reddit is a pretty open platform and free speech place, but there are a few rules:

1. Don't spam.

   [+] What is spam?

   • NOT OK: Submitting only links to your blog or personal website.
   • OK: Submitting links from a variety of sites and sources.
   • OK: Submitting links from your own site, talking with redditors in the comments, and also submitting cool stuff from other sites.
   • NOT OK: Posting the same comment repeatedly in multiple subreddits.

2. Don't ask for votes or engage in vote manipulation.

   [+] What does vote manipulation look like?

   • NOT OK: Buying votes or using services to vote.
   • OK: Sharing reddit links with your friends.
   • NOT OK: Sharing links with your friends or coworkers and asking them to vote.
   • NOT OK: Creating submissions such as "For every upvote I will ..." or "... please upvote this!", regardless of the cause.

3. Don't post personal information.

   [+] What might be personal information?

   • NOT OK: Posting a link to your friend's facebook profile.
   • OK: Posting your senator's publicly available contact information
   • NOT OK: Posting the full name, employer, or other real-life details of another redditor
   • OK: Posting a link to a public page maintained by a celebrity.

4. No child pornography or sexually suggestive content featuring minors.

5. Don't break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of the site.

   [+] Tell me more.

   • NOT OK: Creating programs that request information more than once every 2 seconds or violate any of our other API rules.
   • AWESOME: Responsibly reporting security issues to us.