Promoting on r/userexperience: Rules and What Gets Removed
r/userexperience is a community for professionals, enthusiasts, and others interested in user experience to share knowledge, ask questions, and discuss UX topics.
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2008
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8
community rules
Can you promote your product in r/userexperience?
You generally cannot promote your product in r/userexperience unless you have already contributed meaningfully. The rules say "No self-promotion without prior contributions" and "Please contribute to the community before showing off your own work or materials. Aim for a 10:1 ratio," and they also ban "blog spam, paid events, or marketing materials" plus "promotion of agencies, vendors, services, or software."
The rules that cover promotion
Rule 8: No self-promotion without prior contributions
"Please contribute to the community before showing off your own work or materials. Aim for a 10:1 ratio."
Rule 3: No blog-spam, paid events, or marketing materials
"No blog-spam, paid events, or marketing materials"
Sidebar rule 4
"no self-promotion or surveys"
Sidebar rule 5
"No promotion of agencies, vendors, services, or software"
Quoted from the subreddit's own rules, snapshot from July 2026. Read all 8 rules on Reddit
What gets removed
- Self-promotion without prior contributions
- Blog spam, paid events, or marketing materials
- Promotion of agencies, vendors, services, or software
- Surveys or research recruitment
Safer ways to show up
- Contribute first before showing your own work or materials, the rules say to aim for a 10:1 ratio
- Share knowledge, answer questions, and join UX discussions without pitching a product
- Put career questions in the stickied Career Questions thread
- Put portfolio critique requests in the stickied Share Your Portfolio thread
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