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r/DataHoarder rules, stats, and what to post

A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/DataHoarder: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.

Members
1M
Community age
Created May 2013, 13 years
To post
No minimum in the rules
To comment
No minimum in the rules
Self-promotion
Banned
Links
Allowed with conditionsNo affiliate links allowed.
Showcase posts
Friday only
Promo risk
HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts

Checked October 21, 2026 from the community's public Reddit pages:

Check a post for r/DataHoarder

By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.

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Rule summary

  • Search the Internet, this subreddit and our wiki before posting: Search the internet, search the sub and check the wiki for commonly asked and answered questions. We aren't Google. Do not use this subreddit as a request forum. We are not going to help you find or exchange data, or find a deleted Youtube video. You need to do that yourself. If you have some data to request or share, you can visit r/DHExchange. This rule includes generic questions to the community like "What do you hoard?", "Download Deleted Youtube Video" & duplicate posts.
  • Keep it about datahoarding: Stay on topic. Do not bring up politics, basic tech support, or other things not related to datahoarding. This includes crystal ball predictions.
  • Be excellent to each other: Overly insulting or crass comments will be removed. Racism, sexism, or any other form of bigotry will not be tolerated. Following others around reddit to harass them will not be tolerated. Shaming/harassing others for the type of data that they hoard will not be tolerated (instant mod discretion ban). "Gatekeeping" will not be tolerated.
  • No memes or 'look at this old storage medium / Connection speed / Purchase': r/DataHoarder is not 'look at my connection speed' or "look at this Amazon purchase" or "Look at this old HDD" or "look at how many hard drives are showing up in my system". The Exception is for Free Post Fridays, so please save this type of content for Fridays.
  • Posts must include context/detail: Provide some context and info about what you are posting.
  • No unapproved sale threads, advertisement posts, or giveaways.: Hardware sales go to /r/homelabsales. Deals for Amazon/Newegg/etc are allowed, but no affiliate links. Companies contact the mod team for approval **before** advertising or doing giveaways. No sale threads, promotions, giveaways, assistance/fundraising requests, or surveys. No "look what I built" posts. This includes advertising websites, software, selling services or account sharing.
  • No AI generated slop or Cryptocurrency posts.: This sub is for Data Hoarders, not tech support for disk space cryptocurrency, for posting AI-generated content or Vibe-coded projects. This rule also includes posts asking about HDD prices affected by Cryptocurrency or AI bubbles.
  • We are not your personal archival army: Basic "archive this for me" posts are not appropriate here. You may request projects that have a very large possibility of becoming lost/destroyed, such as Sci-Hub, organizations that are in peril of Government shutdown, or an active crisis that should be archived. Requested projects should be meaningful to others, not just yourself.
  • r/techsupport exists.: r/Datahoarder is not a sub for tech support r/techsupport is for posts which could have been a google search, e.g. a post with CrystalDiskInfo screenshots with the title "is my drive ok?". Literally every question about SMART status. Audio recordings of "is this click noise normal?" More technical questions are allowed, e.g. "what is the optimal ZFS configuration of a 24 disk array" or "how else can i automate the archiving of this [thing]"
  • No requests, use r/DHExchange: No requests, use /r/DHExchange for that. /r/datahoarder is not a piracy sub.

Works well

  • A detailed writeup of how you archive and organize a specific kind of data, with real context about your setup and choices
  • A technical question like how to automate archiving of a particular source, asked after you have already searched the sub and wiki
  • A deep post about storage formats, redundancy, or long term preservation that teaches something and invites discussion
  • A free post friday share of a purchase, a milestone, or an old storage medium story
  • A post about a genuinely at risk archive project that is meaningful to others, not just you

Avoid

  • Posting a launch announcement, a link to your site, or a demo of your software
  • Dropping an affiliate link in a deals post
  • Running a giveaway or survey without contacting the mod team first
  • Posting AI generated content or a vibe coded project
  • Asking the sub to find, share, or archive data for you instead of using r/DHExchange
  • Posting a smart status screenshot or a basic tech support question instead of going to r/techsupport or searching first

