A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/GetMotivated: 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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r/GetMotivated is a community for giving and receiving motivation. People share pictures, videos, text, music, AMAs, personal stories, and anything else they find motivating or inspiring. The description also invites people to ask questions, give advice, and form or join support groups. The tone is positive and encouraging, and the community even ends its welcome with a nudge to not spend too much time browsing, because you have better things to do. This is not a place built for founders or marketers. It is a place for people who want to get up and do what they know they need to do.
The first rule that decides everything is “All post must be tagged”. Every submission needs one of the listed tags at the start of the title, like [Discussion], [Text], [Image], [Tool], [Story], [Article], [Video], or [Meta]. A post without a valid tag gets removed. The second rule is “No advertising, fundraising, surveys or studies.”, which says advertising of services, products, apps, websites, or fundraisers is not allowed and that GetMotivated is not a platform to drive traffic to you or your friends. The third rule is “Posting rights require minimum qualifications.”, which means your account needs a minimum age and combined karma to post at all, and text posts need a minimum amount of content in the text box. There are no minimum requirements for comments. The fourth rule is “No walls of text or cross links allowed. Videos must be 3 minutes or less.”, which bans links to other posts or websites in the main post body and keeps videos short. The fifth rule is “No emojis”, because emojis trip the spam filter. The sixth rule is “Posts must be motivational.”, which lists what is encouraged, like motivational quotes with credit, charts and diagrams, original motivating content, and motivating screenshots. The seventh rule is “Comments must be on-topic”, which requires parent comments to be directly relevant and motivating to the original post. The eighth rule is “Titles should clearly explain the nature of the motivation.”, so a vague title is a bad title. There is also “Hate speech”, which bans racist, misogynistic, sexist, aggressive, or overtly offensive comments and can get commenters banned.
A good post here is genuinely motivational first and about you second. If you are a founder, the honest play is to share a short, real story or lesson that motivates others, tagged correctly, with no links and no product mentions. A [Discussion] post asking how people stay consistent, or a [Text] post with a short lesson you learned, fits the room. A [Tool] post about an improvement tactic can work if it is a tactic and not a product pitch. Keep it short and sweet, put the essence of the message in the title, and make sure the title clearly explains the nature of the motivation. Remember that posting requires a minimum account age and minimum combined karma, so build your account with comments first, since comments have no minimum requirements.
The fastest way to get removed is advertising. Any promotion of your service, product, app, website, or fundraiser is banned, and the rule says direct advertisement will be removed without notice. Links in the main post body are not allowed either, including links to other posts, websites, or channels, and off-site downloads are banned. Emojis get you filtered, so leave them out of titles and bodies. Walls of text are out, and videos must be three minutes or less. Missing or wrong title tags will get your post removed automatically. Low account age or low karma can also block your post under the minimum qualifications rule. In the comments, off-topic, malicious, or non-constructive remarks get deleted, and hate speech or harassment can get you banned at the mods' discretion. Progress pictures are not allowed here either.
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No. Rule “No advertising, fundraising, surveys or studies.” says advertising of services, products, apps, or websites is not allowed, and it points people to Reddit's built-in advertising system instead.
Yes, comments have no minimum requirements, so you can join discussions freely as long as your comments are on-topic, constructive, and motivating.
Rule “All post must be tagged” requires one of the listed tags at the start of your title, such as [Discussion], [Text], [Image], [Tool], [Story], [Article], [Video], or [Meta].
Rule “Posting rights require minimum qualifications.” says posting rights are restricted by minimum account age and combined karma, and posts need a minimum amount of text for context. There are no minimum requirements for comments.
Yes, rule “No emojis” says emojis trip the spam filter, so leave them out of posts and comments.
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