Are there published rules I need to follow?
The public rules page showed no rules, and the moderator one-liner only asks that posts stay relevant to saving digital heritage and digital archiving.
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r/Archiveteam rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/Archiveteam: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
- Members
- 21,700
- Community age
- Created Sep 2011, 15 years
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- MediumFrom the rules, not from removal counts
Checked November 1, 2026 from the community's public Reddit pages:
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Rule summary
No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-11-01.
Works well
- Share a preservation problem you hit while building something, and ask how this community would keep the data alive
- Post a tool or open dataset that helps people archive at-risk material, with a plain explanation of what it does
- Write about a shutdown or deletion you witnessed and what was saved or lost
- Ask for advice on archiving formats or long term storage for a project you are building
- Offer help or volunteer effort on preservation work before you mention anything you sell
Avoid
- Posting about your product with no connection to saving digital heritage, which the moderator one-liner says to skip
- Treating the lack of published rules as permission to spam, since the moderator still expects relevance
- Dropping a link with no context about archiving or preservation
- Writing a post that could be about any community, with nothing tied to digital archiving
- Assuming the rules page tells the whole story, when the moderator one-liner adds a relevance expectation on top
What r/Archiveteam Is For
This community is for Archive Team, which its own description calls a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. The group has been active since 2009 and focuses on catching shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions, then saving the history before it is lost forever. The people who post here care about preservation of digital material, so the room is full of people who think about what disappears from the internet and how to keep copies of it. There are no published rules on the community's public rules page, but the moderator one-liner asks that posts stay relevant to saving digital heritage and digital archiving.
What To Post
A good post here connects to the mission of saving digital heritage. If you are a founder, the honest move is to post something useful to archivists first, like a tool, a dataset, a preservation problem you ran into, or a question about how to keep data alive. If your product genuinely helps with archiving or preservation, say so plainly and tie it to that mission, because the moderator one-liner asks for relevance to saving digital heritage and digital archiving. Ask real questions, share what you learned, and let the community see you care about the same thing they do.
What To Avoid
The stated risk here is simple. The moderator one-liner says to keep posts relevant to saving digital heritage and digital archiving, so anything off that topic is the thing to avoid. There are no published rules that name removal reasons or bans, so I will not invent any. What I can say from the evidence is that a post with no connection to archiving or preservation is the clearest way to miss the mark.
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Common questions about r/Archiveteam
Can I promote my product here?
The evidence does not say, so the safe read is that anything promotional should be clearly relevant to the archiving mission or held back.
Are links allowed?
The evidence does not state a link policy, so lead with substance and only link when it genuinely serves the archiving discussion.
What about AI-generated content?
The evidence does not address AI content, so there is no stated rule either way.
What topics are on topic?
The description says the group catches wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and deletions, so anything about saving at-risk digital material fits the room.