Can you self-promote on r/ProgrammingBuddies?

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

Self-promotion restricted. Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed. Read 2026-09-26 from the community's own rules.

Reddit rules index · read 2026-09-26

Can you promote on r/ProgrammingBuddies?

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

What this page is

This page quotes r/ProgrammingBuddies's rules as ThreadFox read them on 2026-09-26. The quoted text is the community's; the verdict above is our reading of it. Conditions often decide whether a post fits (a required thread, flair, posting day, account age or karma), and r/ProgrammingBuddies's current rules on Reddit always win over this page.

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its rules on Reddit

Find active programming buddies, mentors, mentees, and study partners. Include timezone, stack, experience, and goal in buddy-finding posts.

What its rules say about promotion

No promotion.
Video tutorials or links to your products asking users to review it will result in ban.

All 10 rules of r/ProgrammingBuddies

Relevant information.
Provide relevant title and description with useful information such as experience level, technology/languages interested in, number of hours you're available per day/week, timezone, etc.
No spam!
Spam of any kind will result in ban for the user/s.
No promotion.
Video tutorials or links to your products asking users to review it will result in ban.
No idea guys or job recruiters are welcome.
This subreddit exists to help you find a programming buddy, not a programming slave or an employee. Go ahead and create a new startup, but you have to be a programmer.
This is not a support forum.
Head to this subreddit's info to find a place where you can ask for help.
Post frequency. (Does not apply to posts with no or very few responses)
Do not post very often. Think twice about your post before posting and stick to the project with you new buddies. In case you did not get sufficient number of responses, you are allowed to create a new post (It would be reasonable to delete the old post probably)
Stay in the topic
Stay in the topic (finding programming buddies) or you will get banned.
English only.
English is the only language allowed in this subreddit.
Don't be an a**hole.
Do not harass or attack anybody, discrimination or violence of any kind will not be accepted. Behave as a civilised human or you'll be banned permanently.
No off-site recruitment or Discord contact requests
Do not recruit users to Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, or any other off-site platform. This includes posting invite links, asking users to DM you for an invite, or asking for Discord usernames so you can add them. All initial communication and matching must happen on Reddit (comments or Reddit chat). After connecting here, you and Do not DM people privately unless they explicitly ask you to — unsolicited invitations to Discords, groups, projects, or platforms may result in removal or a ban.

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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