r/ethdev rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people who build on Ethereum. The public description covers contracts, dapps, wallets, clients, infrastructure, tooling, UIs, and patterns, so the room is full of developers talking about the actual work of building things on Ethereum. The people posting here are smart contract developers, dapp builders, and tooling makers who want technical discussion, not pitches. The rules make the boundaries very clear. It is Ethereum only, it is not a job board, and it is not a place to advertise paid projects. If you build on Ethereum or its L2s, this is your room. If you build anywhere else or you came to sell, it is not.

Four rules decide everything here, and I will take them in order. “No Advertising” says this sub is not an ad platform to shill your paid project or shady exchange, so any post built around selling something is dead on arrival. “Ethereum Only” bans Solana, Cardano, and other non ethereum chains, though L2s explicitly built with Ethereum mainnet as their L1 are ok. “Not a Job Board” means you cannot post hiring notices or look for work here. “AI Slop” bans AI generated content, which tells you the moderators have seen a flood of machine written posts and are tired of it. If your post clears all four, you are in the clear as far as the written rules go.

A good post here is a technical discussion about building on Ethereum, written by you, in your own words. If you are a founder, the winning shape is to share something you learned while building. A pattern you discovered in your contract code, a tooling problem you solved, a wallet integration headache you worked through. If you built a tool, you can talk about the technical problem it solves as long as it is free and the post stands on its own as useful discussion, not a pitch. The AI slop rule matters more than people expect, so write every post yourself and make it sound like a person who actually ships code. Keep every topic on Ethereum or an L2 built on Ethereum mainnet.

The removal triggers here are unusually explicit, so this is easy to list. Advertising a paid project or a shady exchange gets you removed under “No Advertising”. Discussing Solana, Cardano, or any other non ethereum chain gets you removed under “Ethereum Only”, with the one exception of L2s built on Ethereum mainnet. Job listings and hiring posts get removed under “Not a Job Board”. AI generated content gets removed under “AI Slop”. The policy brief confirms all four, so there is no ambiguity about what gets taken down.

What strikes me most is the “AI Slop” rule, because it is a blunt, four word warning that this community has clearly been flooded with machine written posts and has run out of patience. That changes the calculus for founders more than anything else here, since even a genuinely useful post dies if it reads like it came out of a prompt. I also respect how precise the “Ethereum Only” rule is, drawing the line at L2s built on Ethereum mainnet rather than banning L2 talk entirely. My honest read of the evidence is that this is a room of working developers, and the only way in is to be one of them.