r/Discord_Bots rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who build Discord bots and for people who need help with Discord bot related questions. The public description points people to a Discord server if they need help, so the room is practical and support minded. The rules say the subreddit is meant for Discord bot development, and every post must be about Discord bots. The people posting here are developers working on their own bots, people looking to hire or find someone to make a bot, and members answering questions from others. The description and rules together paint a picture of a working community where questions get answered and self promotion only lives inside those answers.

The rule that decides everything marketing related here is “No advertising.”. It says users may advertise their own bots, but only in response to others questions or concerns, and servers can only be shared in response to a question or topic, preferably support servers. Everything else counts as prohibited advertisement. “Posts must have bodies.” means a title alone gets removed, so any post you make needs a real body explaining what you need help with. “No low effort posts” asks for capitals, punctuation, and paragraphs in long posts, so sloppy one line posts are at risk. “Disclose whether an offer is paid or free” matters if you offer to build bots, because you must state clearly whether the offer is paid or free and give a price or estimate. “No 'Bot Support' Questions” rules out asking how to use an existing bot, since the community is for bot development. “All posts must be about Discord bots” keeps the topic narrow, and “Follow Discord ToS” bans encouraging or helping with anything that breaks Discord's terms, though asking whether something breaks the ToS is allowed.

The safest useful post here is a genuine question with a detailed body. Ask something specific about building a bot, like how to handle a technical problem in your development work, and write it with proper punctuation and paragraphs. That fits “Posts must have bodies.” and “No low effort posts” at the same time. The interesting opening for a founder is that advertising your own bot is allowed, but only when it is a response to someone else's question or concern. So the respectful play is to spend time answering other people's bot development questions, and mention your own bot only when it genuinely helps the person asking. If you offer to build bots for people, state clearly in the post whether the offer is paid or free, and give a price or an estimate. If your product has a support server, you can only share it in response to a question or topic, and the rules prefer support servers over random ones. Keep every post on topic, which here means Discord bots and nothing else.

Do not post a standalone advertisement for your bot, your product, or a server, because “No advertising.” only allows promotion as a response to someone else's question or concern. Do not drop a link with no explanation, because “Posts must have bodies.” will get it removed. Do not write in lowercase with no punctuation, because “No low effort posts” is aimed at exactly that. If you offer to build a bot for someone, never hint at pricing, because “Disclose whether an offer is paid or free” says the price must be stated or estimated, not implied. Do not ask how to configure or fix a specific existing bot, because “No 'Bot Support' Questions” sends those to the bot's own support server. Do not post about anything unrelated to Discord bots, and do not encourage or offer help with breaking Discord ToS, because “Follow Discord ToS” and “All posts must be about Discord bots” cover those.

What strikes me most is the pricing rule, because it is rare to see a community demand that bot builders state a price or estimate up front, and it tells you this room is full of real commission conversations. I also like that advertising your own bot is allowed at all, as long as it happens as an answer to someone's question. That flips the usual Reddit advice on its head, so instead of avoiding promotion you wait for the right moment to be genuinely useful. The bar is a real body with proper punctuation, which honestly filters out most lazy marketing before it starts.