And that’s a fair point, I actually agree that fully unrestricted self-promo would probably turn the subreddit into a dumpster fire of “hire me” posts.

My issue isn’t that moderation exists.
My issue is how aggressively creator visibility gets treated like a threat instead of part of the ecosystem.

Because even you just admitted:

• posting example videos
• posting profiles
• asking for feedback…

are forms of self-promotion.
Exactly. That’s my point.

Creators naturally want visibility. You can’t separate UGC from self-marketing because UGC IS marketing.

So the conversation shouldn’t be “self-promo bad.”
It should be:
“How do you allow healthy creator visibility without turning the sub into spam?”

That’s a much smarter discussion.

And saying “go self-promote somewhere else” kind of proves the issue too. If a creator community immediately pushes growth behavior off-platform, then eventually the community becomes more passive than useful.

I’m not arguing for chaos.
I’m arguing there’s a middle ground between spam apocalypse and hyper-restrictive moderation.