r/answers rules, stats, and what to post

This community is a place to ask reference questions and get factual answers back. The public description says it plainly, reference questions answered here. The rules flesh that out. People post questions that have a single, factual, definitive answer, like something you could look up or verify. The rules also name what does not belong, so advice questions, survey style questions, medical, legal, and political questions, tip of my tongue questions, and questions about Reddit itself all get pointed elsewhere. It reads like a plain utility community. People come with a question, people leave with an answer.

The rule that decides everything here is “Post title must be a question”, which says titles must only contain a question and any extra context goes in the body. Then there is “No Advice questions.”, which says this place is for reference questions with definitive answers, not questions where personal preference comes into play. “No Survey/DAE Questions.” pushes those over to /r/DAE or /r/AskReddit. “No Medical/Health Questions” and “No Legal Questions” ban those topics outright because the users are not guaranteed to be qualified professionals. “No Politics Questions.” bans political questions without a definitive answer. “No Unhelpful, Off-Topic, or Joke Answers or Questions.” applies to comments too, so a joke answer can get pulled even if your post was fine. “No Loaded Questions or Answers, And No Rants” bans questions built to steer people toward your answer. “No Reddit Questions” bans questions about Reddit itself. “No Tip-Of-My-Tongue Questions” sends those to /r/tipofmytongue. “No Impossible Question” bans anything nobody can know the answer to. And keep in mind “Moderator Discretion”, which reserves the right to remove anything at their discretion even when no other rule is broken.

A good post here is a single, clear question with one factual answer. The title is the question and nothing else, and any context goes in the body. Think questions like how something works, what something is called, or what a specific fact is. If your question has a definitive answer, it probably fits. If the answer depends on taste, opinion, or personal preference, it does not fit. As a founder, the honest play here is narrow and patient. Ask a genuine factual question when you actually need the answer, keep the title a clean question, and do not push a product. This is a community for answers, not for pitches.

The surest way to get removed is posting something that is not a question with a definitive answer. Advice questions get removed, and the rule explicitly includes relationship advice. Survey and DAE questions get removed. Medical, health, legal, and political questions get removed, and each of those rules suggests a better subreddit to use instead. Questions about Reddit get removed. Tip of my tongue questions, impossible questions, AMAs, loaded questions, and rants all get removed. Joke or off topic comments get removed. Trolling, shitposts, rude behavior, baiting, and passive aggressive posts are not allowed. And even if you dodge all of that, the moderators can still remove your post at their discretion.

This is one of the strictest communities I have written up, and I mean that as a compliment. The rules are so clear about what a definitive answer looks like that you basically have a checklist before you post. If your question only works when people share opinions, this is not your room, and the honest move is to find a community that wants opinions.