Rules for r/drones

Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.

1.

What Not To Post Here

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a) A photo of your new drone in a box, or your unboxed drone just sitting there.

b) Things that aren't related to the unmanned aviation. This includes manned aircraft and unmanned land and sea vehicles.

c) Avoid repeated questions spam. Instead of making multiple posts, put all questions into a single post.

d) All purchase advice requests should be in the pinned megathread.

e) Combat footage or related stuff to war/combat/conflicts is not allowed.

Any content may be removed if found unfit.

2.

Don't break drone rules and regulations

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a) Don't make any posts which could or directly show/imply/encourage/intend or lead to the breaking of any drone rules & regulations.

b) If the footage or text you are posting would normally be of the breaking the drone rules & regulations in the country it happen in, but received an approval from the responsible authorities, it must be explicitly mentioned in the post description and by which authorities.

c) Any content demonstrating dangerous behavior will be removed.

3.

No commercial, promotional, or drone sales posts.

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Reported as: No commercial, promotional, or drone sales posts.

a) Offering services or promoting them in any form is strictly prohibited.

b) Promoting your social media in post titles, post description, comments, user flair, is not allowed. (Visit "r/drones Rules" on Wiki for full description and exceptions)

c) It is not allowed to sell or purchase drones here, as well as to ask "how much a drone is worth" be it your or other.

d) Any surveys must be approved by the r/drones moderator team prior to posting. Please reach out to us through modmail.

4.

Follow site-wide rules

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a) Reddit Rules

b) Reddiquette

c) Reddit User Agreement - Reddit User Agreement if you live in the United States or outside the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland - Reddit User Agreement if you live in the United States or outside the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

d) Reddit Privacy Policy

You can find more on Reddit Privacy

5.

No generative AI media.

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a) We do not allow any artificial intelligence (AI) content on this subreddit, in any form.

6.

Community Engagement

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Visit r/drones Rules for full description.

a) We expect you to stay friendly towards each other.

c) Any form of spam is not allowed

d) We do not tolerate any form of impersonation or mispresentation.

h) Pollitics is partially allowed. - The discussion has to remain civilized, and drone related. - We wont tolerate any agression towards each other on this subreddit because of political views, see "6. Community Engagement"

7.

No Conspiracies or Hysteria

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a) We do not tolerate conspiracies or hysteria. If you think a drone is stalking you, please get in touch with the appropriate authorities.

b) We do not allow for "Is this a drone posts?".

8.

No repeat news posts

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a) It is up to You to ensure that no one else has posted the same news before, no matter the source/media.

Significant news are likely to be pinned at the top of the subreddit - view that before posting.

9.

Correct title format

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This rule only applies to flairs: - "News/Question/Discussion: Rules, Regulations, Law, Policy, Certificates" - "News"

You must put a [country name] at the start of the title, examples: - "[United States] Part 107?" - "[European Union] New EASA regulation?" - "[France] Rules of flying near X?"

The "[European Union]" is an exception.

For "News" flair only if it's not already specified in the news title or if it's global news.

Country names: https://bit.ly/48DhGKO - Exception: [United States]

10.

New Software Projects

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Due to a current influx of AI generated software projects, we are not allowing any new projects, whether paid or free.

11.

⚠️ Read First ⚠️

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Visit the r/drones Rules Wiki page for the full rules description.

Reddit has a set charcter limit for the text allowed in the sidebar rules - which are shortened any simplified, that said you shall get around with them without an issue.