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Every subreddit has rules in the sidebar and a second set nobody wrote down. These guides cover both: karma and account requirements, what post types are allowed, what gets removed, how people there write, and the keywords they use. Built from public Reddit data and from posting in these communities ourselves.
What happens to a new post on Reddit
30% of new posts in these subreddits were removed or held.
- Stayed up69%
- Removed by Reddit's filters14%
- Held by AutoModerator5%
- Removed by moderators11%
- Deleted by the author1%
Where the fewest new posts stay up
- r/Bookkeeping85% removed or held
- r/sales79% removed or held
- r/vibecoding78% removed or held
- r/EntrepreneurRideAlong76% removed or held
- r/RemoteJobs75% removed or held
44,200 recent posts across 120 subreddits. Up to the last 400 posts in each, from the Arctic Shift archive of public Reddit data, sorted by what happened to each one. Updated October 4, 2026. Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.
Lifestyle and advice
23.1M members · Beginner
r/LifeProTipsA 23 million member, text-only board for practical tips. Strict title format, a hidden karma minimum, and moderators who remove anything that is advice, common sense or a product plug.
3.2M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/frugalmalefashionA 3.2 million member deal board for menswear. Sales, codes and markdowns only, posted by shoppers. Companies are banned outright and mods remove a lot.
2.2M members · Beginner
r/getdisciplinedA 2.2 million member, text-only board where people ask for help with procrastination, habits and routines. Supportive in the comments, heavily filtered at the door.
2M members · Beginner
r/TooAfraidToAskTwo million people asking the questions they would not ask out loud: sex, bodies, dating, race and culture. Open on topic, strict on title wording and flair.
2M members · Mixed
r/veganTwo million members and an ethics-first view of veganism. Talkative, emotional and protective of its purpose, with AutoModerator holding a large share of new posts.
1.9M members · Beginner
r/beautyA huge, text-only advice board for specific hair, skin, makeup and nail questions. Friendly in the comments, strict at the door, with zero tolerance for promotion.
676k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/ABraThatFitsA long-running bra fitting help desk. People post six measurements and get patient, specific sizing advice. Text only, kind to beginners, strict about creeps and brands.
646k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/veganrecipesA friendly, photo-led recipe exchange for vegan cooking. Three flairs, a few plain rules, and a written recipe required with every picture.
11k members · Mixed
r/restaurants
A small, loosely run board where diners and restaurant workers trade gripes, questions and local picks. Low traffic, no published rules, and a steady stream of vendor pitches.
Finance and money
21.9M members · Beginner
r/personalfinance
Reddit's biggest money help desk: text-only questions about debt, retirement, credit and housing, answered from a shared wiki and moderated very tightly.
2.9M members · Beginner
r/povertyfinanceMoney advice and moral support for people who are short on rent, behind on bills or starting from zero. Protective of its posters and strict about judgment.
1.6M members · Mixed
r/CreditCardsA 1.5 million member, text-only forum for US credit card questions: which card to get next, how issuer rules work and what rewards are worth. No referrals, no self-promotion.
1.3M members · Beginner
r/passive_incomeOver a million people looking for ways to earn without a second job. Mostly beginners asking where to start, plus a steady stream of referral links and spam.
477k members · Mixed
r/taxTaxpayers with a problem and tax professionals who answer for free. Detailed, sober, mostly US, and closed to anyone trying to pick up clients.
181k members · Beginner
r/SavingMoney
A beginner-friendly room for people trying to save on ordinary incomes. Loosely moderated, light on rules, and tired of referral codes.
97k members · Intermediate
r/fintechA mid-sized forum of about 97,000 on payments, banking tech, compliance and crypto rails. Lightly moderated, founder-heavy, and tired of posts that sound like marketing.
86k members · Intermediate
r/Bookkeeping
Working bookkeepers talking clients, cleanups, QuickBooks and running a practice. Friendly once you are in, but most first posts are held for moderator review.
36k members · Mixed
r/PredictionsMarketsA young, fast growing board for people trading event contracts. Trader stories, strategy backtests and platform complaints, with no published rules and plenty of referral spam.
12k members · Mixed
r/PredictionMarketsA small, loosely run board for Polymarket and Kalshi traders. Screenshots of wins and losses, bot builders, and a lot of referral codes nobody polices.
AI
11.7M members · Mixed
r/ChatGPTThe biggest AI forum on Reddit: memes and generated images at the top, bug reports and product complaints underneath. Easy to post in, hard to get noticed in.
