r/RemoteJobs: rules, karma requirements and posting culture
A 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.
Remote Jobs · Open on Reddit
- Members
- 585k
- Created
- 2012
- New posts a day
- 54.7
- Comments on a typical post
- 3
- New posts removed
- 75%
The short answer
r/RemoteJobs publishes no karma or account age requirement, but something is gating posts hard: only about 23% of new posts in our sample stayed up, with roughly 46% removed by Reddit's filters and 29% held by AutoModerator. Every post carries one of two flairs, Job Posts or Discussions. Job listings need a pay range, must be permanent or longer than six months, and are capped at two a week. Posts looking for work are banned by the first rule, and readers treat any vague listing as a possible scam.
Who posts here
Most discussion posts come from people starting a remote job search with no idea where to look: career changers, students, people asking what pays and what is a scam. Replies are short, around 13 words, and practical, though they can be sharp about sloppy writing or unrealistic hopes. No knowledge is assumed, but a post that amounts to "I need a job" breaks the first rule.
- Job seekers at every stage, many of them months and hundreds of applications into a search.
- Career changers from trades, teaching, sales and healthcare asking which remote roles they could move into.
- People outside the US looking for work that pays in dollars.
- Recruiters, small business owners and job board operators posting listings and weekly lead roundups.
- Regulars who check listings against the rules and call out anything that looks like a scam.
Karma and account requirements
What it takes to get a post through in r/RemoteJobs.
| Karma | Not stated publicly. About 29% of posts in our sample were held by AutoModerator, so a filter exists, but nothing published says what it checks. |
|---|---|
| Account age | Not stated publicly. |
| Post flair | Every post in the sample carries one. The split is close to even between Job Posts and Discussions. |
| Pay range | A job listing has to state hourly or annual pay. Commenters quote this rule at listings that skip it.Mods' wording: “Job postings must include a reasonable range of hourly wage or annual salary” |
| Job type | Permanent roles or contracts longer than six months only. No short gigs, and no adult industry jobs.Mods' wording: “only permanent jobs or >6 month contracts” |
| Posting frequency | No more than two job postings a week. A link to an outside site is fine, but the post has to carry the same details.Mods' wording: “No spam or excessive posting (more than two job postings weekly)” |
What you can post
| Post type | Subreddit setting | Share of recent posts |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Allowed | 66% |
| Link | Allowed | 30% |
| Image | Allowed | 4% |
| Video | Allowed | 0% |
| Poll | Allowed | 0% |
Post flairs in use
- Job Posts 51%
- Discussions 50%
What happens to a new post
Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.
- Stayed up23%
- Removed by Reddit's filters46%
- Held by AutoModerator29%
- Deleted by the author2%
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
No job-seeking posts of any kind. DO NOT POST "FOR HIRE" or DETAILS ABOUT YOUR OWN CAREER OR SKILLS.
- 2
No postings of short term or individual gigs permitted-- only permanent jobs or >6 month contracts
- 3
Job postings must include a reasonable range of hourly wage or annual salary
- 4
Job postings may contain a link to an external site but the post must always contain the same info
- 5
No adult entertainment industry jobs permitted
- 6
No spam or excessive posting (more than two job postings weekly)
- 7
No posting of scams or suspected scams
These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.
The culture
r/RemoteJobs has about 585,000 members and sees around 55 new posts a day, most of which never appear. What survives falls into two piles. Job Posts are listings and roundups of leads with pay attached. Discussions are the job hunt itself: where to look, whether a platform is legit, whether a pay cut is worth it to stop commuting.
About two thirds of posts are text and close to a third are links. The median post runs about 90 words. The mood is tired and wary. People have been applying for months, and the threads that travel are either proof that the search can end or a warning about a company that wasted someone's time.
The live argument is trust. One popular thread simply asked whether all remote job ads are scams. Listings that pay through personal payment apps, ask for videos, hire "worldwide" for a one-person business or leave out the salary get picked apart in the comments and reported.
What lands
- A success story with numbers. The top recent post was an offer after more than 300 applications and 32 interviews, with a blunt list of what worked and what did not.
- A concrete trade-off with both sides laid out, like a lower salary for fully remote work against a daily commute. That one drew over 500 comments.
- A search tactic people have not heard, backed by your own experience of it working.
- Dated roundups of job leads where every line has the employer, the role and the pay.
- A warning about a specific hiring platform, with the hours you lost and what happened.
What gets removed or ignored
- Job-seeking posts. The first rule bans "for hire" posts and details about your own career or skills, in capitals.
- Listings with no pay range, short gigs and one-off tasks.
- More than two job postings in a week from the same poster.
- Scams and suspected scams, which the rules ban. Readers report them.
- Most of everything else, before a human sees it. Roughly three quarters of posts in our sample were removed or held, and no moderator removals were recorded. The filters do the work.
The unwritten rules
- Expect your post to be held. Getting through is the exception, and our data does not show what gets a post released.
