r/BackgroundCheckGuide rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for people who want to talk about how background checks actually work. The public description covers three things: methods for performing background checks, reviews of background check sites, and the morality of doing background checks in the first place. So the room holds a mix of people running checks for real reasons, people comparing which sites to use, and people debating whether a check is fair or creepy. It is a discussion community, not a marketplace, and the rules make clear it is full of people with genuine problems who want genuine effort in return.

Three rules here will end a marketing-adjacent post fast. The first is “No advertising”, which bans advertising outright. The second is “No self-promotion”, which means you cannot promote your own thing even if you dress it up as a question or a review. The third is “No AI generated content”, which bans posts and comments made with AI tools, including the trick of asking ChatGPT about someone's post and pasting the answer. Two more rules matter if you stray off the marketing path. “No Doxing or sharing personal information” bans providing, requesting, or volunteering to find personal information like addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, and family connections. “Help me find a person” bans posts asking the community to locate someone unless they are tied to a legitimate missing person's report or media coverage.

A good post here is a genuine contribution to the discussion the description promises. Share your own experience with a background check method, compare background check sites based on what you actually saw when using them, or open a question about the ethics of screening in a specific situation like hiring or renting. Write every word yourself, because AI content is banned. Keep it general and never include anyone's personal details, so no real names tied to addresses, phone numbers, or workplaces. If you are a founder, the honest play is to participate as a knowledgeable member of the conversation about how checks work and where sites fall short, and let people ask you questions rather than steering them to your product.

The fastest way to get removed is to promote anything. A link to your background check site, a soft mention of your own product, or a review that happens to be of your own tool all fall under “No advertising” and “No self-promotion”. Sharing or asking for personal information is the most serious mistake here, because it puts real people at risk from stalkers. That means no addresses, no phone numbers, no workplaces, and no offering to look someone up. Asking the community to help find a specific person gets removed unless you can point to a real missing person's report or news coverage. And do not paste AI output into this community in any form, because the moderators state plainly that AI is unreliable and the members here put in genuine effort.

The “No AI generated content” rule here is one of the strictest I have seen spelled out, and it tells you exactly who this room is for: real people with real problems, not content farms. I also respect that the doxxing rule exists at all, because a background check community could easily slide into something ugly without it. If you show up here, leave the funnel at the door and just be a person who knows the topic.