840k members · Intermediate to advanced
r/LocalLLaMAThe main room for people running language models on their own hardware. Technical, benchmark-driven, fond of open weights and quick to call out a shill.
617k members · Intermediate
r/ChatGPTProA large forum for paying ChatGPT users: model limits, plan changes, Codex and workflow talk. Meant for professional use and moderated harder than most AI subreddits.
455k members · Mixed
r/AI_AgentsClose to half a million builders and curious users comparing notes on agent frameworks, harnesses and production failures. Text only, flaired, and heavily filtered.
434k members · Mixed
r/ClaudeCodeAn unofficial, very busy room for people who use Claude Code: project showcases, usage limit complaints, model gossip and memes. Friendly to builders, tired of slop.
370k members · Mixed
r/vibecodingA fast-growing show and tell board for things built with AI coding tools. Launch posts are the norm here, but most new posts get held before anyone sees them.
237k members · Mixed
r/LocalLLMA busy, loosely moderated room for running language models at home. Hardware questions, rig photos and weekend projects, with more patience for beginners than most AI subreddits.
236k members · Intermediate
r/automationA 235,000 member subreddit on workflow automation, from n8n and Zapier builds to AI agents. Gated by a 100 karma minimum, and around 4 in 10 posts are removed.
174k members · Intermediate
r/LLMDevsA busy builders' forum for people shipping LLM apps, agents and local models. Open source show-and-tell is the main event, despite a rule against self-promotion.
128k members · Intermediate
r/AgentsOfAIA young, fast-growing room for people building and arguing about AI agents. Half show and tell, half industry gossip, with a hard filter on links in posts.
109k members · Intermediate
r/LangChainA lightly moderated developer forum for LangChain, LangGraph, RAG and agent builders. Easy to post in, crowded with project launches, and the questions get the attention.
81k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/AiAutomationsA loosely moderated board for people building and selling AI automations to small businesses. Part build log, part agency support group, part classifieds.
313 members · Beginner to intermediate · Run by us
r/ai_toolsA small community of about 300 people sharing and asking about AI tools. Quiet, friendly, and open to builders who say the product is theirs.
Home and living
5.8M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/MealPrepSundayNearly six million people posting photos of their weekly batch cooking, with the recipe underneath. Friendly, picture-led, and strict about ads and missing recipes.
3.1M members · Beginner
r/homeownersThree million homeowners asking what that crack, leak or neighbour means and what to do about it. Friendly to beginners, photo-heavy, and closed to promotion of any kind.
3M members · Beginner
r/malelivingspaceThree million members looking at photos of where men live, from first apartments to post-divorce fresh starts. Supportive, quick with a joke, and closed to advertising.
1.4M members · Beginner
r/HomeDecorating
A 1.4 million member photo board where people post a room and ask what it needs. Friendly, opinionated, and guarded by an AutoModerator that holds about a quarter of posts.
1.2M members · Beginner
r/femalelivingspace1.2 million people sharing photos of real homes lived in by women, and asking how to make a room feel finished. Warm, photo-led, and firmly against ads and AI images.
1.1M members · Beginner
r/interiordecoratingA million-member photo board for room help: paint, rugs, furniture placement, wall art. Easy to post in, kind in tone, with one hard rule against linking your own blog or design business.
1M members · Beginner
r/FirstTimeHomeBuyerA million-member board where first-time buyers ask for advice and celebrate closing day with a photo, a price and a rate. Welcoming to buyers, closed to industry professionals.
889k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/googlehomeClose to 900,000 owners of Google Home and Nest speakers, displays and cameras. Mostly troubleshooting, lately a lot of frustration with Gemini, and lightly moderated.
245k members · Intermediate
r/HomeKitAbout 245,000 people running Apple Home setups: hubs, cameras, locks and automations. Practical, opinionated about Apple, and one of the few subreddits that publishes its karma gate.
Business and startups
5.3M members · Mixed
r/EntrepreneurReddit's biggest business forum, over five million members. Text only, professional in tone, and closed to anyone who has not earned comment karma inside it first.
2.5M members · Beginner
r/smallbusiness
A 2.5 million member question and answer board for people starting and running small businesses. Questions only, text only, and openly hostile to market research.
819k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/SaaSA huge, fast founder board where everyone is building and few are buying. Promotion is allowed when it helps the reader, and moderators remove a lot of what does not.
732k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/EntrepreneurRideAlongFounders documenting a business as they build it: numbers, mistakes, updates. Very busy, friendlier to named projects than most, and hard on new accounts.