- A listing needs the employer, the location limits, the hours, the pay and how the hire is classified. Missing details get read as a scam, not an oversight.
- Asking a question about the search is fine. Announcing that you need work is not, even though some of those posts slip through.
- Comments almost never carry links, about 2% do. A comment pointing to your own job board or profile stands out.
- Write carefully. Commenters will tell you bad grammar costs you interviews, and they do it bluntly.
Self-promotion
There is no rule that names self-promotion. The nearest are the ban on spam and excessive posting, capped at two job postings a week, and the requirement that a post linking to an outside site contains the same information as the link. In practice job boards and aggregators do post here, usually as lead roundups under the Job Posts flair, and the ones that do well put the listings and pay in the post itself. Bare link posts announcing a job search tool show up too and get no response. With three quarters of posts filtered, anything that looks like an ad has poor odds of appearing at all.
How people write here
- Typical post length
- 92 words
- Typical title length
- 8 words
- Titles phrased as a question
- 26%
- Typical comment length
- 13 words
- Comments that include a link
- 2%
- Posts that carry a flair
- 100%
When people post
- 0:00 UTC, 13
- 1:00 UTC, 8
- 2:00 UTC, 10
- 3:00 UTC, 7
- 4:00 UTC, 14
- 5:00 UTC, 15
- 6:00 UTC, 14
- 7:00 UTC, 19
- 8:00 UTC, 6
- 9:00 UTC, 11
- 10:00 UTC, 22
- 11:00 UTC, 16
- 12:00 UTC, 28
- 13:00 UTC, 25
- 14:00 UTC, 29
- 15:00 UTC, 19
- 16:00 UTC, 27
- 17:00 UTC, 17
- 18:00 UTC, 27
- 19:00 UTC, 22
- 20:00 UTC, 16
- 21:00 UTC, 15
- 22:00 UTC, 7
- 23:00 UTC, 13
New posts by hour of day, UTC.
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.
Most active posters
- u/michalcon293 posts
Most active commenters
- u/CanningJarhead18 comments
- u/MaskedFigurewho17 comments
- u/LqvishMqrs6 comments
- u/sread20186 comments
- u/stealthagents6 comments
Top keywords
The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/RemoteJobs.
- remote 79 posts
- remote job 25 posts
- job 58 posts
- jobs 40 posts
- hiring 34 posts
- remote jobs 15 posts
- experience 44 posts
- applying 13 posts
- apply 15 posts
- roles 15 posts
- remotely 10 posts
- lead 15 posts
- companies 17 posts
- leads 13 posts
- engineer 13 posts
- remote roles 5 posts
- software engineer 7 posts
- remote role 5 posts
- hiring senior 4 posts
- role 15 posts
- worldwide 6 posts
- sourcegraph 3 posts
- jobs hiring 3 posts
- flowsearch 3 posts
- camunda 3 posts
- job leads 4 posts
- usa 8 posts
- software 14 posts
- listings 7 posts
- opportunity 10 posts
- applicants 5 posts
- skills 11 posts
- usd 7 posts
- success manager 3 posts
- senior 9 posts
- opportunities 9 posts
- fully remote 5 posts
- applications 8 posts
- based 14 posts
- requirements 8 posts
Posts that did well
- DON'T GIVE UP! Got a job offer after +300 applications and 32 interviews939 upvotes · 174 comments · Discussions
- Would you take a $15K pay cut to go fully remote?734 upvotes · 554 comments · Discussions
- A remote job search tip I never see425 upvotes · 45 comments · Discussions
- Beware of micro1145 upvotes · 50 comments · Discussions
- remote jobs 9/8135 upvotes · 62 comments · Job Posts
- Is there actually any success in applying through LinkedIn and similar platforms?122 upvotes · 98 comments · Discussions
- How to find a remote job as a 50+ year old guy101 upvotes · 60 comments · Discussions
- [Hiring] Customer Onboarding Support Assistant74 upvotes · 161 comments · Job Posts
Common questions
How much karma do you need to post in r/RemoteJobs?
No number is published. Only about 23% of new posts in our sample stayed up. Around 46% were removed by Reddit's filters and 29% were held by AutoModerator, so there is a filter, but nothing public says whether it checks karma, account age or something else.
Can I promote my job board or hiring tool in r/RemoteJobs?
The rules do not mention self-promotion, only spam and a limit of two job postings a week. Roundups of real listings with pay ranges written into the post are tolerated and sometimes do well. A bare link to a tool gets ignored, and most posts never clear the filters.
Can I post that I am looking for a remote job in r/RemoteJobs?
No. The first rule bans job-seeking posts of any kind, including "for hire" posts and details about your own career or skills. Ask a specific question about the search under the Discussions flair instead.
What does a job listing need in r/RemoteJobs?
A pay range, hourly or annual. The role has to be permanent or a contract longer than six months, not a short gig, and not in the adult industry. If you link to an outside site, put the same information in the post, and keep to two listings a week.
Data as of October 4, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.
