Reddit self-promo pre-flight check
Paste the post you're about to submit. Get a pass/warn/fail across the seven checks that decide whether promotional Reddit posts survive — the 90/10 ratio, disclosure, link density, tone, substance, account trust, and the subreddit's own rules.
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- 90/10 self-promotion ratio — passYou report ~10% of your recent activity is promotional — inside the 10% norm.
- Affiliation disclosed — warnNo disclosure phrase found. If this post touches your own product, open with “I built this, so I’m biased.” Concealment is what gets posts removed.
- Link density — passNo links — ideal for a first post in a community. Let people ask.
- Promotional tone — passNo ad-copy phrases detected. Reads like a contribution, not a campaign.
- Substance — failToo short to carry a product mention. A drive-by mention is exactly what gets filtered.
- Account trust (CQS proxy) — pass6 months old with ~500 karma — an established account most automod thresholds admit.
- Subreddit rules read — failRead the target subreddit’s rules first. Many ban product mentions outright or route them to a weekly thread.
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How this check works
Reddit is the highest-signal community channel a small company can earn — and the least forgiving to get wrong. Removal rarely comes from one bad sentence; it comes from recognizable patterns: accounts that mostly promote themselves, undisclosed founders posing as satisfied users, link-dropping, ad-copy tone, and new accounts whose first act is a product mention. Each check above maps to one of those patterns.
Two checks deserve special weight. The 90/10 ruleis the platform’s core self-promotion norm — nine genuine contributions for every promotional one, judged as a pattern rather than a quota. And your account’s hidden Contributor Quality Score decides whether your post renders at all: many subreddits auto-filter low-trust accounts before a human sees the content, which is why account age and karma appear here as visible proxies.
What this tool deliberately does not do: guarantee anything. Every subreddit ’s own rules override general heuristics — some ban product mentions entirely, many route them to designated weekly threads, and moderators rule on the spirit, not the letter. When a draft sits in a grey zone, the highest-percentage move is messaging the moderators first. For the full playbook — disclosure-first answers, promo-thread discipline, migration guides — see the community-safe plays in the ideas library and the honest GummySearch migration guide.
Frequently asked questions
What is the 90/10 rule on Reddit?
The long-standing self-promotion norm: at most one in ten of your contributions should promote your own work, and the other nine should be genuine participation. It is a pattern check, not just arithmetic — the same link posted repeatedly across subreddits is spam at any ratio.
What is the Contributor Quality Score?
A hidden, site-wide trust score Reddit computes for every account. Moderators can wire it into automod, so low-trust accounts have posts silently filtered before any human reads them. Account age, karma, and a history of genuine participation are the practical proxies you can see and improve.
If my draft passes, is it safe to post?
Safer, not safe. This tool checks the general patterns that get promotional posts removed, but every subreddit’s own rules override general heuristics, and moderators always have the last word. For anything in a grey zone, message the moderators first with your draft — a pre-cleared post cannot be removed as rule-breaking.
Does my draft get sent to your servers?
No. The analysis runs entirely in your browser — there is no network call in the checker. Paste with confidence.
Why does disclosure score so heavily?
Because concealment is the failure mode platforms actively hunt. An honest “I built this, so I’m biased” consistently outperforms stealth: readers reward candor, moderators leave disclosed expertise standing, and undisclosed founder promotion is the exact inauthenticity pattern trust-scoring exists to catch.
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