r/CoachingYouthSports rules, stats, and what to post

r/CoachingYouthSports is a community for sharing coaching tips, drills, and more for all sports. The people posting here are youth sports coaches, and likely assistant coaches and volunteers, who swap drills, ask for advice on handling youth sports related issues, and help each other get better at coaching kids. The rules say posts should focus on things like requesting or providing coaching tips and asking for advice on youth sports related problems. So the room is practical and hands on. If you coach a team, or you build things that help coaches, this is where those people talk shop.

The rule that decides most marketing questions is “No Spam/Advertisements”. It bans promotions and advertisements for apps, technology, camps, sports programs, and similar things, and it also bans repeatedly posting the same content. There is one carve out, and the rule spells it out: if you want beta testers or feedback for a new team management, film review, or similar app, you may post that request only in the “Requests for Feedback on Technology/Tools/Equipment Thread”. The second rule that matters is “No Off-Topic Posts”, which says posts and comments should focus on coaching youth sports, like requesting or providing coaching tips or asking for advice on youth sports issues. The third is “Post Title”, which requires descriptive titles and says sensationalized, clickbait, or non-descriptive submissions get removed. The fourth is “Video Description”, which says video submissions must come with a brief description. Finally, “Be Civil” matters if you get into comment debates, because fighting, name-calling, racism, sexism, and similar behavior can earn a temporary or permanent ban.

If you are a founder doing respectful Reddit marketing here, the honest path is to show up as a contributor first. Share a drill that worked for a team, or give genuine coaching tips, because that is exactly what the description says this place is for. If you have built a team management or film review app and you want feedback, the rules give you one safe home for that: the “Requests for Feedback on Technology/Tools/Equipment Thread”. Post your request there and nowhere else. When you post, write a descriptive title that says what the post actually contains, because clickbait and vague titles get removed. If you share a video, add a brief description of what is in it. Ask real questions about coaching problems, like handling a tricky youth sports situation, and answer other people's questions with useful detail.

The fastest way to get removed is posting a promotion or advertisement for your app, technology, camp, or sports program in the main feed, because “No Spam/Advertisements” bans that directly. Posting the same content over and over also counts as spam under that rule. Even if your intent is good, putting an app feedback request anywhere other than the “Requests for Feedback on Technology/Tools/Equipment Thread” is a mistake. A sensationalized, clickbait, or non-descriptive title gets your submission removed under “Post Title”. A video with no brief description gets removed under “Video Description”. Going off topic, meaning posting things unrelated to coaching youth sports, risks removal under “No Off-Topic Posts”. And if you argue in the comments, “Be Civil” warns that fighting, name-calling, racism, sexism, and similar behavior can lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

What stands out to me here is that the rules name the escape hatch right inside the spam rule, so you know exactly where app feedback belongs without having to guess. I also like that they demand descriptive titles and video descriptions, because that tells me the moderators want substance, not hype. If you coach or build for coaches, this reads like a room where one honest, useful post beats ten promotional ones.