What r/DataHoarder Is For

r/DataHoarder is a home for people who love collecting, storing, and preserving data, and the description says it plainly: a sub that brings data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people. The people posting here are hobbyists and professionals who think seriously about storage, backups, archiving, and keeping data alive for the long haul. The rules make it clear this is a discussion and craft community, not a help desk, not a marketplace, and not a request forum. If your work touches storage, archiving, backups, or digital preservation, and you have something genuinely useful to say about that craft, this is your room. If you want to promote something, it is not.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

The big one for any founder is “No unapproved sale threads, advertisement posts, or giveaways.”, which bans advertising websites, software, selling services, and account sharing, and says companies must contact the mod team before advertising or doing giveaways. “No AI generated slop or Cryptocurrency posts.” matters if your product touches AI, because AI generated content and vibe coded projects are out. “Search the Internet, this subreddit and our wiki before posting.” kills lazy questions and generic posts, so do your homework first. “Posts must include context/detail” means every post needs real substance, not a bare link or a one liner. “Keep it about datahoarding” keeps the room on topic, so no politics and no crystal ball predictions. “r/techsupport exists.” pushes basic tech support questions out, while genuinely technical questions stay. “No requests, use r/DHExchange” and “We are not your personal archival army” mean you never ask this sub to find, share, or archive data for you. Finally, “No memes or 'look at this old storage medium / Connection speed / Purchase'” restricts show and tell content to free post fridays.

What To Post

A good post here is a real contribution to the craft of data hoarding. Write up something you actually did, like how you organize, back up, or preserve a specific kind of data, and give enough context and detail that people can learn from it or push back on it. If you ask a question, search the sub, the wiki, and the internet first, and then ask something genuinely technical, like how to automate the archiving of a particular source, not something a search engine could answer. If your product relates to storage or archiving, you can talk about the problem you solved in a discussion, but the post itself has to be about the topic, not about you. And if you just want to show off a purchase or a shelf of drives, save it for free post fridays.

What To Avoid

Do not advertise anything, because “No unapproved sale threads, advertisement posts, or giveaways.” bans promoting websites, software, services, and account sharing, and companies must contact the mod team before advertising or doing giveaways. Do not post affiliate links. Do not post AI generated content or vibe coded projects, because “No AI generated slop or Cryptocurrency posts.” bans both, along with crypto and disk space cryptocurrency talk. Do not ask the sub to find or exchange data for you, because “Search the Internet, this subreddit and our wiki before posting” and “No requests, use r/DHExchange” both cover that, and requests belong in r/DHExchange. Do not post basic tech support, because “r/techsupport exists.” sends smart status screenshots and is my drive ok questions elsewhere. Do not post memes, purchase photos, or connection speed bragging outside free post fridays, because “No memes or 'look at this old storage medium / Connection speed / Purchase'” removes them. Do not post a look what I built project, a survey, a fundraiser, or an archive this for me request, and stay off politics and crystal ball predictions because of “Keep it about datahoarding”.

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Common questions about r/DataHoarder

Can I post about my product here?

No. The rules ban advertising websites, software, and selling services, and companies must contact the mod team for approval before advertising or doing giveaways.

Can I include an affiliate link?

No. Deals from stores like Amazon or Newegg are allowed, but affiliate links are not.

Can I ask people to try my new archiving tool?

Not as a post. A look what I built post is explicitly banned, and software promotion is banned too. You can only discuss the topic in a way that stays about data hoarding itself.

Can I post AI generated content or a tool I vibe coded?

No. The rules ban AI generated content and vibe coded projects outright.

Can I ask the community to archive something for me?

Only if the project has a very large possibility of becoming lost or destroyed and is meaningful to others, like an organization in peril. Personal archive requests are banned.

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