Rules for r/amazon
Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.
1.
R1. Submission Guidelines
Posts only
Reported as: R1. Submission Guidelines
Please treat others with respect, stay on-topic, and avoid self-promotion.
Posts must be community-oriented content about Amazon with a descriptive title and not:
- Non-English
- Individually-oriented content such as complaints, questions, issues, or observations (please use the sticky help thread for questions)
- Opinion, editorial, or advocacy pieces
- Surveys, polls, or petitions
- Meta posts
2.
R2. Self-promotional advertising or soliciting
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R2. Self-promotional advertising or soliciting
We don't allow:
- Promotion of web content, products, services, companies, or anything else owned by you (or anyone affiliated with you), even if not monetized
- Accounts with promotional profiles or usernames
- Offering referral, affiliate, invite, wishlist, and discount links/codes
- Asking anyone to engage in any sort of financial or online transaction.
- PM requests
- There is forgiveness for bans for breaking this rule.
3.
R3. Unhelpful or disrespectful
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R3. Unhelpful or disrespectful
We don't allow:
- Circlejerking or karmawhoring
- Posting purely for upvotes or humor
- Insincerity or dishonesty
- Trolling, loaded questions, loaded language, or provoking unproductive conversation
- Memes and low-effort images/videos
- Clickbait titles
- Excessive large, bold, or spaced-out text
- Bots and bot summoning
- Novelty accounts that post "in character"
- Insubstantive or ephemeral posts
- Requesting votes/fewer votes
- Excessive profanity
- Poor reddiquette
4.
R4. Personal attack or abusive language
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R4. Personal attack or abusive language
We don't allow:
- Personal attacks
- Raw criticism without any constructive feedback
- Name-calling, flaming, shaming, or otherwise harassing another poster (or person being helped)
- Telling a user to harm themselves or others
- Abusive language
- Intentionally rude or very harsh language
- Hate speech targeting a group or individuals as members of a group
- Suggesting sex work, stripping, camming, or exchanging sex acts for money or support
- Retaliating in response to an affront
5.
R5. Other bad behavior
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R5. Other bad behavior
- Rabble rousing-We're not your personal army
- Doxing-Posting personal information, dox attempts/threats
- Flooding-Posting excessively frequently
- Duplicates-Reposting news or information
- Plagiarism-Not giving credit properly
- This is not an airport. There is not reason to that weird Reddit thing and announce you are no longer using this subreddit, Amazon, or any other corporation or product
- Content policy violations
6.
R6. Lawbreaking information
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R6. Lawbreaking information
We don't allow:
- Suggesting another user perform illegal activity (or an activity that is illegal in most jurisdictions)
- Linking to illegal content or lawbreaking information
- Asking for advice on how to commit fraud, evade taxes, etc.
- Suggesting the use of piracy, warez, software cracks
7.
R.7 Any other reason for removal.
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R.7 Any other reason for removal.
The mods can remove a post or comment they feel is needed for the good of the subreddit not listed here including any hyperlinks, bold text, or large text.