r/ChatGPTPro: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

The stated bar is professional and advanced use, and popular threads assume you know the plan tiers, model names, effort settings and how Codex differs from Chat. Plenty of basic troubleshooting still gets posted. Some of it stays up, but questions the help centre could answer are named in the rules as removable, and Question & Advice is the flair mods remove most.

• Plus and Pro subscribers tracking what their plan gets them this week.
• Developers using Codex and agents for real projects and watching their allowance burn.
• Knowledge workers who built workflows, custom GPTs or integrations for their team.
• Tool builders sharing a script or app, who are expected to disclose it and show something ChatGPT cannot do alone.
• Students and casual users asking setup questions, who are the most likely to be removed.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/ChatGPTPro.

What you can post

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

• Stayed up63%
• Removed by Reddit's filters20%
• Removed by moderators17%
• Deleted by the author<1%

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.

The rules, in the mods' words

1. 1

   Respectful and appropriate behavior

   ㅤ The following violations will be removed and warned: - Targeted insults, personal attacks, belittling. - Discrimination (racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, misogyny, etc.). - Advocacy of violence. - Dissemination of personal data of other people without their consent.

2. 2

   Relevance and quality

   Content should meet a high-quality standard in this subreddit. Posts should refer to professional and advanced usage of ChatGPT. They should be original and not simply a rehash of information that is widely available elsewhere. If in doubt, we recommend that you discuss posts with the mods in advance. Duplicate posts, cross posts (shared with other communities), posts with repeated spelling errors, help requests that can be answered via help.openai.com, or low-quality content will be removed.

3. 3

   Spam, advertising and self-promotion

   ㅤ - Offering, selling and buying products (including prompts) and services for (monetary) consideration is prohibited. Self-promotion is permitted as long as it is not excessive and complies with Reddit's Self-Promotion Policy.

4. 4

   Linked websites

   ㅤ - The post title must correspond to the original headline of the linked medium. Opinions and questions to the community belong in the accompanying text or in comments below. - Posts that link to an article that is behind a paywall will be deleted unless the full text is posted in the comments or there is another way to read the content for free.

5. 5

   Memes

   ㅤ We aim to maintain a professional and productive environment, focused on the subreddit's purpose. Posts and comments containing memes will be removed.

6. 6

   Reddiquette

   ㅤ The Reddiquette applies.

7. 7

   No Solicitation

   Selling of services, or coupons are not welcome here. This is not a marketplace. This is a place to share knowledge and information on how to effectively use ChatGPT. Not a place for you to benefit selling your product. This includes ALL perplexity coupons.

These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.

The culture

r/ChatGPTPro was set up for people who use ChatGPT at work. The sidebar asks for workflows, not outputs: it says the mods do not want to see your story or your ad copy, they want to see how you use the tool professionally. About 617,000 people subscribe and there are close to 30 posts a day.

The current feed is less about technique and more about the product itself. The most upvoted posts are news and complaints about usage limits being cut, which model each tier can access, how fast a new model eats a weekly allowance, and custom GPTs being retired. Text posts are about 72% of what stays up, around 110 words, and nearly half of titles are questions.

The fault line is value for money. Subscribers on the expensive tiers compare notes on what they lost, others post about switching to a competitor, and a steady group answers with how they stretch an allowance. Underneath that there is a second tension, between the professional bar in the rules and the volume of everyday support questions that arrive anyway. The mods settle it by removing a lot. Our sample had no comments in it, so this guide says little about how replies sound.

What lands

• News about a plan, limit or model change, posted quickly with the source linked.
• A clear explanation that corrects a common misunderstanding, such as which effort setting actually routes to which model.
• A detailed complaint from a long-time builder about a feature being retired, with what the replacements fail to do.
• Open questions to paying users about what they use the top model for, especially outside coding.
• Usage reports with specifics: plan, model, effort level, how long the allowance lasted.

What gets removed or ignored

• Requests for a free or shared Plus subscription, and anything that reads like trading accounts or invites.
• Basic support questions and one-word or vague titles. Question & Advice accounts for the largest share of mod removals.
• Generic prompt and productivity posts that repeat widely available advice, including ones written like a blog intro.
• Tool and project promotion that does not clear the sidebar's test of offering something ChatGPT cannot do.
• Off-topic discussion posts, memes and curiosities about chatbot quirks.

The unwritten rules

• State your plan, the model and the surface: Chat, Work, Codex, desktop or mobile. Half the answers depend on it.
• If you built something, open with a disclosure and spend the post on what you learned. Posts framed that way stay up where bare launches do not.
• Do not post the same thing in several AI subreddits. Crossposts are named in the rules as removable.
• Being removed here is normal, even for reasonable posts. Roughly one in six posts in the sample was taken down by a moderator. The rules suggest checking with the mods first if you are unsure.
• Brand new accounts cannot even comment. Build karma elsewhere before you try.

Self-promotion

The rules split this in two. Selling anything, including prompts, services and coupons, is banned outright, and the rules say this is not a marketplace. Self-promotion without a sale is permitted as long as it is not excessive and follows Reddit's own policy. The sidebar adds that not everything commercial is spam, but a tool has to offer something new that ChatGPT cannot replicate. In practice tool posts are removed often. The ones that survive disclose ownership in the first line, are free to use, and read as a write-up of a problem and a method.

How people write here

Typical post length

111 words

Typical title length

9 words

Titles phrased as a question

48%

Typical comment length

31 words

Comments that include a link

4%

Posts that carry a flair

100%

The regulars

The accounts that showed up most in our sample. Worth reading before you post: they set the tone, and they are usually the first to reply.

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/ChatGPTPro.

• chatgpt 154 posts
• pro 74 posts
• codex 50 posts
• astra 36 posts
• sol 34 posts
• usage 47 posts
• chat 51 posts
• chatgpt pro 20 posts
• gpt 27 posts
• openai 29 posts
• chats 20 posts
• chatgpt plus 14 posts
• plan 39 posts
• claude 35 posts
• limits 22 posts
• plus 31 posts
• limit 22 posts
• model 36 posts
• dots 13 posts
• usage limits 10 posts
• luna 10 posts
• gpt-6 sol 7 posts
• access 30 posts
• subscription 20 posts
• files 21 posts
• task 22 posts
• allowance 10 posts
• project 32 posts
• browser 19 posts
• credits 16 posts
• pro plan 9 posts
• dot 11 posts
• models 23 posts
• prompt 21 posts
• gpt-6 9 posts
• openai support 6 posts
• chatgpt app 6 posts
• conversation 19 posts
• chat gpt 8 posts
• mode 16 posts

Posts that did well

• $200 plan's usage will be cut in half today366 upvotes · 208 comments · Research & News
• Napoleon's 217-Year-Old Mysterious Letter Cracked Using AI In 6 Hours350 upvotes · 54 comments · Research & News
• GPT-6 Astra is not a model for Plus users.305 upvotes · 184 comments · Discussion
• GPT-6 Astra usage200 upvotes · 97 comments · Coding & Agents
• GPT-6 (Astra) in Chat is available *only* at the Pro effort setting156 upvotes · 52 comments · Discussion
• Astra 6, Sol 6, and Luna 6 - looks like Terra is out135 upvotes · 52 comments · Research & News
• GPT 6.1 "Near Astra" and Usage limit in Plus and Pro105 upvotes · 80 comments · Question & Advice
• Is GPT-6 Pro actually a separate model, or just GPT-6 Astra in Pro mode?81 upvotes · 41 comments · Discussion

Common questions