r/homeownerstips rules, stats, and what to post

r/homeownerstips is a community for tips and ideas for homeowners everywhere. People come here to share how to improve their home life and to talk about the best products for the house. The people posting are homeowners asking for help and homeowners sharing what worked for them. The tone the moderators ask for is patient and helpful, because everyone there is looking for help at some level.

There are three published rules and one of them decides almost everything for a founder. The first is “No Promotional Content (Spam)”, which says no promotional content, ever. That word ever is doing a lot of work here. The second is “Follow the Rules of Reddit”, which means the sitewide rules apply on top of anything the subreddit adds. The third is “Be kind”, which asks everyone to be patient with people who know less than them. The moderators also state plainly that they remove promotional content, spam, and unkind comments.

A good post here is a genuine tip or a genuine answer, with no link and no pitch attached. Write up something you learned fixing or improving your own home and share it as plain text that helps someone even if they never hear your company name. Answer other people's questions in the comments with real detail and no strings attached. If you want to mention a product, describe your own experience with it in plain words rather than promoting it, and when in doubt leave the brand out. The community rewards being the helpful homeowner, not the helpful vendor.

Do not post promotional content of any kind, because the rule bans it ever, not just sometimes. Do not share links to your product or spam your stuff, since the survival guidance is explicit that this gets you removed. Do not talk down to people who know less than you, because “Be kind” covers that and the moderators say they remove unkind comments. And do not break the sitewide rules of Reddit, because that is its own rule here.

The word ever in “No Promotional Content (Spam)” is the strictest phrasing I have seen in a while, and I would take it at face value. There are also no observed top posts for this community yet, so I cannot tell you what a win looks like here, only what a loss looks like. My honest read is that this is a pure help-first room where any whiff of a pitch ends the conversation. Show up as a homeowner who fixes things, not as a founder who sells things.