
  9. No AI written posts or comments
    If the mods think your submission is written using AI, it will not be let through to a live post and comments will be removed
  10. Post work to the 'hire' subs (open this for links)
    Please post work to /r/freelance_forhire and /r/ForHireFreelance rather than here
  11. New posts get held up for now
    New posts will wait until a mod approves it through as we're getting a lot of spam at the moment

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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