r/branding rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for people who care about branding. The public description welcomes discussion about engaging applications, case studies, management techniques, and growing your brand. That means the room is full of designers, brand strategists, and founders who think about how a brand looks, feels, and grows. People come here to show real work, talk through brand decisions, and learn from how others built their brands. It is a discussion space first, not a marketplace.

Two rules decide everything here. The first is “Limit Self-Promotion”, which allows self-promotion inside comments only when it is sincere and relevant to the discussion, specifically when someone asks for help or advice and your content genuinely helps them. The same rule bans direct promotional posts outright and asks you to participate genuinely in the community before you promote anything. The second is “Article Posting”, which says any article you share must include either an excerpt or the full body of the content in the post itself, so people can engage without clicking away.

A good post here is a real discussion starter about branding. Write out a case study from your own work, share the full text or a solid excerpt of an article you wrote, or ask for input on a brand decision you are facing. If you write about your own brand or product, frame it as a case study or a lesson, not an announcement. In comments, you can share your own content when someone asks for help and your link genuinely answers their question. The pattern that works is to give the full answer in your own words first, then add the link as a supporting resource.

The fastest way to get removed is to create a post that promotes your own thing directly, because the rules say direct promotional posts are not allowed. The second common mistake is dropping an article link with no excerpt or body text in the post, which gets removed under the article posting rule. A third trap is commenting your link in threads where nobody asked for help, since the comment allowance only covers sincere and relevant help for someone's actual question. Promoting before you have participated genuinely in the community also goes against the stated rule.

This community has one of the clearer comment promotion policies I have seen, because it tells you exactly when a link is welcome, which is when someone asks and your content genuinely helps. The article rule is the one that trips people up, since sharing a bare link is removed even when the article itself is great. My honest read is that this is a room where you build trust first and share links second, and that order is not negotiable.