Can I share my career tool or website in a post?
Only if it is a career or path finding resource and the moderators have cleared it first, because rule 4 says outside career tools, resources and surveys should contact mods to be cleared.
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r/findapath rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/findapath: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 812,273
- Verified
- September 27, 2026
- Category
- Career and salary communities
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- Support, respect, and kindness are the Modus Operandi here!: - Comments should be supportive, kind, helpful, actionable, authentic, and targeted to people's needs. Regardless of the poster's situation or language used. - Posters, please upvote and comment "Helped!" or "Thank you!" to helpful comments so users will earn a flair point. - Please respect commenter's attempts to help with limited given information. - *Report* bad comments instead of commenting hateful retorts.
- Ask questions, be constructive, give actionable advice!: - Comments should be detailed, information driven, and include human, action-oriented advice to best aide the OP and readers in finding their path. Ask clarifying questions to get deeper information and assume ignorance over malice.
- Posts must include a Findapath element.: - All posts must include a *clear request* of the type of path the community can help you find. Please remove "calamitous verbiage". (E.g. wording such as "suicidal/wanna die", "I'm fucked for life" is unnecessarily cataclysmic/hopeless which conflicts with the idea of finding a path.) Focus on facts over feelings. - This rule does not apply to Positive posts of success or offering guidance posts. - A location (Country) is not required but very much helpful to mention in your post.
- Off Topic Post/Comment.: - Posts about relationship/financial/political/different topics are not allowed here. - If it's an offsite link to something related - it's ok. Not everything can be helped via a reddit post when it comes to career or general path finding. - Outside career tools, resources and surveys should contact mods to be cleared. We do not allow AI-only tools. - Picture additions are primarily for mod and specialist flaired people, but Findapath related pics ok. Nothing else allowed.
Works well
- A post that clearly states the path you are asking for, for example how to move from a hobby into a career, with the facts of your situation laid out plainly
- A guidance post where you share how you found your own path, since rule 3 says offering guidance posts do not need the path request element
- A success post describing a positive outcome, which the rules explicitly allow without the usual path request
- A comment that gives detailed, human, action-oriented advice and asks clarifying questions to understand the poster better
- A career related resource shared only after the moderators have cleared it through modmail
Avoid
- Posting a link to your career tool, resource, or survey without contacting the mods first, since rule 4 requires outside tools to be cleared
- Sharing an AI-only tool, which the rules say is not allowed
- Writing a post with hopeless wording like saying you are ruined for life, which rule 3 calls calamitous verbiage
- Posting without a clear request for the type of path you want help finding
- Dropping a link to your product with no connection to career or path finding, which fails the offsite link condition in rule 4
- Covering relationship, financial, or political topics, which rule 4 lists as off topic posts and comments
What r/findapath Is For
This community is for people who have a hobby, passion, pursuit, or life goal they want to make a living out of, but do not know how to get there. The whole point is that people ask for a path and the community helps them find one, so they can say they found a way to a better life. The people posting here are usually at a crossroads in their career or life direction and want concrete, actionable help. The description is explicit that kindness and support are required, with no hate or judgement allowed, and it even quotes the line be curious, not judgemental. It is part of the Reddit Safe Community Network, which tells you the moderators take the supportive culture seriously.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
Rule 3, “Posts must include a Findapath element.”, is the one that decides if your post survives at all, because every post needs a clear request for a path the community can help with. Rule 1, “Support, respect, and kindness are the Modus Operandi here!”, sets the tone, so anything that reads cold, judgy, or promotional in a pushy way will not fit. Rule 4, “Off Topic Post/Comment.”, is the gatekeeper for marketing, because outside career tools, resources and surveys must contact the mods to be cleared first, and AI-only tools are not allowed. Rule 4 also says offsite links are ok when they relate to career or general path finding, which is the narrow opening a genuinely helpful link could use. Rule 2, “Ask questions, be constructive, give actionable advice!”, matters most in the comments, where people expect detailed, human, action-oriented advice.
What To Post
A good post here starts with a clear, honest request for a path, written in plain facts rather than dramatic feelings. If you are a founder sharing something useful, the safest shape is a genuine question or a guidance post that helps someone figure out their next step, with your own experience offered as part of the answer. If you want to point to an outside career tool, resource, or survey, contact the mods first and get it cleared, because that is what the rules require. Offsite links are allowed when they are truly related to career or general path finding, so a link has to earn its place by being genuinely helpful to someone finding a path. When you comment, be detailed, kind, and action-oriented, and ask clarifying questions instead of assuming the worst. If a comment helped you, the poster is asked to reply with Helped! or Thank you! so helpful people earn flair points.
What To Avoid
Do not post without a clear request for a path, because that is the first thing that gets a post removed. Do not use hopeless or calamitous language, like saying you are ruined for life, because the rules ask you to remove that wording and focus on facts over feelings. Do not post about relationships, finances, politics, or other off-topic subjects, because those are not allowed here. Do not share an outside career tool, resource, or survey without contacting the mods first, and know that AI-only tools are not allowed at all. Do not add pictures unless they are Findapath related, since picture additions are mainly for mod and specialist flaired people. And in the comments, never respond to a bad comment with a hateful retort, because the rules ask you to report it instead.
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Common questions about r/findapath
Is my AI tool allowed if the mods approve it?
No, the rules state we do not allow AI-only tools, so an AI product link will not survive even with approval.
Can I include a link in my post at all?
Yes, rule 4 says if it is an offsite link to something related it is ok, meaning related to career or general path finding.
What does my post need to include to stay up?
It must include a clear request of the type of path the community can help you find, and it should focus on facts over feelings.
Do I need to say what country I am in?
No, rule 3 says a country is not required but mentioning one is very helpful for people giving advice.
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