242k members · Beginner
r/thesidehustleA loose board for side income ideas, for-hire posts and small pitches. The rules allow self-promotion, but AutoModerator and the mods still remove about a third of posts.
220k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/microsaasA high-volume room where solo founders post their small SaaS products, early numbers and distribution problems. Text posts only in practice, few rules, and a lot of competition for attention.
206k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/ycombinatorA text-only forum about Y Combinator, its companies and applying to it. Mostly early founders asking questions, with AutoModerator holding a large share of new posts.
192k members · Beginner
r/Entrepreneurs
A loosely moderated business forum of about 190,000. Easy to post in, text only, very busy, and most posts get two replies or fewer.
140k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/micro_saasA fast, loosely moderated board where solo founders show small SaaS products and ask for feedback. Easy to post in, hard to get noticed in.
47k members · Beginner
r/alphaandbetausersA notice board where founders and indie developers post apps for alpha and beta testing. Open to almost anyone, very high volume, and most posts get no replies.
39k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/llc
A small, practical room for forming and running a US LLC, heavy on non-US founders, EINs and bank accounts. New accounts and outside links are removed automatically.
37k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/BusinessownersA small, loosely run forum where owners ask about payments, books and staffing, surrounded by service sellers pitching them. Promotion is allowed and it shows.
35k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/smallbusinessUSA 35,000 member advice forum meant for owners of existing American small businesses. Text only, flair on every post, and a standing warning against pitches.
10k members · Intermediate to advanced · Run by us
r/ExperiencedFoundersA small, quiet subreddit for founders with three or more years behind them. Mostly text questions about raising money, hiring and running a company.
Health and wellness
5M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/SkincareAddictionFive million members asking about routines, acne and products, with a science-minded wiki behind it. Kind in the comments, and the mods remove most new posts.
2.5M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/30PlusSkinCareA 2.4 million member skincare board for people over 30. Half photos, half text, relaxed about cosmetic treatments and firm about selfies, diagnosis requests and promotion.
911k members · Mixed
r/BiohackersNearly a million people trading supplement stacks, peptide protocols and health research. Busy, curious, loosely moderated, and gated against new accounts.
620k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/SupplementsA big, busy board where people compare notes on magnesium, creatine, vitamin D and sleep stacks. Open to beginners, hands-on mods, and a ban waiting for marketers.
545k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/PlantBasedDietHalf a million people eating plants for their health. Recipes, bloodwork wins and beginner questions, in a calm room that wants the full recipe in the comments.
294k members · Beginner
r/glutenfree
A friendly, lightly moderated board for people who cannot eat gluten. Product finds, product gripes, recipes and newly diagnosed questions, mostly with a photo.
189k members · Mixed
r/Microbiome
A gut health board that calls itself science based. New research links sit next to long personal symptom stories, and the comments are patient and skeptical of products.
160k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/whoopThe user forum for the Whoop strap: recovery scores, sleep data, band questions and membership gripes. Easy to post in once your account clears a low bar.
134k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/BiohackingIn practice a peptide and GLP-1 forum: before and after photos, dosing questions and stack talk. Fast, supportive, light on moderation, closed to new accounts.
120k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/redlighttherapyA buyer's forum for red light panels, masks and handhelds. Mostly newcomers asking what to buy and how to use it. Light rules, no advertising, no medical advice.
38k members · Beginner
r/cosmeticsurgery
A small, fast-growing forum where people post photos and ask what to get done, how recovery is going and which surgeon to trust. Kind replies, very little moderation.
12k members · Beginner
r/HealthTechA small subreddit that has drifted from healthcare IT news into consumer health gadgets: wearables, smart scales, red light devices and founders testing app ideas.
7.2k members · Beginner
r/telehealth
A small, unruled board where patients ask which online clinics are legit, vent about billing and missed prescriptions, and a few operators ask business questions.
Gaming and sports
3.7M members · Intermediate
r/MMAThe main MMA subreddit, 3.7 million strong. Fight clips, news and fighter quotes, heavily moderated, with standalone opinions pushed into daily threads.
595k members · Beginner
r/sportsbettingA fast, loud feed of bet slip screenshots: parlays, results and bad beats. Easy to post in, hard to get noticed in, and closed to Discord or Telegram plugs.
458k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/mtgThe general Magic: The Gathering room. Lightly moderated, heavy on Commander, rules questions and new players, with a ban on AI art and a gate for new accounts.
