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r/Design rules: what actually gets removed

Each rule below is paired with the way it is most likely enforced. Where the rules state a number, we quote it. Where they do not, we say so instead of guessing.

1. 1.No promotional/commercial activities.

   Enforcement varies

   This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising. It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead. You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services.

2. 2.If posting someone else's work, credit them appropriately.

   Enforced automatically

   If posting someone else's work, use the 'Someone Else's Work' flair. If posting your own work but it's been heavily inspired by, or has drawn on, elements of another person's design, you must credit them. Claiming someone else's work as your own will result in removal and repeated offenders will receive a ban.

3. 3.All shared work must have a comment for context.

   Enforcement varies

   You must write a comment explaining any work that you post for feedback. The work’s objective, its audience, your design decisions, etc. This information is necessary to allow people to understand your project and provide feedback.

4. 4.No basic/repeated questions.

   Enforcement varies

   Please Google your question first, and then use the search function on Reddit to see whether someone else has asked your question already. This also applies to font identification questions: use r/identifythisfont instead.

5. 5.This is not a “homework” forum.

   Enforcement varies

   This is not a place to pick the brains of other designers to do your job for you. You can ask questions, or post asking for inspiration, but please don’t cross the line to getting other users to do your work for you.

6. 6.No off-topic/non-civil discussion.

   Enforcement varies

   We recognise that design can be political and controversial. We welcome that content here, but please keep all discussion in the comments civil and focussed on the design. This rule also applies to responding to those who leave critical feedback – please give, and accept, feedback politely.

7. 7.No memes, AI farming and low-quality posts

   Enforcement varies

   MEmes will be removed Low effort posts will be removed Obvious AI-generated posts will be removed and will result in a ban. This also relates to 'What Style is This' posts that are clearly based for AI prompts

8. 8.Is it suitable for this sub?

   Enforcement varies

   To separate r/design from the various other creative industry subs, artwork and posts of pieces that have functional purpose should be submitted here. There's various other subs for /r/art, /r/DigitalArt, photoshop work, illustration etc. Artwork here must have been designed for a functional purpose

r/Design does not publish karma or account-age minimums in its rules. Subreddits often enforce unpublished filters on top of what they write down, which is why posts from new accounts can vanish without a message here.