r/VideoEditing

What r/VideoEditing's rules say about promotion

5 of 15 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

1. No advertising your video-related services

   rule 6 of 15

   The purpose of the subreddit is to provide advice and help for hobbyist editors. If you are trying to find new clients /r/forhire may be a more appropriate place for such posts. Free isn't okay either. If you want to do free work, we recommend that you find someone local (friends, non profit, a hobby film group) who needs help

2. No use of URL shorteners

   rule 7 of 15

   URL shorteners are helpful in character-limited social media settings, but with Reddit's 10,000 character limit and [ability to obscure a link within markdown](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/commenting), they are unnecessary and can be used to obscure where someone is being directed to, which may be abused to direct people to unsafe websites, or to generate revenue by way of an advertising landing page (which we view as spam). An exception to this rule will be made for Approved Submitters.

3. No advertising of spammy or license-abusive software

   rule 8 of 15

   This applies to software known to abuse either existing closed-source licenses or known to be abusing open source licenses. Brorsoft is a prime example of a company stealing Open Source video processing code and reselling it without permission.

4. No promoting your YouTube channel

   rule 12 of 15

   This is not a subreddit for people to promote their YouTube channel, or otherwise drive traffic to their channel in order to inflate their viewership/subscription numbers. People posting links to their own YouTube channels is allowed for critiquing, sharing of content for others to use, or on [Tutorial] Tuesday. However posting links for the sole purpose of promoting your YouTube channel is not allowed, and repeated violation can result in a ban.

   Removal reason shown to posters: Promoting/driving traffic to their YouTube Channel

5. Generally, self promotion is frowned upon.

   rule 13 of 15

   Generally, self promotion is frowned upon. Especially if you're not contributing at a 10:1 rediquette ratio.

Read from r/VideoEditing’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.