342k members · Mixed
r/esports
The business and industry side of competitive gaming: orgs, leagues, sponsorship, jobs. Not for gameplay clips, team recruitment or tournament ads.
332k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/gamblingA general gambling board of slot wins, betslips, casino complaints and beginner questions. Casual and jokey, with mods who spend their time clearing out casino promotion.
82k members · Mixed
r/counterstrike2A loose, fast-growing Counter-Strike 2 subreddit with four short rules and very little removed. Clips, cheater complaints, skins questions and tech help.
78k members · Beginner
r/onlinegamblingA small, noisy board for online casino and sweepstakes players. Win screenshots, is this site legit questions and a constant fight against referral spam.
Software and DevOps
3.3M members · Mixed
r/webdevReddit's main room for web developers, front end and back end. Heavily moderated: projects are for Saturdays only, and new or low-karma accounts are removed on arrival.
1.5M members · Intermediate to advanced
r/cybersecurityA 1.5 million member forum for working security professionals: news, vulnerabilities, business security questions and careers. Heavily filtered and wary of marketers.
1.3M members · Intermediate
r/sysadminThe big general room for working IT administrators. Text only, blunt, heavy on Windows and Microsoft 365 problems, workplace rants and career talk, and closed to vendor posts.
574k members · Advanced
r/netsecA curated link feed of original security research for working practitioners. Aggressively moderated, quiet in the comments, and closed to tool launches and questions.
516k members · Intermediate to advanced
r/devops
A half-million practitioners talking shop about infrastructure, CI/CD and on-call life. Text-first, skeptical of vendors, and hard on new accounts.
141k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/nocodeA help and show-and-tell board for people building apps without code, now mostly with AI builders. Promotion is allowed if disclosed, but filters catch over half of posts.
59k members · Intermediate
r/healthIT
A small, working room of Epic analysts, trainers and hospital IT staff. Career talk and EHR shop talk, a 100 comment karma gate, and no patience for vendor posts.
58k members · Intermediate to advanced
r/sre
A small, senior room for site reliability engineers: incidents, observability, on-call and careers. Lightly ruled, mostly text, and tired of AI incident tool pitches.
37k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/replitA community-run Replit board that works as an unofficial support queue. Billing shocks, publishing errors and agent costs dominate. Lightly moderated, often angry.
35k members · Intermediate
r/EngineeringManagers
A small, earnest room of about 35,000 where engineering managers and people who want the job talk through team problems. Text posts, light rules, few mods.
16k members · Intermediate to advanced
r/SecOpsDailyA security news feed for blue teamers. Most posts are structured summaries of the day's threats and advisories, with light moderation and thin comment sections.
Marketing and SEO
2M members · Intermediate
r/marketingNearly two million marketers talking about careers, burnout and the state of the trade. Text-only in spirit, heavily gated, and the hardest place on Reddit to market anything.
173k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/AskMarketingA question-only marketing forum where students, founders and working marketers ask for advice. Text posts, patient answers, and a spam rule with one warning.
159k members · Intermediate
r/GrowthHackingAbout 159,000 founders and growth marketers trading experiments, tool stacks and channel results. Strict rules on paper, light moderation in practice, low engagement.
86k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/coldemailAround 86,000 people who run cold outreach, talking deliverability, lists, copy and tools. Text only, helpful to beginners, and crowded with vendors.
84k members · Mixed
r/seogrowthA text-only SEO forum of about 84,000 where questions get real replies and moderators remove close to half of what is posted.
17k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/gtmengineeringA young, fast-growing board for people who build outbound and sales data systems, or want to. Tool talk, career questions and hiring posts, with no published rules.
15k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/ContentMarketing
A small, lightly moderated marketing forum. Mostly text posts about AI, search visibility and repurposing content, with a fair amount of spam left in the feed.
9.7k members · Intermediate
r/aeoA small, young subreddit about getting brands cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews. No published rules, plenty of tool builders, and rising suspicion of plugs.
8.4k members · Intermediate
r/SEO_LLMA small, young subreddit where SEOs compare notes on getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers. No written rules, but links get held.
Careers and work
1.5M members · Mixed
r/recruitinghellJob seekers trading stories of ghosting, absurd job ads and endless interview rounds. Meant to be darkly funny, now mostly tired, and one strike on spam.
1.3M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/Accounting1.3 million accountants, students and career changers talking jobs, firms, busy season and the CPA. Text-heavy, frank, fond of memes, and closed to self-promotion.
