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Can you promote on r/ProgrammerHumor?
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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- its rules on Reddit
For anything funny related to programming and software development.
What its rules say about promotion
No merchandise (mugs, t-shirts) or advertising
Posts or comments must not focus around merchandise, merchandisable goods (mugs, t-shirts, etc), or advertising. These posts are considered spam and removed on sight, even if no purchase link is provided. [Additional detail here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/wiki/rules/advertising/).
What its rules say about AI and bots
No AI generated content
We do not allow posting of AI content including screenshots of AI conversations. AI generated posts reuse commonly reposted jokes that violate our other rules. Repeat offenders of this rule will be permanently banned.
All 9 rules of r/ProgrammerHumor
- Posts must be humorous and programming related
Posts must be humorous, and they must be humorous *because* they are programming related. There must be a joke or meme that **requires programming knowledge, experience, or practice to be understood or relatable.** [See here for further clarification](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/wiki/rules/programming-humor/) - No reposts
Content that is part of top of all time, reached trending in the past 2 months, or has recently been posted, is considered a repost and will be removed - No low-quality content
We also remove the following to preserve the quality of the subreddit, even if it passes the previous rules: - **Feeling/reaction posts** - **Software errors/bugs that are not code (see /r/softwaregore)** - **Low effort/quality analogies (enforced at moderator discretion)** - Hotlinking to outside sources is not allowed
Hotlinking is not allowed without explicit permission from the mods, unless it is obvious that the host allows it (e.g. Imgur or other image hosting services). Rehosting for the purposes of offering a direct link to an image is allowed in the comments. - Any common post will be removed if it's not novel
Any post on the list of common posts will be removed. [You can find this list here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/wiki/commonposts). Established meme formats are allowed, as long as the post is compliant with the previous rules. - Put effort into your titles
Titles must also be creative, high effort and relevant to the content. Titles such as “Interesting title”, “.”, “print(title)”, and “I don’t know what to put here” are not allowed. - No merchandise (mugs, t-shirts) or advertising
Posts or comments must not focus around merchandise, merchandisable goods (mugs, t-shirts, etc), or advertising. These posts are considered spam and removed on sight, even if no purchase link is provided. [Additional detail here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/wiki/rules/advertising/). - All titles must be in camelCase
In order to improve readability of posts, all titles must now be in camelCase - No AI generated content
We do not allow posting of AI content including screenshots of AI conversations. AI generated posts reuse commonly reposted jokes that violate our other rules. Repeat offenders of this rule will be permanently banned.
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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