r/Barcelona rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who live in Barcelona, and the description says so in three languages, Catalan, Spanish, and English, which tells you the room itself is multilingual. The rules add detail about who it serves: residents, not visitors. Rule 1, “Most questions (tourism,newcomers) go in r/AskBarcelona // La majoria de preguntes: r/AskBarcelona”, says self-serving questions about tourism, moving, or travelling through the city belong in r/AskBarcelona, and only questions widely relevant to residents are allowed here. Rule 7, “Keep posts related to BCN // Les publicacions han d'estar relacionades amb BCN”, says posts must be directly related to Barcelona, and that includes the city, the province, the Àmbit metropolità, and the Àrea Metropolitana. So the people posting here are residents sharing things that matter to daily life in the city, and the moderators keep the tourist and newcomer traffic out on purpose.

The rule that decides most marketing outcomes here is “No spam, self-promotion or solicitations // No acceptem spam, autopromoció ni sol·licituds”, which bans advertising, self-promotion, and surveys outright. “Most questions (tourism,newcomers) go in r/AskBarcelona // La majoria de preguntes: r/AskBarcelona” matters too, because it sends self-serving questions, especially tourism and moving ones, to r/AskBarcelona and only keeps questions widely relevant to residents. “Keep posts related to BCN // Les publicacions han d'estar relacionades amb BCN” sets the topical boundary, since posts must be directly related to the city, the province, the Àmbit metropolità, or the Àrea Metropolitana. “Be nice // Sigues amable.” keeps discussion civil and reminds everyone this is a multilingual space where English, Catalan, and Spanish are all respected. “No discrimination is allowed // No tolerem cap forma de discriminació” bans negative generalizations about groups based on identity. Finally, “No images of people without their permission // No permetem imatges de persones sense el seu permís” blocks photos or videos of individuals posted without their consent, which is easy to trip when sharing street scenes.

For a founder, the honest answer is that this community is not a place to promote anything, so the only good post is one a resident would genuinely value. Think of something you learned from actually living or working in the city that helps other residents, like an observation about daily life that starts a real conversation. If you want to ask something, make sure it is widely relevant to residents and not about your own situation, because personal questions get moved to r/AskBarcelona. Write in whichever of the three languages fits you best, since the rules say people may use the language of their choice. And if your post includes any photo or video with people in it, get their permission first.

The fastest way to get removed is self-promotion, because rule 4, “No spam, self-promotion or solicitations // No acceptem spam, autopromoció ni sol·licituds”, prohibits any form of advertising, self-promotion, and surveys. Do not post a link to your product, a launch, a discount, or a survey asking residents for feedback, all of that falls under that rule. Do not ask self-serving questions here either, because rule 1 sends tourism, moving, and travel questions to r/AskBarcelona, and only questions widely relevant to residents stay. Do not post anything that is not directly about Barcelona or its wider metropolitan area, since rule 7 requires a direct connection. Do not post photos or videos of people without their consent, rule 6 is explicit about that. Do not make large negative generalizations about groups based on identity, rule 3 bans discrimination. And keep it civil per rule 2, attack ideas if you must but never other users, and respect whatever language someone chooses to write in, English, Catalan, or Spanish.

What stands out to me is how clearly this community separates residents from visitors: the very first rule routes anything personal to r/AskBarcelona, which means the bar for posting here is simply being one of the people who lives there. The trilingual setup in “Be nice // Sigues amable.” also tells me this is a real local room, not a tourist board, so the language you post in matters as much as the topic. For a founder, my honest read is that r/Barcelona is a place to be a neighbor first, and if you ever have something to share, it has to stand on its own as genuinely useful to people who live in the city.