I spent an hour on a post for r/SaaS. It was gone in about ninety seconds. No message, no email, nothing — I'd tripped a rule I never read.
I did what everyone does: refreshed the page, checked my profile, assumed the post was still there. It was, to me. To everyone else it didn't exist. That's how most Reddit removals work — quietly, with no notification — and it's why so many people conclude their account is broken when the real issue is a rule they couldn't see.
So I went and learned the machinery: how AutoMod reads a post, how the spam filter treats new and low-karma accounts, how each subreddit sets its own karma and account-age gates, and how a shadowban differs from a suspension. Most of it isn't written down in one place. Some of it isn't written down at all — you infer it from what actually gets removed.
WillItStay is the tool I wanted that morning. Paste a draft, pick a subreddit, and see which rule would kill it before you hit submit — with a rewrite that clears the trigger and keeps your voice.
What it won't do
It won't farm karma for you, and it won't write your post from scratch. It doesn't make bad posts good — a boring post is still a boring post. It answers one question: will this stay? And if it won't, it tells you exactly why and hands you a version that passes.
A note on Reddit
WillItStay isn't affiliated with Reddit, and it isn't a way to spam it. Getting removed for a rule you didn't know is a bad experience for you and a waste of a mod's time. Clearing that up before you post is good for everyone — the post still has to be worth reading.
Who's behind it
WillItStay is built by Yassine, an indie founder who has posted (and been removed) across enough subreddits to take the problem personally. Have a removal we should understand better, or a subreddit's rules we've gotten wrong? That feedback is how the tool gets sharper — it's genuinely welcome.