A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/cursor: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This is the community for Cursor, the AI code editor, and the people here code with AI every day. The description is short, the best way to code with AI, and the rules fill in the rest. Posts need to be relevant to Cursor or AI-assisted coding, and general AI coding discussions are welcome when they relate to how Cursor is used or developed. In practice that means developers sharing workflows, people asking for help with bugs and features, and folks giving feedback on the product. If you are a founder or marketer, this is a room full of people who care deeply about their coding tools, not a general startup or marketing audience.
Four rules decide most outcomes for a founder here. “Keep it relevant” means your post has to connect to Cursor or AI-assisted coding, and a general AI coding post is fine only if it relates to Cursor's use or development. “Limit self-promotion” allows sharing your own content if it is relevant and valuable, but no more than ten percent of your activity across Reddit can be self-promotional, and context must be provided in text posts. “No slop” bans AI generated content without substantial human input, low effort screenshots, and reposts, which is a high bar for anyone pasting in marketing copy. “Use flairs” requires every post to have the appropriate flair, and a post flaired as feedback must say what feedback you want, or it can be treated as spam. “No spam” also matters, because duplicate topics and surveys are removed, so search before you post.
Write a text post with real context, because that is what the rules reward here. A good shape is a genuine write-up of how you use Cursor for a specific job, what worked, what did not, and what you learned, all in your own words with real effort behind it. If you built something on top of or alongside Cursor, describe it honestly, explain why it matters to people who code with AI, and put the context in the post itself. If you have feedback on Cursor, follow “Provide context” with a clear description, steps to reproduce, screenshots or recordings when possible, and a Request ID if privacy mode is disabled. Pick the right flair, write a plain title that says exactly what the post is, and search first to make sure the topic has not been covered recently. Keep your own promotion to a small slice of your overall Reddit activity, and spend most of your time here just being a useful member of the discussion.
The fastest ways to get removed are posting AI generated text or low effort screenshots, because “No slop” bans both. Skipping your flair gets you removed under “Use flairs”. A vague rant about Cursor gets removed under “No rants”, and criticism is only welcome when it is specific and constructive. Posting your link with no context breaks “Limit self-promotion”, and promoting competing products in bad faith breaks it too. Surveys count as spam under “No spam”, and duplicate or repetitive posts get removed as well. Selling accounts, credentials, or products is banned under “No paid content”. Titles that are clickbait, all caps, or one word fail “Write quality titles”. Finally, being uncivil or provocative risks action under “Be civil”, and the mods say they watch posting histories.
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Yes, conditionally. “Limit self-promotion” says sharing your own content is acceptable if it is relevant and valuable, but it must be under ten percent of your total Reddit activity and text posts must include context.
No. “No paid content” says you cannot post paid content that you yourself own, and the community is a forum, not a shopping site.
Yes, if it relates to Cursor's use or development. “Keep it relevant” allows general AI coding discussions when they connect to Cursor.
No. “No slop” bans AI generated content without substantial human input, and “No spam” counts surveys as spam.
No. “Use flairs” says all posts must have the appropriate flair, and unflaired posts risk removal.
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