r/Accounting rules, stats, and what to post

r/Accounting is a community primarily for accountants and aspiring accountants to learn about and discuss their career choice. The description says advice and questions are welcome, so the normal traffic here is people asking about the profession, sharing career experiences, and helping each other figure out the path. The rules make clear this is a peer community, not a marketplace. Nobody here signed up to be pitched, and the moderators state plainly that they remove posts that promote products or services.

The rule that decides most things here is “No self-promotion, advertising, solicitations, or research ideas”. It bans business solicitations, referrals, job postings, market research ideas, and posting your own blog, website, or video channel. It also says the community expects users not to use the subreddit for financial gain, and it extends to private messaging people because of their comments. The rule “Respectful and civil” matters too, because it asks for patience and polite disagreements, and it allows harsh feedback as long as it never becomes insulting. The rule “Ethics” bans blatant violations of ethical rules, which matters in a community built around professional advice. Finally, “Duplicative posting” prohibits reposting content within a short period of time and meta posts meming off other posts, so check the feed before you post.

A good post here is a genuine question or a useful contribution with nothing attached to it. Ask something real about the profession, or share an honest observation from your own work that accountants can respond to. If you are a founder, come with curiosity about their world, like how they handle a messy workflow, and let the answers teach you. Keep any disagreement polite, because harsh is allowed but insulting is not. Check the feed first so you do not duplicate something posted recently.

The fastest way to get removed here is anything that looks like promotion. That means linking your own blog, website, or video channel, soliciting business, posting job ads, asking for referrals, or pitching a research idea. The rule on self-promotion also covers private messages, so do not DM members because of something they said here. Personal attacks will get you in trouble even when the disagreement itself was fair. And reposting content that was already posted within a short period of time is prohibited, so always check the feed first.

What stands out to me here is how far the self-promotion rule reaches, because it even covers private messages sent to people because of their comments. That tells me the moderators have seen every workaround and they are done playing. My honest read is that this is a room where you earn trust by being useful for a long time before you ever think about your own thing.