Yeah, good point and definitely agree with this.

I don't actually promote my product on Reddit, I just promote useful content I've created. My posts pretty consistently reach #1 on /r/django because (I suspect) I put substantially more time and effort into them than the average Django guide. I also try quite hard to be a good citizen and give back in a non-promotional way.

Edit: I didn't know about those numbers/terms you added. Will take a look and update my behavior accordingly if necessary.

I wouldn’t call your posts “self-promos”. You’re actually posting guides, not “2 lines of text now buy my product”. You’re already being a reasonable redditor.

I had my domain "banned" after arguing with a very self aggrandizing mod (and almost exclusively self promoting poster) in a particular sub.

My offense? An instructional blog about how to scrape commonly requested data by many members of the sub.

Your domain gets banned in that specific subreddit?

Thanks for saying this. Certainly how I feel, but I haven't read the rules...

I tend to agree with you, but posting your own content is by definition self-promotion if it's content marketing (which the vast majority of your blog posts are). At the very least that's how a power-hungry Reddit mod with a bug up their butt will treat it.

You can circumvent Reddit's genius heuristic by changing "look what I made" to "look what I found" so that it matches all of Reddit's other content. Boom, now you can do it across infinite accounts whereas when you were honest, you were limited to one account.

Those rules are so juvenile. Why shouldn't a website have an official reddit account from which they post? Especially when the circumvention is so trivial?

> Why shouldn't a website have an official reddit account from which they post? Especially when the circumvention is so trivial?

Because it would remove ad revenue from Reddit if any company could just post ads without paying.

Sort of, people can still catch on by going to the reddit page that lists all the submissions by domain name and may notice trends if it's like only a specific type of submission being done repeatedly, like for example using OPs domain you can see all the posts linking to his domain https://www.reddit.com/domain/saaspegasus.com/

That's true, you have limited options when it comes to Reddit submissions no matter how crafty you are.

But comment promotion is unlimited, and for that reason, that's where my mind went.

For example, some of my highest volume referrals from Reddit were comment-replies I left on some submission that became the main result for, say, "best <product> 2020". People trust comments and they have weirdly-good authority in the SERPs.

Right now if you google "battery life of <product>", it parses a comment I made on Reddit in 2018 and shows in the instant-answer box.

I know I'm getting off the thread's rails. Just thought it was somewhat interesting.

No way with getting off the thread’s rails. This is a good point and your examples of How strong some of your comments are for referrals is helpful.

>Reddit's standard 10% cap on self-promo posts

I'm surprised to hear that's a rule considering the scale of 'every single post is someone's youtube channel or news site' I see from users on reddit lately. I assumed they gave up on that rule.

It used to be a hard rule that would trigger a shadowban, now it's just "reddiquette".

Yeah I thought that was the case too.

It's strange, I'm seeing a lot of very low tech spam on reddit now. They (the spammer) are not even trying to hide it and reddit doesn't seem to care.

Like it's not hard to script out "check if user submitted a bazillion posts to the same youtube channel" and flag ... at least a good chunk of those.

Reddit doesn't even seem to bother now.

I'm even seeing wholesale just offensive image spam go on for ages like the old days of internet forums, reddit doesn't seem to bother with them...

You are right. I am a mod of a fairly big subreddit (over 2 million). Reddit really doesn't care.

If the account is new enough and links are spammed within a short amount of time, they are getting auto banned/flagged.

Accounts that are a bit older can get away with it. Sometimes those posts get removed automatically, but that's pretty unlikely. At our sub, we do flag every post that contains a link automatically. In 80% of the cases, this is spam and we delete it.

We have had spammers that kept coming back with new accounts. We have reported it numerous times to Reddit, but we highly doubt that any action has been taken. Especially accounts that try to promote youtube videos are hard to block.

It's generally up to the mods to take action. I do not believe that the 10% rule is enforced in any way.

There used to be a spam subreddit where you could submit a username and describe the pattern of their spam (particularity if it was sneaky).

Bans actually seemed to be really consistent from those reports.

That got shutdown and now the FAQ says use their typical contact admin / black hole that doesn't do that thing...

Some subreddits, I've noticed (depending on their nature) have days specified for things that might otherwise be more aggressively moderated like fan-art or self-promotion adjacent content.

Oh fan art and etc, I'm not thinking of that.

I'm thinking more large scale across subreddits (including a lot of subs that have nothing to do with the content). Most of these accounts have almost zero recent comments and etc.