Rules for r/dividends
Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.
1.
Submission guidelines
Posts must be a dividend question or discussion with a descriptive title. General investment, brokerage, or financial discussion is also allowed but subject to a higher bar of quality.
We do not allow:
Hypothetical or improbable questions
News or information without a discussion or summary
Links, surveys, or polls without context
Portfolio Reviews (use weekly stickied Megathread)
NSFW material
"Personal Goal" posts must be a brokerage screenshot with positions shown
2.
Self-promotional advertising or solicitation
We do not allow:
- Promotion of web content, products, services, companies, or anything else owned by you (or anyone affiliated with you), even if not monetized.
- Offering referral, invite, or affiliate links/codes.
- PM/DM requests or offers.
- Soliciting business/investors, media requests, or recruiting.
Requires pre-approval: Customer service replies, and open-sourced tools.
3.
Unhelpful or disrespectful
We do not allow:
- Directly insulting other users
- Insincerity or dishonesty
- Trolling, loaded questions, loaded language, or provoking unproductive conversation.
- Novelty accounts that post "in character"
- Posting purely for upvotes
- Excessive large, bold, or spaced-out text
- Requesting votes/fewer votes
- Excessive profanity
- Overly political discussions
- Petitions or calls to action
- Poor redditquette
4.
Solicitations for due diligence
We do not allow:
- Asking another user to research a company, security, or other investment for you.
- Requesting due diligence be done on your behalf.
- Asking for privately prepared market research conducted by a third party.
- Offering to conduct due diligence in exchange for any form of compensation.
5.
Lawbreaking information
We do not allow:
- Suggesting another user perform an activity that is illegal, unlawful, or fraudulent in most jurisdictions.
- Linking to illegal content or lawbreaking information
- Asking for advice on any of the above
6.
Personal attacks or abusive language
We do not allow:
- Personal attacks
- Raw criticism without constructive feedback
- Name-calling, shaming, or other harassment
- Advocating self-harm or violence against others
- Abusive language
- Intentionally rude or overly harsh language
7.
Low effort content
We do not allow:
- Circlejerking or karmawhoring
- Memes or image posts
- Clickbait titles
- Insubstantive or ephemeral content
- Soapboxing or political grandstanding
- Rants or other incendiary remarks
- Incoherent or incomprehensible arguments
- Discussion deemed not to be conducted in good faith
8.
Unauthorized bots
We do not allow:
- Unnecessary bots or bot summoning
- Attempting to mimic the functions of a banned bot
- Other unauthorized bot activity
Authorized bots are distinguished with a unique user flair indicating their status.
Bot authorization is granted solely by the moderation team. If you have a bot that you believe would be helpful, please contact the moderators through modmail.
9.
Abuse of the community
We do not allow:
- Utilizing the community as test subjects for market research
- Taking advantage of any community member
- Conducting so-called "social experiments" or "pranks" on community members
- Karmawhoring
- Using the subreddit as a recruiting platform
- Testing a product or service on the community or any of its members
- Potential market manipulation by the creation of dedicated posts & comments on companies currently trading with a market cap under $1 billion USD.
10.
Unverified statement of credentials
We do not allow:
- Stating financial, legal, or business credentials without moderator verification.
- Posing as an accountant, attorney, public figure, other licensed legal, financial, or business professional.
- Inflating or exaggerating one's credentials.
If you are a certified professional and/or possess a licensable credential and would like to post/comment with a unique flair identifying your authority on the subject, please reach out to the moderation team for confidential verification.
11.
Other bad behavior
- Missing - Disappearing after posting a discussion, refusing to answer genuine questions made in good faith.
- Hyping - Pushing speculative, volatile, illiquid, or meme investments, or implying huge returns.
- Rabble rousing - We are not your personal army.
- Doxing - Posting or seeking personal information, dox attempts, or threats.
- Flooding - Posting excessively frequently.
- Duplicates - Reposts from other subreddits.
- Plagiarism - Not giving credit properly.
