r/audioengineering rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for products, practices, and stories about the profession or hobby of recording, editing, and producing audio. The people here work on audio in some form, whether that is their job or their hobby, and the rules are built to keep the feed full of real discussion. The rules push questions and requests into dedicated places so the main feed stays informative. Posts should inform or facilitate discussion, which tells you the room values substance over self promotion. If you make or sell something for audio people, this is a room of practitioners, not a room of shoppers.

The rule that decides almost everything for a founder is “No Promoting or Requesting Services”. It removes any offering of services, promoting, giveaways, contests, surveys, or selling products, so a launch post or a discount code has no path to survival here. “Facilitate discussion” is the positive side of the same coin, because posts should inform or start conversation. “Posts Must Have Clear and Unambiguous Titles” matters more than you would think, since vague titles get removed and asked to resubmit. “Read the FAQ” removes questions the community has already answered many times. “Ask troubleshooting and setup questions in the Help Desk” and “Ask purchase and shopping questions in the Help Desk” move two whole categories of posts into the stickied threads. “No Critique Requests” sends feedback posts to other subreddits. “No Piracy” and “No Memes” round out the list, and both are easy to avoid.

A good post here informs or starts a discussion, and it does that without asking for anything in return. Share a lesson from your own work, a breakdown of how you solved a real audio problem, or a story from the practice of recording or producing. Write a title that says exactly what the post is about, because the rules remove ambiguous ones. Before you post anything that resembles a question, check the FAQ and the troubleshooting guide, because repeated questions get removed. If your post is really a purchase question, a setup question, or a critique request, it does not belong as a new post here at all. For a founder, the honest play is to participate as a practitioner first, share genuine knowledge, and let people find your product on their own.

The fastest removal is promotion. “No Promoting or Requesting Services” bans offering services, promoting, giveaways, contests, surveys, and selling products, so any post that smells like marketing is gone. Asking for critique of your mix or your music is also removed, because “No Critique Requests” sends that work to other subreddits. Troubleshooting, setup, and purchase questions belong in the Help Desk, and posting them as new threads breaks “Ask troubleshooting and setup questions in the Help Desk” or “Ask purchase and shopping questions in the Help Desk”. A question already covered by the FAQ will likely be removed under “Read the FAQ”. A vague title like “NEED HELP” fails “Posts Must Have Clear and Unambiguous Titles”. Memes go elsewhere under “No Memes”, and piracy talk is banned outright under “No Piracy”.

What stands out to me here is how much of the rulebook is about routing. This community has built an entire system, a FAQ, a troubleshooting guide, and two Help Desk threads, so that the main feed stays full of real discussion. If you are a founder in this space, that routing is your map: it tells you exactly which conversations happen where, and it tells you the main feed is reserved for people who show up to share, not to sell. My honest read is that this is one of the clearest no-promotion rooms on Reddit, and respecting that fully is the only way in.