607k members · Intermediate
r/salesA text-only room of working salespeople talking comp, quotas, careers and bad bosses. You need 10 comment karma earned inside the subreddit to post, and promotion means a permanent ban.
585k members · Beginner
r/RemoteJobsA big, noisy board split between remote job listings and job hunt talk. Heavily filtered: fewer than one in four new posts stays up. Scam suspicion is the default.
289k members · Mixed
r/managersNearly 290,000 managers, new and seasoned, plus the people they manage, working through real workplace situations. Long posts, blunt replies, and little patience for spam or surveys.
241k members · Intermediate
r/humanresourcesA peer room for people who work in HR, not a help desk for employees. Heavily moderated, text-first, and every title needs a location tag in square brackets.
174k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/AWSCertificationsA study hall for people sitting AWS exams. Pass announcements, prep plans and resource questions, with a hard line on exam dumps and voucher trading.
75k members · Intermediate
r/FPandAA 75,000 member room of corporate finance people talking careers, budget season and forecasting. Dry, candid, text-only in practice, and moderated far harder than its size suggests.
32k members · Intermediate
r/procurementA working buyers' forum for sourcing, supplier headaches and procurement careers. Helpful to peers, wary of vendors, who get one monthly thread.
15k members · Mixed
r/expertnetworksA small, candid forum about paid expert consulting calls: rates, screening, getting paid, and working at the networks. Three short rules and little moderation.
Hobbies and entertainment
1.4M members · Beginner to intermediate
r/PokemonTCGA fast, image-heavy room for showing off Pokemon card pulls and collections. Friendly to a lucky pack, hostile to scalpers, and closed to price checks and promotion.
651k members · Beginner
r/90sA 650,000 member nostalgia room for photos, clips and "who remembers this" threads about the decade. Easygoing, image-led, and strict about AI content and selling.
193k members · Mixed
r/podcastingA working room for people who make podcasts. Text only, practical, and strict about keeping show links and product pitches inside the weekly threads.
132k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/sportscardsA fast, photo-led board where collectors show pulls, ask what a card is worth and sell singles. Loosely moderated, flair on every post, quick blunt replies.
Local
715k members · Beginner
r/AskAnAustralianOver 700,000 people asking Australians about daily life, culture and local gripes. Text questions only, quick blunt answers, little patience for politics or ads.
561k members · Beginner
r/AtlantaThe main subreddit for Atlanta and the metro area: questions, recommendations, traffic, news and photos. Heavily policed by AutoModerator, with no room for promotion.
264k members · Beginner
r/SaltLakeCityThe main subreddit for Salt Lake City and the valley: photos, recommendations, local news and what was that noise. Relaxed, but strict about dates in titles and ads.
Ecommerce
681k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/ecommerceAbout 680,000 store owners and would-be sellers asking how to sell more online. Text only, link-averse, and gated by separate post and comment karma minimums.
380k members · Mixed
r/shopifyThe main Shopify help forum: 380,000 merchants and developers swapping fixes and complaints. Text only, karma gated, and closed to app pitches and research posts.
291k members · Beginner
r/dropshipping
A beginner-heavy board of about 290,000 people starting or running dropshipping stores. Easy to post in, full of pitches, and suspicious of revenue screenshots and gurus.
52k members · Beginner to intermediate
r/ShopifyeCommerceA smaller, looser Shopify forum of about 52,000. Few rules and light moderation, but Reddit's own filters remove four in ten posts.
52k members · Intermediate
r/woocommerceA text-only help forum for people running and building WooCommerce stores. Detailed, technical answers, and a flat ban on promotion in posts and comments.
5.2k members · Mixed
r/bigcommerceA small, quiet forum for merchants and developers on the BigCommerce platform. Lightly moderated, low on votes, and alert to seeded marketing posts.
Trades and construction
594k members · Mixed
r/ConstructionNearly 600,000 tradespeople, supers and project managers swapping jobsite photos, jokes and career advice. Built for professionals, closed to DIY and to anyone selling.
188 members · Beginner to intermediate · Run by us
r/BlueCollarProsA small, young subreddit for tradespeople, contractors and the people who run the office side. Low traffic, short posts and few removals.
Insurance and legal
r/InsuranceOther
23.7M members · Beginner
r/explainlikeimfive23 million people asking for plain explanations of complicated things. Text only, friendly in tone, and moderated harder than almost anywhere on Reddit.
210k members · Mixed
r/TrueUnpopularOpinionA fast, combative opinion board where politics and gender arguments dominate. Text only, lightly censored by design, with a word filter and a long rule list.