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r/freelance 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 hiring or soliciting work

   Enforcement varies

   Use /r/forhire to look for work or to find freelancers. This includes companies or individuals looking for freelancers, freelancers looking for work, or freelancers looking for partners or collaborators. Note that responding to posts or comments violating this rule or asking people to send you a private message are also violations of the rule.

2. 2.No advertising or self-promotion

   Enforcement varies

   **Examples** of prohibited content include: - your app or SaaS - your website or portfolio - your profile on a freelance site - a blog post you wrote - a article that mentions your company - your mailing list or newsletter - a Slack group, IRC channel, or other external chat - a book you wrote - a course you teach - a code repository for a project that you created - a video you made or appear in - any other external resource that you benefit from or are affiliated with

3. 3.No surveys or market research questions

   Enforcement varies

   This subreddit isn't your focus group. You cannot use it: - to determine interest in your new idea for a freelancing marketplace or service - to help with a research project, school paper, or blog article - to ask freelancers questions to help improve your product or service

4. 4.No soliciting private messaging

   Enforcement varies

   Do not ask people to send you a private message or if you can send them a message. Do not comment that you have sent them a message.

5. 5.No referral URLs or shortened links

   Enforcement varies

   Referral URLs and other coded links are prohibited in this subreddit.

6. 6.No offtopic posts or comments

   Enforcement varies

   This includes: - posts/comments not primarily about freelancing - posts/comments about hiring or managing freelancers (this subreddit is for freelancers, not the people who hire them) - posts better suited to a different subreddit (e.g. UK-specific questions should be posted to /r/freelanceUK, questions about web development should go to /r/webdev, see the sidebar for additional examples)

7. 7.No bots or automated users

   Enforcement varies

8. 8.Follow Reddiquette

   Enforcement varies

   https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439

9. 9.No duplicate posts

   Enforcement varies

   Do a subreddit search before creating a post or asking a question.

r/freelance 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.