r/ConstructionTech rules, stats, and what to post

This community is a place for construction professionals to talk about new tech in the field. Think of it as a room where people who actually work in and around construction discuss the tools, software, and gadgets showing up on their job sites. The people posting are practitioners, so they care about what works on a real site, not what sounds good in a pitch deck. The single rule, “Rule 1.”, sets the tone. No advertising, no market research, no AI created content. This is a discussion space for people with real experience, not a channel for promotion.

There is one rule here and it does a lot of work. It is called “Rule 1.” and it says no advertising, no market research, and no AI created content. Every decision about whether your post survives comes back to that single line. If your post is promotional, it goes. If your post is really a survey or a research question dressed up as a discussion, it goes. And if your post was written by a language model rather than by you, it goes.

A good post here is your own honest words about technology in construction, shared with no strings attached. Write it yourself, in your own voice, because AI created content is banned. Share what you learned using a tool on a project, or ask a genuine question about how others handle a workflow. Talk like a person who has been on a job site, not like a company talking point. If you built something in the space, you can discuss the problem you were trying to solve and what you learned, as long as the post carries no advertising, no link pushing people to buy, and no survey questions. The safest shape is a plain text story or question that would be interesting to read even if you sold nothing.

Three things get posts removed here. First, advertising, so any promotional material or advertisement is out. Second, market research, so do not post surveys or research questions, even friendly ones, because moderators treat them as research. Third, AI created content, so make sure everything you post is written by you in your own words. There is also a general principle hiding in the first two, that this community can tell when a post is really marketing wearing a helpful costume, so avoid anything that walks like a pitch.

The rule that catches my eye is that AI created content is banned, not just discouraged. That is a real signal about what this room values, so if you use a writing tool to draft your post, this is the wrong place to paste it. I also notice there are no observed top posts to learn from, which tells me the bar is simply this, write like a human, about tech on a real jobsite, and nothing that smells like a pitch.