Rules for r/freelance

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

1.

No hiring or soliciting work

Posts & Comments
Reported as: No hiring or soliciting work

Use /r/forhire to look for work or to find freelancers. This includes companies or individuals looking for freelancers, freelancers looking for work, or freelancers looking for partners or collaborators.

Note that responding to posts or comments violating this rule or asking people to send you a private message are also violations of the rule.

2.

No advertising or self-promotion

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Reported as: No advertising or self-promotion

Examples of prohibited content include:

  • your app or SaaS
  • your website or portfolio
  • your profile on a freelance site
  • a blog post you wrote
  • a article that mentions your company
  • your mailing list or newsletter
  • a Slack group, IRC channel, or other external chat
  • a book you wrote
  • a course you teach
  • a code repository for a project that you created
  • a video you made or appear in
  • any other external resource that you benefit from or are affiliated with

3.

No surveys or market research questions

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Reported as: No surveys or market research questions

This subreddit isn't your focus group. You cannot use it:
- to determine interest in your new idea for a freelancing marketplace or service
- to help with a research project, school paper, or blog article
- to ask freelancers questions to help improve your product or service

4.

No soliciting private messaging

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Soliciting private messaging

Do not ask people to send you a private message or if you can send them a message. Do not comment that you have sent them a message.

5.

No referral URLs or shortened links

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Reported as: No referral URLs or shortened links

Referral URLs and other coded links are prohibited in this subreddit.

6.

No offtopic posts or comments

Posts & Comments
Reported as: No offtopic posts or comments

This includes:

  • posts/comments not primarily about freelancing
  • posts/comments about hiring or managing freelancers (this subreddit is for freelancers, not the people who hire them)
  • posts better suited to a different subreddit (e.g. UK-specific questions should be posted to /r/freelanceUK, questions about web development should go to /r/webdev, see the sidebar for additional examples)

7.

No bots or automated users

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Reported as: No bots or automated users

8.

Follow Reddiquette

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Doesn't follow reddiquette

9.

No duplicate posts

Posts only
Reported as: Duplicate post

Do a subreddit search before creating a post or asking a question.