A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/computers: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
Checked November 1, 2026 from the community's public Reddit pages:
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This is a general discussion community about computers. Reading the rules, you can tell most people come here for practical help and honest conversation about hardware, software, and everyday computing problems. The rules ask for system specifications in help posts and a solved flair once the problem is fixed, so the heartbeat of the place is question and answer, not product launches. You will also find people sharing knowledge about operating systems and setups, as long as they give specifics rather than vague suggestions.
Start with “Meaningful Contributions”, which says stay on topic and drop useless comments, and with “Remember the Human”, which removes rude comments. “Clear Communication” asks you to avoid slang so advice is understood by everyone. For anything you post with a link or a product angle, “Self-Promotion” is the one that decides your fate, and “Solicitation” and “Sales” close the doors around it. If you give advice, “Verify Your Information” removes clearly wrong or speculative answers, and “Specificity is Required” means alternative suggestions need the specific choice and the reasoning. “Authentic Help” prohibits AI-generated text guides or troubleshooting steps, which matters a lot if you draft posts with tools. “Steering Help Requests to DMs” bans pulling help seekers into private messages, “Personal Security” bans doxxing and posting ages, and “Thread Preservation” asks you to keep solved posts up with the solved flair. Finally, “Help requests need to include details” requires system specifications in any tech support post.
Post real questions with real details, following the rule that asks for your operating system, CPU, GPU, and RAM in the body. Post answers you have actually verified, written in your own words with no AI text. If someone asks a question that your instructional video or personal content answers directly, you may link it as a direct and relevant response to that specific question, and nothing more. Share clear explanations, specific recommendations with your reasoning, and experiences that stay on topic. Add the required flair to every post, and keep solved posts up so others benefit.
Do not spam links to your blog, social media, or unsolicited videos, because “Self-Promotion” bans them unless they directly answer a specific question. Do not beg for money, donations, or free hardware, because “Solicitation” forbids it. Do not post sales listings or price checks, because “Sales” says this is not a marketplace. Do not post AI-generated text guides or troubleshooting steps, because “Authentic Help” prohibits them. Do not hedge with vague guesses, because “Verify Your Information” removes clearly wrong information and discourages speculative wording. Do not suggest switching operating systems without the specific choice and your reasoning, because “Specificity is Required” asks for exactly that. Do not ask for or share ways around device management systems, because the security evasion rule in the prohibited content section bans it. Do not steer people to private messages, because “Steering Help Requests to DMs” bans it. Do not state your age, because “Personal Security” calls it a security risk and bans users under thirteen. And do not delete your post once it is solved, because “Thread Preservation” wants it kept with the solved flair.
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No. “Self-Promotion” says you may link to instructional videos or personal content only if it is a direct and relevant response to a specific user question. So the link only survives when someone asked for exactly what you have.
The safest way is to stop promoting entirely and just help people, because promotion is banned here and the moderator one-liner says promotion gets removed. If you mention what you built in passing while genuinely answering someone, keep it plain and relevant.
Yes, every post needs a flair, because the moderator one-liner says posts without flair are removed. Pick the one that matches your post before you submit.
You must include your operating system, CPU, GPU, and amount of RAM in the body of the post, per the rule titled “Help requests need to include details”.
Follow “Remember the Human”, stay on topic, write clearly without slang, verify what you claim, and never ask for money or free hardware under “Solicitation”. Do that and you are behaving like the member they want.