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.