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Open Source on Reddit

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Post with careYou can post, but there are rules to clear first.

Can you post your project here?

Posts promoting your project are allowed but must be flaired as 'Promotional'. Avoid excessive self-promotion, keeping it below Reddit's recommended 10% of your total posts. Do not karma farm or post only links from aggregators.

Before you post: Flair post as 'Promotional'. Keep self-promotion below Reddit's <10% guideline. Do not karma farm. Link directly to articles, not aggregations.

The rules, in their words

  1. Be Respectful: This shouldn't need to be a rule, but this is the internet. People can unnecessarily be jerks sometimes. We'd much appreciate it if this wasn't a place where that happens. Please refrain from talking down to people, being overly patronizing, name-calling, personal insults, etc. **Hate speech of any kind will not** be tolerated. For a refresher, please see Reddit's entry on [Reddiquette](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette) as a general guideline.
  2. No Spam or Excessive Self-Promotion: Reddit has clear rules about [self promotion](https://reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion). We encourage you to be proud of/promote your work to a degree, but we also don't want users using this sub as a link farm to promote their project/website/YouTube channel. Reddit recommends that <10% of your posts promote your content. We're a *little* more forgiving, but don't take advantage of it. *"It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account."*
  3. Memes & Low-Effort Posts: This sub is a place for discussion and news regarding the world of open source projects. There are literally hundreds of other subs dedicated to memes and shitposting. Please keep those kinds of posts in those subs.
  4. Be On-Topic: Posts should be of direct relevance to the open source community. Off-topic posts will be removed.
  5. No Sensationalized Titles: If your post is a link to an article, please keep your post title as close to, if not the same as, the linked article's title. You're more than welcome to post a comment in the thread that states your opinion of said article.
  6. No Drive-By Posting / Karma Farming: Karma farm accounts are not going to be welcome here, regardless of the validity of the posted content. Drive-by posts from accounts where there is obviously no intention of engaging in the following discussion may be removed.
  7. No Link Aggregations: If there's an article within an aggregation of links/stories or a newsletter, link to the actual story or article.
  8. Use Correct Flairs: [Flairs](https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/xrw5s9/new_postflairs/) should reflect the nature of the post. `Promotional` is when you are sharing a project, yours or otherwise. `Alternatives` is when you are soliciting for suggestions of OSS that fulfills a need. `Discussion` is for asking general questions when `Promotional` or `Alternatives` does not apply. `Community` is for something that will or has happened when `Promotional` does not apply.
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